What you said has always been the key driver to how I do it: Not expecting conversation.

Being a guy, I can never really understand how this feels for a woman, but what surprised me was the cumulative feeling of disgust I felt as the video went on. Each comment was compounded by all the comments that preceded it. I can only imagine what that must feel like at the end of an entire day.

I can claim no understanding of how my gender thinks this to be appropriate.

"white leftists defending brown conservatives in ways that they never would defend white conservatives solely because of being on their own not-racist ego trip"

Are white men allowed to criticize any religious ideology? It seems to me that it is possible to criticize many of the horrible ideas found within Islam, without pushing an alternative ideology as a replacement. Guys like Sam Harris do this all the time, and for the most part, that is what Maher is doing.

I don't know. A religion that not only advocates but still carries out stonings and hangings of women who are sexual in ways that don't please the men in their lives and villages (as happened just last week and probably every day even though the West doesn't usually hear about it), that blames women when they are…

Are you seriously comparing picketing a funeral to murdering someone?

When I read about white leftists defending brown conservatives in ways that they never would defend white conservatives solely because of being on their own not-racist ego trip, it makes me want to retch. Maher makes my nose wrinkle but he is criticizing theocracy because HE CAN, whereas apostates are killed every day…