Well wars are bad, the amount of money that goes into our military budget is bad, glorifying the need for such things is bad but having a military is necessary and always will be and not allowing women equal work opportunity is also very BAD. Maintaining discriminatory standards in the military doesn’t help or serve…

Ha, this just made me snort on the train. I think some people are worried now, lol.

He seems like the kind of entitled asshat to think sexual assault is nbd because hey who wouldn’t want his D?

The fact that she would have been better off raping someone tells you all you need to know, really.

This. Sentencing for violent offenses against women and children should be harsher. Not because women’s/children’s lives are worth more than the average man’s, but because they’re at a cultural, systemic disadvantage to start with and unfortunately we need a stronger deterrent to keep men from beating the shit out of…

I live in California and supported and continue to support prop 47. I have not heard anything about violent criminals being released en masse here.

Hon, I’ve been a single mom for ten years. Taking care of one child is infinitely easier than taking care of a child and a manchild and breeds far less resentment. If you can get the money and childcare angles sorted, don’t waste your time with the personal maidservice. And in the meantime, stop doing his work for…

“Talking about rape and cutting bodies up, it just doesn’t interest me anymore.”

This is going to be the real legacy of the internet: helping nobodies make a name for themselves through the creation of redundant jargon.

No see, they don’t think maternity leave needs to be a thing. Women folk should just leave the job having to the mens (except teachering, nursing, and secretary jobs for those that haven’t yet found husbands) and should be home having/taking care of the babies. No need for maternity leave if you don’t have a job.

And there’s also this: no matter how forgiving they are, the victim of a crime does not get to decide what the appropriate punishment should be. There’s a reason why the case is recorded not as Samantha Gailey vs. Roman Polanski, but as The People of the State of California vs. Roman Polanski: he perpetrated a crime…

He’s making the logical fallacy that because it’s not a part of his immediate experience, it’s not real. He doesn’t beat his wife, therefore no women can be taken seriously with reports of abuse. He’s not poor, therefore anyone who is poor just isn’t trying hard enough.

There is really no greater gift a former lover can give you than an overwrought love letter (or series of inane tweets, it is 2015). First it’s painful to read, then you start cringing, then relief washes over you as you realize you could have ended up with someone who totally seemed normal at first but actually has a…

I actually think non-monogamy is the tool of patriarchal marriage: it’s a marriage in which men can take on multiple wives with varying social statuses and play them off each other and a marriage in which men are free to openly sleep with anyone they choose and bring back chaos and disease to their partnerships while…

Sure. First of all, they entered a monogamous marriage; this wasn’t something that was ever discussed. Okay, people change. Cool. But it’s not like this was something they both realized. She kissed someone else and brought up this subject afterwards. This was not his idea. He says he had to drink lots of wine. I’m…

It also should not require being challenged and potentially hurt by an open marriage to understand that women are people. My boyfriend is a feminist, and he was able to understand sexual consent and agency in the context of a committed lifelong partnership. There is no fundamental relationship between open marriages…

You know, you make a really good point. When some people are cheated on they so desperately want to keep the relationship going they agree to all sorts of things that don’t sit right with them in hopes of saving things. And then they do mental contortions to gas light themselves (with the full help of their partner,…

Indeed. My impression is that she’s got him believing that because she only screwed around with a few people before meeting him and never had any ‘real’ relationships she needs to go screw some more people - but this won’t impact their primary relationship, despite her not having had any ‘real’ relationships before…

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Even as a male feminist (Hi there, not the Hugo Schwyzer type nosirree!), this guy is absolutely rationalizing his wife’s shitty behavior to him by painting himself as a feminist hero.