I'll happily concede that point :)

Yeah. I can tell.

Yeah, calling a woman an asshole when she wouldn't put up with people who put her at greater risk for harassment is super classy.

Um, yeah, that's why it's called a metaphor. You DID, against her stated wishes, say that you were willing to do something that MLA felt would increase her risk from this well-known harasser, despite her express request that you not do it. Exactly like my "friend" did. You can have your own thoughts about what that…

I think that's the rub in the narrative though. Caleb wasn't the hero. He was the stormtrooper. Y'know, the expendable helper drone whose thousands of deaths we never think to care about? We kept thinking he was the hero, and he's really not. The movie kind of threw in our face that the only thing he COULD be in this…

To be fair, if MLA has her own space on the internet and feels that feeding her trolls encourages them, you have no standing to say she CAN'T ban you. It's her space. You've stated you're going to make her life more difficult if you feel like it, no matter what she says. She has every right to ban you.
Hey, I had a…

Considering I'm 38, I don't think it's generational. I think it might be a fed-up threshold, and everybody's got a right to their level and their own calculations of the costs of retaliation. What I do stand for, though, is that evidence seems pretty clear that being female w/ opinion on the internet results in…

Ugh, I didn't get why it was so beloved, why people idolized it and sang its praises so much and thought about it so much and were such avid fans. Bleh. Okay, it was charming. It became the icon of training montages. But it never seemed to DIE.

This is how I felt for the entire Rocky franchise. Welcome to the world of "stories that are not about me."

As a lady on the internet, I'll totally cop to having lost my patience with misogynist trolls. It's such an overwhelming tide of abuse, I seldom look closely any more. Mostly because I don't have the time and secondly because it's disheartening. I have a few folks I trust who are thoughtful advocates for men and I…

I dunno. I think placing women as a machine eliminates the comfortable excuses for women's behaviors. Especially when we actually begin thinking of her as an autonomous being, which is apparently easier if she's actually a machine. The hero of the story might feel betrayed by Ava leaving him, for deceiving him that…

When we make essentialist statements about "feminine wiles," we might be identifying what any logical being would cultivate to get out of the prison she was born into and the assumptions of her captors.

He hasn't earned much of a right to live, either. Ava wanted to escape. She does not achieve that objective by putting herself into the hands of someone without the moral chops to a) stand up to his icon when he's an abusive douche or b) free other imprisoned robots (her friends) when he had the chance. Ava gave him…