“Viagra is used to treat a medical disorder. You are not equating menstruation with a medical disorder, are you?”

We should do it though. If we don’t, we’re selfish bitches. But once we do we better not expect government aid of any kind. Cause after all it was entirely our decision and no one forced us into it. :/

Wow. That poem captures that rape is not Law and Order with a menacing narrative. It’s like, you are living your life, a day or an evening and then you were raped. And you put it back together and take it apart to see how you missed the clues and the cues that this is going to happen. And it’s not some thing that has…

Such bullshit. These are just excuses for allowing dangerous men to get off with minimal punishment. A person who thinks a passed out women is an object for him to act out his sexual urges, and whose main reaction to his actions is a loss of appetite is not being rehabilitated by having his summer inconvenienced (but…

But many of these people were people she would have met with already, money or no money. The list of 85 people includes multiple Nobel Peace Prize winners, Ben Affleck and George Clooney (who unfortunately get lots of access in Washington for their activist activities already), etc.

No, but it shows how shitty gender binary is when it comes to defining classes for athletic competition as well as just about everything else.

Not really. She’s intersex. She’s not fighting her body to feminize it by taking hormones, but she’s not supplementing her body either through doping. She just is existing as herself. It’s tricky as fuck. There’s a reason men and women have separate categories for racing, and unfortunately there isn’t an in between or…

Why don’t we talk about men’s speaking habits? Why do we talk so much about women’s?

Here’s the thing: Hillary Clinton is not the only politician with middling oratory skills. But the men who are weak speakers don’t get called out the same way that the women do. THAT is the problem. It’s the disproportionality. If men and women are both doing something, but it’s overwhelmingly the women who are…

He isn’t - but we don’t talk about him. Why?

Think about the fact that we all have hidden bias and consider whether we REALLY hold men and women to the same standards. We don’t. I am a woman and I still have anti-woman bias. I accept that and it helps me look out for it.

1) Frankly, people are not competent to judge what motivates their own biases by introspection. You have no clue that your bias is not motivated by gender associations and can at best hope that that’s not the case.

Well, no.

How do you point out she isn’t inspiring/particularly good at speaking without sounding sexist?

You realize that there is no rational basis for your dislike of intonation patterns, right? Every language and dialect has its own set of intonation ma that serve various functions and disliking them is essentially the same as disliking people for, say, having curly hair, or an accent, or whatever.

She’s not a great orator. She’d be the first to tell you that. I listened to a podcast recently (I think it was the 538 one) that talked about the fact that a lot of what she’s GREAT at (building consensus, one-on-one interactions, bringing people over to her side, quietly commanding the respect of everyone who deals…

LOL. Sure, because people’s preferences and opinions just materialize out of thin air, and aren’t shaped at all by other people or media or the culture at large. That sounds correct.

Whether or not you find it irritating is completely fucking irrelevant. The issue is that—SOMEHOW—only the women are ever criticized for their vocal patterns. There’s never any hate mail about men’s voices. It’s disproportionate. That is sexism in action.

Yes, her oratory skills are not the best and certainly it can be mentioned. But it’s interesting that she is only being compared to the best of the best and not to people in similar positions. Bernie Sanders screams all the time, Donald Trump is terrible, Ben Carson is the worst, Ted Cruz? Jeb Bush? Rand Paul? If you…

I definitely think Sullivan fell into the trap of double standards when it comes to men and women speaking.