If a guy is exercising his masculinity via his choice of fast-food burgers, I think that's a win for us. Of course I'm not thinking AT ALL about all those yogurt commercials.

"We believe in putting hot models in our commercials, because ugly ones don't sell burgers."

Your story is unsettling because it's not even about being on camera. It still illustrates the rule that a woman must look good to garner any sort of audience. Even if she meets those criteria, she's still taken less seriously than her male peers, because — as Lindy put it — If you care about the hotness of your…

It's not hard to accept that some people are better looking than other people. It's hard to accept the skewed proportion to which attractiveness is desired and rewarded publicly, and as Lindy pointed out, where it's of debatable relevance. Not to mention the double standards. What's considered attractive in a…

Also tons of media critics seem more devoted to composing rants about how shitty blockbusters are, and not drawing attention to the gems of film and t.v. that get overlooked, which might include non-woman-insulting material. And bashing shitty movies doesn't necessarily make them lose money.

they really dont get it = how atheists feel about deities.

It's a weird line to tread. My normal approach to my partners' moods is to offer sympathy and/or help but if they don't respond I drop it. It's natural to be concerned when your partner doesn't seem happy, obviously you want them to be happy (although in my case it's partly a codependent reflex). I had a partner…

Yeah that pretty much describes my experience of the suffocating reaction some of my male partners have to my moods. They immediately translated my lack of militant cheerfulness as an appeal to them for help/solutions. I can't decide if I'd rather just be told that my depression is a turn-off.

I really don't think there is any large scale efforts by anyone to treat gender non-conformists negatively or maliciously

I agree. I can't think of anything else to say without repeating myself. I never mentioned making girls abandon dolls, only that they shouldn't be made to feel like freaks if they don't like them. What's problematic is negative treatment of and exclusion of people who don't conform to gender norms. The knowledge…

True but I believe he would have been a genius with or without drugs.

The fact that girls want to play with dolls is not a problem

We abhor sexism based on a deeper philosophical understanding that people must be treated as individuals and not as a representatives of a demographic group especially when they are being addressed singularly

Not that I'm not taking this seriously, just got sidetracked giggling over the first sentence.

fat girls are crazy.

I'd be interested to know who that was. Writers have been known to take any and every substance I imagine. Also things like cocaine and heroin used to be a lot easier to get.

Well, hmm. I've had my share of opiates, though not heroin specifically. I have known habitual users, not all of whom were addicts. The destructive potential of both can be devastating but my vote is more about the culture of each drug, and also having heard about more incidences of coke fiends hauling off and…

So what biological traits are you speaking of, which are so directly responsible for differences in behavior? It has to be something more than hormones. And as I said in an earlier post, what is the value in confirming that behavior is biologically determined by sex? What's even more important than said differences…

And yes men and women are different in the same way they were 5000 years ago

The hardest decision I face when opening my browser is whether to watch porn or cat videos.