One of the oddest things is that some of the most perceptive and intelligent guys I know would say things like this. Like “how is it possible this is going on right under our noses” - “do women all really have these stories, and this many stories”? I can’t speak for all women, as I’m sure there are exceptions, but…

Not censorship, but criticizing nonsense and refusing to buy or watch it? That’s not censorship and it’s much deserved. I’m tired of all this crap; I have seen a lifetime of it and want nothing more to do with these horribly sexist depictions of both women and men.

Apparently. As women laugh and laugh at male victims, clearly. A thing we often observe.

Your aggression does have a familiar ring to it, yes.

Is she your sweetheart now?

That isn’t the violent female gaze, sorry - you are still thick in the middle of the violent male gaze and don’t appear to know it.

Maybe nobody told you what the male gaze is all about, if you’re offering these as counterexamples.

Atwood is a genius. I liked this too, and the fact that around the time you’re thinking “this is exhausting, nobody could have lived like this for real, this is unrelenting”, you realize that this is all 100% accurate to life and countless people lived exactly these things.

AMEN. There is a solution: do not watch it, do not buy it, and even when you have choices a la Netflix, put your clicks and screentime onto something else, so they know that this crap doesn’t get watched as much as the good things you want to watch instead.

He learned substandard, shoddy history, or more likely, just wasn’t bothering to pay attention, and now is flummoxed that things he doesn’t know might be things he doesn’t know. Amazing.

LOL, you slay me! “I can’t think of anyone important besides the people I already know, because I’m too stupid to know of anyone else important.” Brilliant argument.

Were there any Important Women in History before Nixon? Did you actually ever take a history class?

LOL not only do you not know the essential women figures in history, but you don’t know the black ones either. Oh Lord, please go read a book and shut up; it’s tragic to see such a willfully ignorant person tapping away on the keys as if clever.

Can you name, like, ten women who were major, map-changing huge players in the course of world history, that everyone who took, say, a history course in 1948 would have known? Because I’m thinking you can’t, or won’t, and you’re totally ignorant, but you sure have a lot to say about how there are no important women.…

He doesn’t even know some of the most important figures in world history - that’s the most amusing part.

So what did Marie Curie actually DO, I wonder? It astonishes me that you’re able to come up with this list of dismissals while overlooking the wee fact that there are already SO MANY incredibly important women in the categories you claim are most relevant, yet you seem to have either amnesia or never read those parts…

Um, did you read even those limited books? Because, um, well... you may have missed a few.

The “culture vulture” criticism can itself become a way to push off against things that are no longer cool, so people can define their own aesthetic preferences as “better”. It’s hilarious. I’m sure grandma in her tacky woven shawl and garish earrings is the Problem we need to worry about here, to prevent the…

I find it interesting that it’s people from the Middle east and Philippines who apparently own the knockoff jewelry businesses that are robbing actual artists of their living, but the white people who buy it are the ones blamed in the article.

This is a sad day for me indeed.