They honestly think they’re “owed” sex by any woman (or man, if they’re gay) whom they happen to fancy. And if said person doesn’t hand it over after the insertion of however many “friendship coins” that the guy deems sufficient, well, time to just take it. It’s all the victim’s fault for not wanting to jump on his…

I didn’t coin this phrase, but a quick Google search uncovers this explanation of the phenomenon:

Perhaps a more accurate, less hyperbolic title should have been :

God, io9 has gone downhill. This whole dumb article, like almost everything on Gawker these days, is just narcissistic virtue signaling. You know these idiot writers get giddy every time an opportunity arises to indicate to their mass audience how not-racist, not-sexist, not-homophobic, anti-imperialist and…

I think if you’re going to lead with something as vulgar as “Rudyard Kipling was a racist fuck and Jungle Book is imperialist garbage” you have to balance it out with a more intellectually robust analysis. You might have a sound point but without a substantial argument, it just comes across like empty trolling.

I would say ‘cadging’ also has a hint of ‘constantly and tediously persuading other people to give/buy you things’.

Putting this “oh noes Germans are doing it again” spin on modern stories is kinda hilarious for us outside the US since the US is currently maybe going to elect a right wing meglomaniac with weird hair as President. RIght now. :)

This is not segregation. You don’t know what segregation is. That is the problem here. This is like affirmative action. It’s a redistribution of access to a public resource to a group that has been historically disenfranchised of that resource. If you understand the difference between segregation and affirmative…

But its so much easier to shove women into their own car that it would be to actually make sexual assault illegal and prosecute it. That just smack of effort.

Yes. Because It’s the same as throwing spitballs at each other. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I feel the same way, which is why I’m conflicted. Maybe the jezzies can help me out to reconcile my feelings about this. I know I’m going to get yelled at for this and I am open to hearing arguments for/against, but I don’t agree with prostitution, stripping, camgirls, etc. because it feeds into the idea that women…

Couldn’t it be that more women are hesitant to endorse a practice - legality aside - where they are especially vulnerable to the violence of human males?

THIS...SO MUCH THIS! Say a person is mugged. No one says, “well, we do not have both sides yet, let’s wait and hear the [alleged] mugger’s side of the story first.” Somehow, sexual harassment, sexual assault, and rape are different. No sympathy for the victim. Oh yeah, and the dad seems like a real winner as well. I…

You should probably tell the same thing to the basketball team since they were the first to wear t-shirts and publicly support someone who was involved in an ongoing enquiry. How does a university’s sports team, as representatives of the university, have any place taking the side of a student who was expelled by the…

A) due process is a term that references legal proceedings. These are not legal proceedings.

“Yale Men’s Basketball fully supports a healthy, safe and respectful campus climate where all students can flourish. Our recent actions to show our support for one of our former teammates were not intended to suggest otherwise ...”

What is REALLY horrifying is that this is not the least bit surprising. I used to work with police officers and they would talk about pulling over “hot” women for what they called a “PC” - a “p*ssy check”. Rape is far beyond that, but the attitude of using power to have access to women is prevalent.

Happy International Women’s Day.

Yup. This is exactly the issue. We can do all kinds of hand-wringing and breast-beating about Them Damn Millennially-Whatsits, but the reality is society has pitched an aspirational lifestyle forever, saturating their lives in ways that I didn’t experience (Gen-X; when I used a computer in school, computers were for…

Why does autocorrect keep changing “car was dirty” to “sexual assault”? Stupid autocorrect.... :/ Seriously, I don’t see how the typo argument could be taken seriously with the large number of “sexual assault” tickets.