Ok, we seem to be on the same page. Just an additional point: Americans won’t criticise European countries for its rape culture, either. I’ve not heard shit said by Jezzies about Paris or Marseille, where rape, especially in the banlieues, is definitely a problem.

His first mistake: being a misogynist director.

Then why are Americans such money-obsessed, sexist assholes?

Many, if not most people, don’t believe what happened at Steubenville was actually rape. Also co-reference what happened to that poor girl in California (gang raped and filmed), in Virginia, Columbia, that boarding school in Connecticut. In Europe, we have the banlieues in Paris and Marseille and New Year’s in…

You’re very naive. Brazil has never respected equality for women and minorities, especially for those with relatively little education. As for American culture, if it is just evangelical politicians who are to blame, then tell me why American men AND women keep voting for the same people, blaming women when they’ve…

Then where are your criticisms of Germany or the USA?

I re-read the original study (http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=6328), not the one that’s somewhat misquoted: it’s essentially a computational linguistic study, in which the researcher compares the use of “I feel like” in Anglophone men and women in different age groups. There’s no consideration of socioeconomic…

It’s based on my experience in the classroom. I do hear it occasionally from men, but not as much as I do from women.

Given that women throughout history have been taught to couch their language in platitudes and niceities, I doubt that you can prove that “I feel” is only limited to capitalistic societies. One need only trace this language to women in Early-Modern Korean and European societies, just to name a few.

Agreed. I have a problem with the “I feel” language because it is generally gender biased, i.e., women are expected to use it more than men. Using “I believe” and “I feel” in the contexts which you’ve given is entirely correct.

Not just ANY social beings — women. They’re taught from birth to couch their thoughts into “feelings” instead of assertively expressing an opinion. Women use “I feel” and “I think” MUCH MORE than men do.

Not to mention that all of the focus on racism is “POC,” i.e., black folks, rather than, say, the Native people who’ve suffered systematic genocide in addition to slavery and forced assimilation. Discussing “POC” is, in fact, racist because it reduces the various minorities to one single ethnic group, not to mention…

Amy Schumer is still a woman. She doesn’t and won’t get the same level of privacy that a man would. No woman does.

Yeah, but the dirty secret that no one wants to openly discuss is that Blacks, i.e., POC, treat women like total shit. Basically how any other ethnic group on the planet treats women.

And I suppose that Native Americans and Latinos don’t count among your limited view? Not all of them are “POC."

But everyone believes the guy. As Ad Infinitum says, “...because bitches lie.” (Sarcasm.) Women are taught in our society that being liked is everything. So, if a rape victim wants to press charges against her rapist, she risks upsetting the apple cart.

American unis have their own police force/campus patrol. Although technically it should go to the city police, most universities will pressure victims into keeping it “in house” with the false hope of seeing some justice. (Basically, they say to the victims, “Well, do you really want to go through a trial? Think of…

Nothing’s changed. The only difference between the 1970s and today is putting lipstick on a pig. Many sexual assaults go unreported and of those few that are, most people refuse to believe the woman because she drank, she fucked, she wore a miniskirt, he’s on the football team....

Normally, I don’t post on Jezebel (just lurk), as I think the majority of posters here are closet misogynists/anti-feminists, but you’re among the FEW that have made a valid point concerning this story. What you’ve written here will not be popular, but it is spot on.