If someone I didn’t know sent me that message, I wouldn’t assume it was a joke. One could also posit that sending snarky messages to writers of tepid reviews is a bit thin skinned. This seems like a case of everyone doing too much.

It’s the notion of the perfect victim. They see themselves as perfect victims, so anyone who acts differently can’t be a real victim of abuse. Women are expected to act a certain way, not fight back, cry a certain way, be contrite and essentially cower before their abuser to classify as a victim or to be believed.…

I wonder how much of them are real people rather than bots. I know there were a lot of women making videos on youtube and tiktok. I’ve also seen a few DV adovocats be pro Depp as well.

the majority of the looniest, nastiest Depp stans that I encountered were women (well, their profiles and pictures were women), and they were nasty, because (paraphrasing here) many of them were victims of abuse and now feel compelled to stand up for the most misunderstood victims of domestic abuse—men. Maybe they…

yes! so true! so many women defending him because (allegedly) they were abuse victims (OK that’s terrible) BUT somehow that motivates them to defend him to stand up for the forgotten victims of domestic abuse—men. I know both things are true but it’s the connection between the two that loses me.

Honestly I don’t think it has a much to do with Depp as you think. Clearly the men’s rights manosphere love this case because it gives them license to shut up actual victims. They can point to this case and say all women are like this. I think what matters more is Johnny Depp is a high profile name. These folk have…

for the hundredth time...what is it about Johnny Depp that incites this kind of absolutely feral psychotic response? I have had so many encounters with these whackos for merely stating that maybe he’s guilty because a UK court found it “substantially likely” he beat her, and HOLY SHIT you’d think I called him a…

I get the concern for power imbalances in relationships but sometimes the line between contemporary/intersectional feminism and “infantilizing/patronizing grown ass women who are capable of making their own decisions and viewing them as perpetual victims” gets a little blurred, I think. 

Not to mention how unfeminist it is to infantilize a fucking 24 year old woman like this by acting like she couldn’t possibly be of sound mind to choose to date someone older, but young men are fully capable of making that choice.

This article just set my teeth badly on edge. There’s a 22 year age difference in my relationship; we met when I was 27. For the first few years EVERYONE commented. It was fucking horrible. I just feel so badly for them both because that could’ve easily been me...minus the money.

That whole story and why people cared so much has always seemed so weird to me - I’ve never personally understood what the big deal is about the age difference. It’s not like she’s 16-18 dating a 42 year old. She’s in her mid 20s, and by every measure is an extremely successful and acclaimed actress. Are people…

Well, for one thing, saying “people who menstruate” isn’t “doing away with” anything. Just because you don’t define women as “people who menstruate” doesn’t mean you are doing away with the concept of women. You just aren’t using a definition of women that inaccurately implies that womanhood is defined by whether you…

I will never have children and I still don’t like the idea of doing away with woman/women, for any reason.

Which are compelling? Because this seems to be the crux of the op-ed:

Why does it have to be “women and birthing people”?  Why can’t it just be “people capable of birth” or “people who menstruate.”  Probably “women” shouldn’t be defined by whether you can give birth, or menstruate.

But cis women who are infertile are the first to point out that not ALL women can give birth, so I don't think you can really lay this on trans people.

People don’t like complicated, they like neat, simple categories. They like what they’ve always known and they don’t like change. They don’t want to remember that there is a whole bevy of different kinds of people out there with a variety of body situations and not everyone fits one type.

They don’t call us ‘women’ anymore; they call us’ birthing people’ or ‘menstruators,’ and even’ people with vaginas.’”

202X “feminists”: men are clearly superior!

ACAB now and forever. Fuck those pieces of shit. Fuck the cops. Whole department needs to be fired. It continues to piss me off that establishment Dems refused to properly support the defund the police movement and STILL expect our votes. Republicans have been able to accomplish as much being out of office as they…