Ah, yes, the good old "all women are different" line. It's true, which makes it harder to recognize that whatever misogynist is currently employing it is only trying to erase women as a sexual class. Yeah, Mr. Deen, all women are different. Male directed (meaning porn directed both by and to men) is still bad for all…

I know. The deadspinners are super cool. Why is that?

An ex-roommate of mine killed one of my pets once. In a horrible way. Later he went to jail for terrorizing a girlfriend of his. And later I learned that he was abusing the girlfriend he has when we were living together. The point being... animal abuse really is a sign that there is something fundamentally wrong with…

I think the difference is that you expect that sort of thing on Kotaku, and the Kotakuers themselves are pretty self aware regarding how juvenile they are and how juvenile their professed attitudes towards women are. And honestly, most of what is not politically correct on Kotaku is just juvenile.

I'm being sarcastic about the trigger warning. I don't actually believe in trigger warnings.

More to the point, this article should have been the original and only article on the topic posted to Jezebel.

I enjoy wearing heels. But what does concern me, as I think I've mentioned before on this site, is that they are able to sell heels to minors. I see ver tall wedge sneakers and wedge sports shoes (which are basically just very tall heels) in the Junior section of department stores all the time now. Certainly the…

Can't you also argue, though, that male speech patterns ALSO developed in the context of "traditionally oppressive conditions"? Meaning, male speech patterns are resources for men under patriarchy. And given the choice of speaking "defensively," or in the style of people who have traditionally been on the defensive…

Agreed. Carmen Gabriela Baldwin is a super classy name. I see very classy things in this baby's future.

Fuck your instructor and fuck that course. How come men never have to take a "men's communication" skills to learn how to be less overbearing when they speak?

I don't have any particular investment in the phrase "I feel like." But I don't understand why male speech patterns which (according to this article and every article like it published sin the 1970s) involve less qualifying language should be considered default normal. Of course, that "I don't understand" is itself…

If you were honestly being facetious and don't seriously think that "employing" a prostitute to pretend to be raped is ever acceptable or even relatively acceptable then I retract what I said. (Or at least, I bracket what I said and would like to redirect it to people who do think that.) But in my defense, I've been…

Yes. Now, do you want to talk about how you suggested abusing a sexually trafficked individual as an alternative for rape?

"(iv) can't you just pay a prostitute a little extra to act scared if you can't get it up without that "rush", I mean that's living out your fantasy and boosting the fledgling economy all at once?"

You obviously don't watch SVU. The whole point of SVU is that what often starts out as a story about a sex crime turns out to be about something totally unrelated. For instance, suspected pedophile is actually just taking semi-nude of kids that he's studying because they've been exposed to toxins in their apartment…

It's like you're drunk on your white privilege. Honestly, it's like you are have become inebriated on your Eurocentrism.

For real. The comments on this article make Jezebel look like a fun-fem white pride rally.

I'm so in love with Aziz Ansari's Tom Haverford on P&R. He reminds me of more than one person I know in real life who fits a type that never gets portrayed in the movies or on TV but is actually awesome. Short, slight, dark, ridiculously swagged out, but not compensating, materialistic, but ultimately just wants to be…

This. I don't take thin shaming seriously for a second. Being told you're too thin just... doesn't hurt.

Let's be realistic. We've all been trained to say, "I would give him a swift kick in the nuts." (Grrrrl power!) But in reality, you do that to a man who grabs you in the street and he could kill you. Because a not insignificant percentage of grabbers will flip out and become violent if you challenge their right to…