Yuppers. Customer service people assign you names based on how dickish you are... Or how bad a mood they are in.

First of all, your experience is not everyone else's experience. It's not fair to judge this woman on the basis of those messages and what you interpret them to mean. People—women especially—are very good at putting on a brave face and pretending everything's normal. People are disingenuous all the time. And if she…

I agree completely with your comment about being socialized to be polite and act "normal" in the face of uncomfortable situations. I am so glad Emma decided to share the transcripts with her explanations.

How is there "no evidence"?? Her testimony is evidence, by definition.

It's far, far more common then you think.

What kind of life experiences does a woman have to have in order to turn into the kind of person who says "oh yea, every one of those women are just making it all up"?

I adore you for this comment and I'm laughing so hard right now. You are much stronger than I would be in the face of the army of defensive Redditors who resemble this remark. My usual train of thought when I hear "females:" my ex->fedorasPUAsMRAs->Reddit.

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The comments Jez is getting on this article over on Facebook are proving the point that men who call women females are just douchebag misogynists.

I wanna know who was the motherfucker that started this trend. I just noticed a bunch of dudes using it starting in, I wanna say 2013 but maybe earlier than that?

I think we feel uncomfortable about the word "woman" because we're taught that our attractiveness withers and dies after the age of 22 when, like an apple falling from the tree, we sit on the grass withering and rotting until winter comes and destroys us completely.

They do! These are the guys who think that women (ahem, "females") are completely different from men, and not humans. This use of "female" de-humanizes.

I never felt any way about the word "female" until I was on another blog and a guy chimed in an said that, in his experience, most of the men he knew that used it did so as a sort of substitute for the word bitch. He used a few sentences to illustrate:

Whenever I hear somebody use female as a noun while referring to humans, it is an immediate sign to me that whatever is coming out of their mouth will be deeply rooted in misogyny. I have yet to be wrong.

I cannot recall a single instance where a guy referred to women as "females" when they were not an insecure and awkward person.

Japanese prosecutors only prosecute slam-dunk cases. For Japanese judges, acquittals harm their careers. It is a perfect storm of either railroading the innocent or not bothering with criminals who adequately covered their tracks.

See Canada's shame, Jian Ghomeshi.

There are variations of this that wouldn't bother me, but my issue is that the guy is conflating feminism with a particular set of traits he values. Say you like confident women, OK (although this does tend to bother me because if you understand feminism you understand that women live in a world that tries every day…

I can sooooo relate to this!!! As a male feminist with a very strong mother and awesome, fearless sister, I am very well acquainted with the problems you females go through. My feminism was activated at Lillith Fair a while ago and ever since then, I will NOT stand idly by while my sisters are denigrated by the…

I really want to like him because I almost really enjoyed his Vice show BUT he just oozes sexism and it really turned me off from his stuff. I know Vice is quite inherently sexist in and of itself but his show just went out of it's way to objectify women in a way that didn't at all add anything to the content of the…