So, good men don't want people to make that assumption about them — that's part of why this movement is so important, in my opinion. The good men need to see that the nasty ones are making them ALL LOOK BAD. Good men need to learn to call out misogyny when they see it, let their bros know when they're making a woman…

did you just "not all men" this comment thread? You really haven't been paying attention.

So she's stayed "anonymous" so far but disclosed that she "works in fashion," which surprises me NOTATALL (as someone else who works in this terrible industry). All of my coworkers are sample sizes (except me, oops) and all any of them talk about are how fat they are or whose body they covet. Lots of jealousy,…

You know, there's really nothing like watching a weirdo completely unravel on a Gawker thread. Your descent into incoherence is making my afternoon.

A+ point-by-point take down! There was too much stupid in that comment for me to wrap my head around.

Yesterday my boyfriend's buddy posted a close-up picture of a woman in white shorts from behind with some caption about "bored at the DMV, at least I have a good view!" and I had to be the "feminist fun ruiner" as usual. He seemed to genuinely not understand why what he did was creepy as fuck, which really concerns me…

The article itself mentions STI and pregnancy testing , which I feel would absolutely be relevant to an investigation. Contracting the same STI strain as your attacker is some kind of evidence, right? And pregnancy provides DNA evidence that could close the case.

Are you serious? Almost all of our focus, ALL OF THE TIME, is on men, and their needs and feelings. Women fight for basic birth control and reproductive health coverage, but employers have no problem covering Viagra on their insurance plans. Women are raped and assaulted on college campuses, and instead of examining…

It's pretty frustrating to realize that lots of dudes respect the idea of a hypothetical man who already "has" you more than they respect you, a human being standing in front of them.

Seriously. Didn't Margaret Atwood say "Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them"? The two are not equal, and trying to make them so is insulting, not to mention illogical.

Whoops, I totally replied to your post instead of sostanky's weirdness — my apologies. Damn it, Kinja.

Don't derail, you know perfectly well what the OP meant. Basic human rights are owed. Sex and relationships are not.

That's what I can't get over! People saying things like, "if someone had just noticed him and given him the affection he craved, maybe this could have been avoided." Um, no. What do we think would have happened to any poor girl who went out with him the first time she dared say "no"?

Because something a 10-year old girl said (12 years ago) does not excuse the actions of a 22-year old man? Maybe?

But does that absolve him of personal responsibility? Some internet people said he deserved a hot girl, so how could he be expected to deduce otherwise? To reiterate: no one "deserves" any kind of girl. Why is that difficult to understand? Thinking that he deserved something is not a justification. Being told he…

So because she chose to live her life in a way that didn't involve dating or having sex with him, she is to blame? Here's a secret: it doesn't matter what this girl is doing with her life, because she doesn't have to justify herself to you or anyone else. She wasn't attracted to him, and she was under no obligation to…

And with that response, I am certain you are unhinged. I don't disagree that high school culture is fucked up, but not in the way you're trying to posit. There will always be "popular" and "unpopular," but that isn't the point — the point is that this kid assumed that because hot girls and popularity existed, that he…

Poor little rich boy! Is this going to be another case of affluenza? He didn't know what he was doing! All of his other friends were having sex, so he just assumed that he deserved some, too! Maybe if those girls hadn't been so stuck up and had just thrown him a bone, he wouldn't have decided to kill people, right?…

I think this speaks to an important point, but it isn't that this kid isn't responsible for his actions. We need to change the culture of entitlement that teaches young men that they are owed sex or a girlfriend just by virtue of being male. He felt he deserved to have women offering him sex, and when that didn't…