This reminds me of Johnny Weissmuller. Slightly later. And possessing of some genuine athletic talent. But still.

You understand that that old-as-time objectification of male bodies you're referencing was also carried out by men, right? Women weren't carving those statues or painting those paintings. That was man on man objectification. (And it still is, really. The media that manufactures women's desire to see these images and…

From wiki: "The perpetrator was 48-year-old Scott Township resident George Sodini (September 30, 1960^[6] – August 4, 2009), a systems analyst at the law firm of K&L Gates.^[7] On a website registered in his name,^[8] Sodini chronicled over a nine-month period his rejections by women and his severe sexual frustration.…

Or the most obvious thing, that they're just being polite and practicing everyday normal social graces.

This is a hallmark of the violently-misoginistic male. All women are lying to them all the time. Remember the men's rights follower/pickup artist who murdered all those women in the yoga gym or the pilates gym or whatever it was? Later on when on his ramblings were discovered one of the things he was going on and on…

For the record, it's really not ok to call children stupid ever if you're an adult. A really essential part of being a grownup is not calling children stupid.

They are cute. But the list of mammals stupider than a hedgehog can't be that long. Can it? (This isn't rhetorical. Please help me brainstorm mammals that are stupider than hedgehogs.)

I have had to dismiss a LOT of victim blamey and misogynistic "so girls should never be held responsible for their actions?" type comments. Even some, "that's so paternalistic" fun-fem, girl-power victim blamey and misogynistic comments. (You'd think the fact that, as I alluded to in my comment, this is actually…

This is the best piece I've seen on Jezebel in a long time. Loli could have been any one of us. There is no thirteen year old who isn't a potential Loli. Reading this and actually knowing someone in real life who is in prison for consuming images of fourteen/fifteen year olds all I can think is that he deserves every…

For sure.

Ha. That is my default state. I should shut up now and watch my movies. (ETA: This is my version of an apology.)

Wow. Here I was expecting to have to talk about other reasons that kyriarchy (a term coined by a traditional, white feminist academic) proved so popular in white academic and activist circles.

Yes it was (introduced in the 2000s). Again, by a really really old school fuddy duddy white feminist endorsed by Harvard of all places. Or am I speaking to someone from the alternate universe, where someone totally different invented this term?

You know it was a fuddy-duddy really really REALLY old-school white feminist who coined the term kyriarchy, right? (Which I say tongue in cheek because I do like her.)

Dude. You're seriously just making shit up now.

Wow... and it's not heavy-handed at all.

The problem isn’t that it is an arcane or obscure term. The problem is that it's a vapid term. It’s a term that had its five minutes (which was honestly, way too much) in pre-academic circles, and then was quickly dropped because, in fact, it’s not adequate to an intersectional ANYTHING. Patriarchy is an even older…

+ When will guys stop disowning their potential progeny? (Yeah... I totally believe that Peterson is playing through his grief for the son is tried to deny until recently. Imagine how differently things might have turned out if the boy had been visiting his father the day this happened.)

Hmm. I haven't read the Andersen version. The Jez story says it's her brother in the "original version."

Oh yeah. I try not to think about the "official language" thing cause it's such BS.