It’s no more inherently unjustifiable then spending a fiver on sparkly stickers or toy plastic animals or greeting cards (stuff that’s on my desk right now.) The protesters keep crossing their streams—if you want to enjoin sympathy for poverty and wrongful eviction, you need to focus on that, not “you’re stupid for…

I am absolutely not saying he didn’t do it, however there is definitely something fishy going on here. Patrick Kane is a piece of trash and there are plenty of reasons for everyone to believe that, but just as we shouldn’t allow people to say “oh she couldn’t have been raped because she’s a slut”, we also shouldn’t…

Yeah, exactly. I’m bored as shit with this doubling down on anything anyone says anywhere. Being aware and conscious does not mean nit fucking picking every single thing that comes out of anyone’s mouth.

We are to destroy his career. He interrupted a black woman in a 30 second video fragment. The racist, whitey, whitesplaining bastard.

This is what Noah said:

He said in the pretty much the weakest of terms that this wasn’t that bad and that he thought it would be worse and that the original argument is defensible. He didn’t even deny that it was sexism, which you are saying he did. That is just such a mild disagreement. It’s like saying something and someone saying “I’m…

Ugh, let him have an opinion on it. Feminist spaces shouldn’t outright dismiss male contributions, it does nothing for the goal of equality. He’s not mansplaining, he’s simply contributing like all the rest of us are. His comments hold just as much weight, he’s not talking over anyone, and he’s not saying that his…

For the record, he never said the comment wasn’t sexist, and I’m not even defending the substance of his comment because I don’t really agree with him. My only arguments here are that he wasn’t being dismissive, you were, and men do have a place when it comes to talking about sexism. You’re saying they shouldn’t be…

He wasn’t making any claim about sexism in general. He was talking about a specific comment, and if you look at the context, he was saying this just wasn’t as bad as he thought it was going to be.

I’m not agreeing with the comment. I’m just not seeing where it is condescending, which is kind of the principle ingredient in mansplaining. And I’m not seeing where he dismisses the view of anyone. I saw where you were being dismissive of his views, but he just stated some views that disagreed with the views of other…

You’re really going to claim mansplaining on that? He put it out there as his own thoughts and nothing he said was condescending. Is your point just that men shouldn’t comment here at all?

You actually don’t get paid 23 cents less for working the SAME job with the SAME hours. Adjusted for just these two crucial factors, the gap narrows to just five cents and these come down mainly to different salary negotiating tactics: Men take more risks and choose smaller base payment and higher bonuses, women do…

I’ve heard this from many of my friends and I have to admit it really bothers me. Why are we measuring a man’s interest by his willingness to foot the bill for a meal? In general, in life, do you assume a person is more interested in you (as a friend, a daughter, a parent, etc.) based on their willingness to buy you…

Yeah the lyrics seem like one thing, but the seemingly definite plan-making with the accomplice in the comment thread is another; at least that’s what I’m assuming tipped the scales? Otherwise this would be très weird.

I was thinking about a way that this video could possibly saved, and I can’t find it. If she included African people, then she would run the risk of using them as props. Even just setting the video there feels like white privilege. “Ooooh, isn’t Africa so pretty and exotic? I’m going to jet in and out again because…

From the article:

Just a heads up, it’s not going to rub many people the right way if feminism starts focusing on censoring and policing individual speech.

You can’t send classified info over the non-classified networks. This has been the case forever. The email server, while increasingly risky as we understand more in the digital age isn’t toooo terrible of a problem. But if she knowingly (or neglectfully) sent classified info over a very insecure network, that’s a…

Jeez, in a year or so it might actually be the game we were promised.