As someone studying fairy tales at uni (my job prospects sparkle!) not all European fairy tales are bad. There was a big push to make princesses more docile, but initially it was different. For example, a Cinderella-like princesses who kill an ogre to get to the party (by offering to brush the ogres hair for the…

Can’t agree there. I was totally on board with her complaining about another child teasing her kid until she cries. One may or may not agree about the pretend guns, but that level of teasing is not teasing anymore; it is flat-out bullying.

THEIR not wanting to feel pressured to compete sexually with other women

I like what they started to do in Scandinavian countries...let prostitutes off the hook for prostitution, and prosecute johns and pimps. Now say that 10 times, fast.

Super unpopular opinion- I really don’t like legalizing prostitution because of the commodification of (mostly) female bodies. I think if it was a small scale with women having total control over being paid for what they decide on, it would be different. But, it’s not. For the most part, when prostitution is legal,…

Couldn’t it be that more women are hesitant to endorse a practice - legality aside - where they are especially vulnerable to the violence of human males?

Well, but there’s consenting to something because you want to have sex with people for money (and if you do, great! You do you!) and consenting to something because you’re poor, or uneducated, or feeding an addition, or whatever and it’s the only prospect you have for making money. Is that actually consent and is that…

The point is that often the women AREN’T consenting and I really doubt any man stops to find out or even care. And the wives of the johns aren’t consenting either — to either secret betrayal or sexually transmitted diseases that they’d never think to check for to treat.