A woman also has to work for 18 years of her life (plus 9 months of WAY beyond "discomfort") to support the child. Women who do not have custody also have to pay child support...

You don't have to be a superior to retaliate against them professionally, and lack of response is MOST DEFINITELY not consent. YES is the only thing that means yes. If you don't believe that, you have a serious problem.

You find the reality of women incomprehensible? Sounds like maybe you shouldn't be participating in this discussion then.

Only if by people, you mean, mostly men and hardly ever women. Are women not even real people to you?

The appropriate manner would be — not skipping straight to sexually explicit talk, taking a "soft no" for an answer, and not bringing it up in the middle of a work-related discussion, etc. I'm going to bet you parents and grandparents followed those three items pretty well.

"...adults are expected to be able to immediately say stop when they want something stopped."

Apparently, those people existing in privilege have a damn hard time understanding what it's like to be part of an oppressed group. As a white female, I can't understand, but I can empathize with those who are a part of other oppressed groups. It seems that most cis-hetero-white males cannot even fathom the concepts…

Google it. There's dozens of articles about this specific issue specifically in the gaming industry. Seems like it isn't very isolated, then. I'm sure other industries have issues as well, but that doesn't make it okay for the gaming industry to have them.

Not everyone can afford to be a martyr. Most of us have bills to pay, families to feed. There have already been thousands of women who have "martyred" themselves over this and yet, it continues.

If you read some of her posts in this thread, she pretty much did. Like not wanting her kids called thin unless their doctor said they had a problem. ..

I have never seen those numbers on women's pants unless they cost more than 100 dollars. ..and let's not pretend that's something the average American buys.

I actually love wearing dresses and I hate that I don't get a chance very often...but I am a farmer in a northern climate with physical labor and outdoor day job. Wearing dresses during work or at home isn't a normal option for me. And if I wear dresses to casual events I constantly get asked why I'm so dressed up.

Really? Most women spend more than 50% of their waking hours in a dress? Where do you live? I, my friends, my family members and my coworkers wear a dress maybe once a month?

You kind of started the discussion of what's thin by saying that this model specifically wasn't thin. That alone can be pretty damn triggering.

I never said sizes 0 or 2 were underweight, or that this woman was the norm for advertising. It just seems rather insulting to call her "definitely not thin" when if you saw her walking around a mall, would be considered thinner than average. It seems like holding women to an unrealistic standard.

I'm not sure I've ever seen a top in a numbered size..maybe at high-end stores or something? I pretty much get all my clothes at Kohl's or Target or a similar level store. I just kind of assumed that when we talk about sizes, we are talking about pant sizes, because wearing dresses is pretty rare these days and most…

Underweight is literally a clinical term. It is not an insult. I did say anything was wrong with people who are underweight. I just said that while underweight people are thin, so are people who are not underweight.

I didn't know you had to be considered underweight to be thin. I have a similar BMI to you, and look pretty similar to this girl (maybe a little less tummy, but similar thighs and breasts) and if someone told me I was "definitely not thin" I would take it as an insult.

I think one of the comment threads on this article is a perfect example of that — the one discussing the side-boob roll. That's the kind of stuff that people starve themselves for, or at least beat themselves up about, because they honestly think that pretty people don't have it. If you have literally never seen a…

The quote from the breed advocate was hardly coherent, let alone helpful. Or maybe my brain is just broken today.