Yes, it deserves equal contempt, because it shows equal selfishness/obliviousness.

I see men offer their seat all the time, with much more frequency than women. Maybe it is different in different cities?

I'm relatively tall and well-muscled, so that gives me an advantage in that I am physically closer in size to these guys than many fellow women. I find bustling them out of my space (making use of heavy messenger bag) while barking "Move your legs!" in a drill sargeant-ish voice works. Or sometimes I smile…

Oh, I like this.

I think it's a form of primitive magic. Like, if you see her boobies, you draw her power into yourself. Like eating part of an animal to take on its characteristics (as one does). The more powerful or privileged the victim, the better.

Yes, there IS something tragic about them... it's weirdly painful to see, like, "Come on, guys, take that next step! Sure, you will lose your claim to certain privileges, but you'll also jettison so much bullshit!"

I know, I just finished writing a way too detailed response to someone who is probably an MRA troll (http://jezebel.com/5967745/?post=55180732) and it made me very thoughtful about this whole internet commenting forum business and feminism and the post-feminist backlash and so on, and then...WAVING BEAVER. It…

Look, I know that you know what it means, and I know why you want me to have to define it. I've seen your comments, and I can see from the way that you clearly disapprove of feminism and yet come repeatedly onto Jezebel to comment, that you are likely not really interested in what any of us have to say, only in…

You keep on using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Yeah, it's super intolerant to tell people how to define their womanhood.

No, I swear it's true! Women really can be misogynists.

I agree, it's super insulting to men.

Oh dear no, pookums: women can be misogynists, too.

Right, but that's not what she was comparing. She was comparing the way we will buy and sell images of an unwilling subject, sexualizing them without their consent, forcing them into a position of object/victim. It's definitely part of the same culture as the one that tells poor women that their only market value is…

It's the back-up singers. You can see the one with tied-back hair sings first (the time Solange looks away from the mic at 2:40 from the end) and later it's the one in cream and green singing while she sings over top. They are just well-matched back-up singers, and it's a simple song.

You think nonsense, awkward juxtaposition and corniness make for a bad viral video campaign? Uh...Rebecca Black.

My mother has an anecdote about a friend who was a waitress. When she walked out, her line was, "I'm leaving, and I'm taking the bartender with me." Which she did, since they were dating each other at the time.

Woody Allen has that joke about the two old women in the Catskills:

YES! Also, the day I realized they had mapped the entire planet and there would be no undiscovered islands where I could rule in juvenile tyranny.

It's the sweetness of their interaction with their mothers, too. God, it kills me.