Totally, completely agree that most of what the TSA does is bullshit. But that's just it - blanket bullshit. Not transphobic (trans-ist?) bullshit. If I were trying to get something onto a plane I would use a kid, or my grandma, or someone in a wheelchair, precisely because we have a natural aversion to suspecting…

See, to me, discrimination implies some kind of hatred or mistrust towards a particular group. What I think most people are responding to is that in many cases, this sounds more like basic stupidity/lack of education. To get furious that a low-wage federal security employee who holds a job that doesn't require much…

The TSA often gives increased scrutiny to wheelchairs and prosthetics. Yes, this greatly inconveniences disabled people, and some of them get quite upset. Others accept that it is yet another thing that they have to deal with in a world that isn't designed for them, but simply does its best to accommodate them.

Yeah and if it's artificial it warrants another look. Now they could handle the human side better but, that's just the TSA being dicks like they are to EVERYONE so I'd say they were almost more equal than anywhere else.

This is it exactly, and it's what makes you an actual nice guy, rather than a self-declared, entitled "nice guy".

I was going to say that I don't think you know what "strawman" means. But I've come to the conclusion that you don't know what "journalist" means either, rendering this entire conversation moot.

No, you're totally right. Woman and fat people don't deserve to be treated like humans because they haven't EARNED IT yet. This grants men agency over their bodies, because they're too stupid to know what to do with them.

I was mentioned by name in a suicide note by a boy I'd turned down. While I feel badly for his death, I do not, cannot and WILL NOT take blame for his actions because I refused to date him. I am so sick of this idea that men are owed a date/kiss/blowjob/anything just because they want it. Nobody owes anybody…

I would agree that it should apply to asshats and trolls, as well.

Yeah those journalists! Grr. They should've kept their mouths shut about horrible working conditions and slave labor and police corruption and the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. They never should have published the Federalist Papers! And the abolitionist ones? Whew forget it!

Oh, just arbiter of journalism and recent colloquialism, can you make even one relevant comment?

Mr. smew is a journalist who, along with his team, helped uncover and take down a high degree of corruption among some local elected officials. I'm not just proud of him as his spouse, I'm proud of him as a fucking voter and taxpayer. I keep hearing people say "Why didn't we know about this?" Well, you never would…

I've been thinking exactly the same thing. I had a look at the manifesto (I felt like I shouldn't but really wanted to know if this was really a woman hating thing since everyone is discussing it), and women weren't "mean to him". They didn't "friendzone" him. He just didn't speak to any women, and walked around being…

That's a capitol bit of assholery...her only crime is being the object of affection of a mentally ill man who committed a terrible crime. She gets her face splashed across rag tabloids and tries to take down her Instagram and Twitter accounts to control the damage. Your reaction is to dig through her FB page and…

This is what bothers me about Jezebel's headline (which I understand is probably a headline by extension, but whatevs) - I took a look at this dude's long, rambling manifesto and none of these girls really actively snubbed him. As in, turned him down, told him no. The vast majority of them had no idea he even had…

Or that we are only supposed to grieve over murdered women when they were "beautiful young women". If you are old and ugly nobody sheds a tear.

I'm sorry, are you making fun of me? I'm assuming you read the article already - this is what you felt compelled to comment on?

"Everybody loves this girl." Okay, I understand we are trying to establish this young woman's innocence, but am I the only person bothered by statements like this? The girl does not have to be a perfect angel to have a right to refuse someone. This plays into the idea that women can be rightfully demonized if they are…

On paper, breast milk is better.

I find it perfectly appropriate to mock someone's outraged response to something so benign. Who gives a shit if the magazine declared that she was what a woman in the music industry should be? The article is boasting her in a field of work where women are very often portrayed a certain way.