It only sounds like that to paranoid, sexist ears. You can come up with a word that removes any focus from women. Those of us who are are unashamed to be focusing on the materially exploited class within gender relations – women – will ignore your new word and continue to be feminists.

Hear, hear!

Dogs are so much better than people it isn't even funny.

—For example, in 2007 Barbara Ehrenreich, an author and social critic, ridiculed the book’s weight control advice to “not observe” overweight people.—

Junior high? Jesus. This was the kind of shit people in my life pulled in elementary school. It was fucked up and it took me years to realize the impact it had on me.

Something like that actually happened to me in 8th grade. My dad told me “Supernova, sometimes people are just going to be assholes to you. They’ll want to hurt you and push you down because it makes them feel better about their shitty little lives. Piss them off baby and rise. Rise up so high you can’t hear them…

You should have taken his eye out with a spoon, then asked him why he drew all that negative energy to himself.

...and the witches’ brooms they all rode in on!

You were never a feminist of any kind with those anti-feminist misconceptions about feminist traditions.

Me, reading this, “Oh so you are both total assholes, cool cool coolcooooolcoooool.”

The whole thing of judging men negatively for the same activities that are expected of women, but especially shudder and cringe at that last part (for me anyway, speaking personally) - ‘that’s what mom’s do, they give up those parts of themselves that are in their work and give it to children and family’

Ugh what a cooooooooooooooooze, my stomach hurts from reading that. The other ones are lame as shit and obviously scared of her. You deserve so, so, so much better. Rock on with your rad self and your friends who don’t suck!

At a certain point, your husband is an adult and knows exactly what the fuck is going on.

We don’t know each other and I don’t want to get in your business, but in your shoes, if my husband stayed at the event, we should have a (polite) convo about marriage as a team against that kind of bullshit.

Cunt.Face.

Meh, the text sent to her husband was beyond shitty, but I feel like throwing any shade in this situation isn’t fair because we don’t know what the husband and friend fought about initially. It sounds like things have been simmering for a long time for this lady to walk away from her closest friend. And the way the…

Hate to break it to you, but you’re both shitty friends. This article is nothing more than revenge trying to disguise itself as a ‘thoughtful meditation’ on the end of the friendship. As you said, there’s a part of you (I’d suspect a large part) that is upset that you were the dumpee. So you took to the internet to…

Maybe I’m missing something, but what does her spirituality have to do with this breakup? Sounds like the two of you had a falling out over something personal that had nothing to do with religion or spirituality, yet the headline makes it seem like that was what pushed your friendship over the edge.

Do not lend out your books, do not lend out your books, do not lend out your books....

Yep, de-valuing and minimizing “women’s” work, no matter who’s doing it, men or women. Peak patriarchy right there. So sad.

I agree about that text. There’s so much misogyny in it. She never would have said a thing to a stay at home mom, “ultimate contributors to society” — patriarchy strikes again.