I mean, how hard can it be to make your own media industry? It's not like it's competitive or difficult or anything.

Well, I hate to burst this bubble, but this isn't true. Women and men go to the movies in about equal numbers. Women actually go slightly more than men.

Women may not be going to the movies in drones because it's dangerous. I prefer a car when I head to the movies. Sometimes I walk, if it strikes* my fancy.

You're ignoring how this stuff is entirely directed at women and girls. And how it's a perfect example of rape culture at work.

Yes. Volunteering at the damn Olympic games isn't the same as consenting to be photographed with the knowledge that the photographs will be publicly distributed with your identity attached to them. Existing in the world as an attractive* woman shouldn't be considered justification for infiltrating someone's privacy…

Oh, you mean White Southerners, don't you? Because this is about how some White Southerners enslaved, beat, raped and murdered Black Southerners, all under the name of that flag.

So, because racism is a fact of life, state governments should endorse it? I think we're capable of moving past it, as a species.

Why don't you make a pretty picture out of the words of your former Vice President, Alexander Stephens:

" yet growing up in the south it was just kind of a casual thing."

It's not "you lost, get rid of the flag" it's "you fought to keep slavery legal, get rid of the flag".

What symbol is acceptable to you for someone from the South to show their pride in broad fabric quilt of culture that is the South?

You act as if black people were perfectly fine and dandy after slavery was over, as if lynching, race-based terrorism, the KKK, convict leasing, race-based massacres, and Jim Crow didn't happen in almost every goddamned county in the South.

Most Southroners (spelled as it is pronounced) did not own slaves, did not originate from families that owned slaves and are not overtly racist.

I find it interesting that you say "aren't overtly racist" instead of just "aren't racist." By using the word Overtly, you're saying that most southerners are racist, but are just good at hiding it.

"Protecting their way of life." What a euphemism.

For the same reason New Yorkers do not show their pride by celebrating the people that butchered Catholics by the thousands. For the same reason Oklahoma doesn't have parades and flags and celebration of wiping out Indians from whole regions of the state.

"Being proud of your Southern heritage does not mean that you are racist or condone slavery."

We know what the Confederacy stood for and we went to a great deal of trouble to defeat that. Try as they might, the contemporary South can not divorce the Confederacy from its legacy of slavery. This is not something to be proud of.

"Don't like rape? don't get raped"