No, sweetie, we laugh at trolls. They're so hilarious!

It actually isn't, all you have to do is actually try to reason it out. A trans woman is a woman who was categorized as male at birth. Asking that journalists just call trans women "men" because it's more convenient for you is very offensive.

Seriously. Get it, girl.

LOL!! You're silly.

Oh, this made me so happy. Thank you for sharing!

I'm replying here to a comment from you, because Kinja is being less than cooperative. Sorry for any confusion. The comment I'm replying to is this one:

It's not that we're not "wired" to feel that way, it's that we're socialized to never show anger or be aggressive.

I like how you saw an instance of obvious hyperbole and you immediately jumped to veiled accusations of physical abuse. That's amazing.

As for "casually dismissing" men who pop in here to talk about how not all men are bad... they're useless. They're doing nothing except trying to assuage their hurt feelings because someone somewhere forgot to put the word "some" in front of the word "men" when talking about how they've been treated very terribly,…

Yeah, uh... that was kind of obvious hyperbole on her part, I can't believe you're taking that at face value. That's kind of ridiculous.

Why do you think those guys need your defense? They're coming into a place where women are sharing personal stories about how events like this effect their lives, how our culture of male entitlement effects all our lives in a very negative way, and they're making it allllllll about them and their hurt feelings.

The men you know must be very defensive and knee-jerk reactionary, then, because every man I've talked to about this issue lately has been very much "WTF is wrong with these asshole dudes". The only "fight or flight" mode behavior I've seen from men has been on the internet, in comments on articles like this, when…

It's cute that you can't understand hyperbole in written form.

That doesn't make it okay, that just means your friend's an asshole when it comes to dating.

Aw, dude, come on. Just because you've felt negative emotions before in relation to romantic endeavors, it's not okay to accept a date with someone of a different sexual orientation than you, just so you can get a free drink and call someone a creep. That's just being shitty to someone for the sake of being shitty…

Macy's is the WORST. Every time I go there to try things on I just end up sitting in the dressing room, surrounded by pants with tags blaring about their "tummy control panel" and whatnot. Barf. I'm moving to all-online shopping at this point (here's hoping the eShakti dresses on their way to me will actually fit…

Oh, thank you! That's awesome, I love Mini Boden stuff for my niece and nephew, I don't know why it never occurred to me to check their adult lines for options. Thanks for sharing!

I'm giving eShakti.com another try, since they have a "buy 2 get 1 free" sitewide sale happening right now... I'm hoping a few of their gingham/seersucker summer dresses will work for me. Have you ever given them a try?

I'm having to give up on them, too, which sucks because I live in a city and don't own a car, and finding affordable clothing options that actually fit my body is at this point basically impossible.

How hard was it to learn to sew? Were you lucky enough to learn from an older relative, or did you take classes or something? I'd love to learn to sew (and even have a sewing machine stashed away in a closet) but I'm a little intimidated.