Preach. You are so right on both posts. And I agree it's all very mundane. I grew up with it in fact. My own father was such a person. I believe one of the only reasons he didn't take his issues and subsequent behavior toward women further is that he was simply afraid to get caught. This is not new or unique and I'm…

This. Exactly. Castro is an extreme example but, as I said elsewhere, his "excuses" are versions of things I hear every day. I have luckily never experienced violence at the hands of a man, but I have actually had the experience of a man handing out my phone number to all of his friends simply because I had sex with…

Yeah, like UN peacekeepers from the Katrhyn Bolkovac non-scandal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Whist…

I get what you're saying and I agree completely. It may be a matter of degrees, but Castro is just another example of the de-humanizing/objectifying of women that happens everyday, by most people (even other women).

In fairness, any other policy would seriously tarnish Yale's reputation as the first choice of school for villains in John Hughes movies.

This is why I find a lot of romantic comedies creepy. People do stalker-ish, creepy things, and the movies find them charming. Stopping rush hour traffic to chase the target on foot? Sleeping all night on the target's porch? Driving across the country on a moment's notice to ruin the target's wedding? Fuck all of…

Oh. Absolutely. I'm not actually an English person, but fields like English are super paternalistic that way. You get tons of middle-tier programs where 90% of the students are female and 90% of the senior faculty are male and NOTHING good can come from that. At best, you'll get a situation where the faculty just hand…

I put off watching it for so long because of the reviews, but when I finally watched the whole thing in 1 day I was wondering what everyone was complaining about! It was good, no it's not the same show because he characters are grown up, but it was still so funny and awesome! I loved that ongoing joke with "the sound…

That's what a co-worker of mine describes as "old lady behavior." It's low-rent and will make you a laughing stock. It's also a terrible idea - what if someone else in your household uses it again for contact lenses and burns their eyes from mustard reside.

Though they aren't "supposed" to use the answers when making hiring decisions; I ALWAYS get asked if I'm married or have kids. Always.

and the added benefit of taking the meet and greet opportunity away from her very young, primarily female, fanbase!

I think I saw an SVU episode about this once. Vogue is going fetishy!

I just came here to say Narciso Rodriguez is a genius in our time.

They weren't just trolling a woman. They were trolling a woman so that the winner could sexually harass her (by sniffing her hair etc) while she couldn't do anything about it.

Yes. I think it's misogynistic for other reasons - obviously the hair sniffing thing and how we would expect male vs female celebrities to react. I think the funny thing about some near-middle aged guy sniffing Taylor Swift's hair is how people would expect Taylor Swift to put up with it, maybe make a face, but be…

I'm not a huge Lena Dunham fan, but she's preaching it right here:

The hammer is his penis. We already knew that.

Yeah, but what if the lady is a casting agent for Puppetry of the Penis?

I'm overall uncomfortable with discussions of male circumcision and female genital mutilation in the same space because the first is a far more extreme procedure, but I do think they're both bad.