Yeah, I am sceptical of the kind of feminism in which a woman choses to have a baby even though she is completely unprepared emotionally, financially and psychologically, where a woman is utterly dependent on other people (in this case her parents), and where she has to spend most of her day breastfeeding her child or…

Yeah, except for the fact that these are children having other children, that they are immature, hormonal and that their brains have not yet developed fully, which means they are prone to making shit decisions and being irresponsible (as teenagers are wont to do), everything would be just peachy!

I totally agree that mothers of all ages should be given society’s full support. However, women don’t have the least trouble getting pregnant or carrying healthy babies to term as teens – very much the opposite.

If your goal is to shut down dialog on the issue, then I can’t support it. Just because you have an intense reaction to what someone like Greer says, it doesn’t follow that we shouldn’t all be sitting down for a second and saying, “Well, wait, what IS she saying?” before we dismiss it.

The two seem to share a kind of gender essentialism in which biology, and the experiences that often result from that biology, determine gender identities. It’s a weird and inconsistent perspective, particularly for second-wave feminists like Greer, whose ideologies are ostensibly underpinned by deconstructing the…

Are you a lesbian? If not, I’d appreciate it if you wouldn’t speak for us on these matters. A segment of the transgender population, be they MtF or FtM, are hostile to lesbians in the extreme. You know why butch lesbians have a beef with FtM people? For one, they are criticized for not transitioning because not…

Ageism is alive, well, and applauded. Self-examination is a good thing for everyone.

OK THANKS DUDE! HEY EVERYONE, LOOK AT THIS STUPID ASSHOLE AND HIS DUMB OPINIONS!! HE THINKS HIS CONTEMPT TOWARD WOMEN IS PERFECTLY ACCEPTABLE WHEN HE RATIONALIZES IT IN EASILY DISMISSABLE LEGAL BULLSHIT. KEEP THINKING BITTERLY THAT YOU’RE A NICE GUY; WHY DON’T WOMEN LIKE MEEEE??????! I LIKE TYPING IN ALL CAPS BECAUSE…

And who cares about an (often female) survivor so long as tons of money and effort can be spent on a man so he can redeem himself? You know who is really important here? Men. Stop with your silly girl concerns.

He wasn’t even convicted of actually raping this girl. So he raped her and no jail time but we’re supposed to cue the violins because he has to register (not even lifetime) as a sex offender and can be removed at a relatively young age?

I guess what I’m trying to say is that redemption may be a useless concept to someone who has the ability to skate through life on the advantages and privileges he was born with, because the world will always tell him that he’s the ideal. I’m not trying to dehumanize him. If he feels genuine remorse - which is not…

I do have a happy life now. But I can’t unring that bell; I don’t know what I would have been like had I never been raped. It’s not that I can’t get over it; it’s that I had to do a shitton of work to get there that I should never have had to. And my rapist suffered not at all.

YEP. Me, too. I won’t go out with a guy unless I can google his name and find an electronic footprint that indicates it’s a real name, and no indicia that he’s raped anybody. I avoided going out with a guy who was recently convicted on child porn charges this way. I’m sure he would have been in jail still if his…

Perhaps you can recognize that you don’t speak for all victims, and yours is not the only experience a victim can have. I strongly object to using the word “ruined” with regards to rape victims, but many do suffer lifelong harm or find their lives derailed by the trauma. There are lifelong consequences for many rape…

You’re assuming that the main point of penalties is to punish, when in reality they are to protect potential victims were the offender not restricted. To hell with this sack of shit; if he was okay raping a girl to win a contest, he clearly has compromised judgment and a failure of morals and is a danger to others. I…

Rape is the only crime that is pretty much exclusively motivated by deriving pleasure and power from inflicting pain on someone else. There are other crimes that sometimes are, but rape is unique in that there isn’t another logical objective. IMO it says a lot more about a person’s character than a crime motivated by…

1. No one said he is a pedophile.. they said he is a rapist. He is.

“Having to move when you don’t want to and not being able to attend a PTA meeting is so much worse than being raped,” said no one, ever.

Murderers are statistically unlikely to murder again, while most rapists are serial rapists.

This. He raped for a contest.