In this case, it "benefits" men by perpetuating the gendered idea that men = strong, women = weak. It's obviously not a benefit to be put in harm's way, but what it reinforces in terms of gender roles, is. That's the point.

I think it should be noted that in the guys own question he said his wife "loved" the haircut. If someone loves something about themselves and you love them, you should get over it. It's not your hair. I'm tired of guys making asinine comments about short hair like this, especially when we the reader have no idea what…

He's not responsible for what someone "might" do based on a fictional depiction of a character doing something that is clearly wrong. Further, our culture perpetuates a much more problematic idea about rape than SOA. At least the show clearly shows it's wrong and bad. Our society is much less clear about it than the…

This is also true. Frankly, the US system is not built around supporting childcare/rearing by anyone but the most affluent. Which is a big problem.

To a degree, yes, it is a privileged choice to be an SAHM. The things you sacrificed were already not essentials. Many people are making the choices between paying rent and eating, not cable and a bigger house. Most people can't even own a house and require two working parents to pay rent. So, no, not "anyone" can do…

This is nearly word for word the Twitter conversation I had about this atrocious article. Complete with flame face.

Old Navy yoga pants are the bomb. I have a 4 year old pair that are still going strong and are MUCH more comfortable than the more expensive ones I got from their sister site, Athleta. Those have lasted too but I find the fabric..itchier?

Ahahaha. I love it. My thighteeth usually do a number on my leggings/yoga pants as well. Best ones? ON and H&M brand. I dunno what they do differently than other brands, but, they work and don't pill and don't get bit. And they're cheap as hell.

I get the concern, but at a certain point, you have to weigh which criticism is more relevant/leads to you becoming a better writer. People complain about anything anyone puts out there, period. It's not a great excuse to avoid diversity in your work. Yes, you'll get criticism. Which you would anyway. I'd rather make…

Yeah, wow, that comment was sure...something.

I currently live in Germany, where it was recently discovered that there were over 47 thousand types of camps during the Holocaust, instead of the previously believed, roughly over one thousand. It's also where Giselle Perl http://www.holocaust-history.org/auschwitz/gisella-perl/, performed abortions, to save as many…

A. I don't think she's the voice of this or any other generation, and I think that line from the show was a joke. B. She's a writer who puts her work out there. She is aware of the diversity issue but chooses to excuse it with, frankly, lazy reasoning she could rectify in a lot of different ways. She just has to want…

Something else that should be mentioned, but "self defense" isn't the "get out of jail free card" some people seem to think it is when it comes to killing another person. Women who fight back and injure/kill their attackers are disproportionately likely to face more severe penalties for using "excessive force" because…

Honestly, I think that's an excuse not to make the effort in her own writing. The oft misused "write what you know" isn't really about only writing what you specifically have experienced, or else all writers would be autobiographers. Fiction writers make shit up, all the time. About all kinds of things. We all…

See, this is the problem I have with this reasoning. She acknowledges it's a problem, seems aware that diversity on TV is something to strive for...but then excuses not making the effort by saying the show is "personal". And, to a degree, I get that Girls is obviously very autobiographical. But it's still, at the end…

Er, how did so many people miss the point of this article? She never once says she wasn't responsible, she's pointing out that there are a lot of people willing and able to take advantage of people who are poor, have no one else, and come from abusive backgrounds. She never said what she did was "good" and clearly…

It's one of my "favorite" forms of sexism, the backhanded compliment. That we women are so much "better" that we can control the actions of others by...I have no idea what. Not going outside? Not laughing at jokes? It's the same old rhetoric they tried to use to keep women from voting. We were too "good" for the dirty…

This. My husband and all my dude friends manage, EVERY DAY, not to even consider raping anyone. The idea behind this attitude always seems to imply that men's default state is "rapist" which...ugh. The only reason anyone thinks men can't control themselves is because we teach them they don't have to and idiots like…

Er, I'm not seeing much that's "feminist" in that statement. I mean, it's cool if women just "make more sense" to her and she admires the women in her life...but saying the world is a better place when women are in charge? Nope. That's not feminist. We aren't superior. We're human. We're flawed. And as leaders we are…