This is exactly why part of me hopes my feminist writing won't get picked up, or that people won't see my blog, because if I succeeded at it, this might...sorry it WOULD happen. And I'm not sure getting rape threats and death threats on Twitter and everywhere else is something I want to deal with on a regular basis.…

You have a good point there. I'm not saying the exact same thing as you but I think it's less a case of ignoring women's emotions, so much as seeing them and thinking they're way more intense or overblown than men's emotions OR seeing what they want to see in a woman's eyes. I believe there was a study recently about…

This is so true. I always hear men around me say, "I wish a woman would be direct with me!" and then I disagree with them on something openly and respectfully and their fragile egos can't take it. I am pretty blunt by nature but only once has anyone told me that said honesty was sexy. I wish more men thought like him.

I think her problem is with his saying this is a male issue, just as you appear to have a problem with it being portrayed as gender construct. I'm an introverted woman and I totally get where you're coming from. I'm dating someone who keeps texting, calling, emailing me every day, sometimes multiple times, and even…

With his skin tone, the salt and pepper is so so right.

And I have her lipstick shade! I was so proud we have the same taste.

So true. I recently heard of a man raping an even younger child in the U.S. And two people, including one person I grew up with (gag) who consumed and sold child pornography. But the cops attempting to pay the father after his five year-old daughter was raped literally made me tear up 30 seconds ago. I mean, what the…

If there's one thing that's worse than being a lonely cat lady it's being followed around by a demanding dickhead at worst and someone inoffensive but incompatible at best. At least lonely cat ladies get to do what they wan

It isn't nothing either and I think there has to be a better smarter way to provide spaces for women than what this gym is doing. They're giving women a token. They have to invest in a separate space if they want to rectify a problem and get more female customers.

A nice meeting in the middle would be talking about goals a couple months in and I can understand why she wouldn't want to wait to find out some of these dealbreakers. But I also sympathize with what you're saying as someone who has been on dates with 27 to 30 year old men who clearly want to know right off the bat,…

Yeah, I didn't actually read his entire article, you got me. I essentially have agreed with you about what the gym should do. So I don't really get the adversarial tone. We only part ways in terms of the level of passion for the issue, clearly.

I'm not saying it shouldn't be done. It should, but I doubt he would accept that.

Yeah, I'm vouching for TyrannosaurusBataar here. Some of us just can't start out at certain higher weights, we have to develop the ability to work up to the higher weight and then do fewer reps. Have some patience for us weaklings.

Portion wise, that's not a great analogy because two weeks out of the year is not comparable to being deprived of a third of gym time. I'm not arguing it isn't wrong but I'm arguing that the level of injustice isn't what you're purporting it to be.

If you clicked on the links you would find that the complaints are about men commenting on their bodies openly/and or giving them absurd exercise poses to check them out. I don't know how prevalent it is. I've only had it happen to me a couple times. But these women weren't going to the gym to look hot as you say. It…

In terms of rates, they could lower them but it is only a tiny fraction of the year so I doubt it would make much difference, but yeah, they should do it. The gym isn't doing anything that great for women, giving us a couple weeks to attend the gym sans men. They could make better money if they divided the gyms, one…

Concern over superficial things like number of times you had sex compared to so and so or number of times your partner orgasmed compared to other men or women they've been with is ridiculous. No wonder some men treat sex like video game that has to be won instead of an intimate fun time to be had. It would be…

That's exactly what I thought! I'm a little disappointed. That image doesn't really correlate because you assume the notches are partners not the number of times. It's hard to find an image that really goes with this story.

I agree, you can have all the sex you want but if it's not good, even mildly so, it's actually more frustrating than if you didn't have it. I'm not sure what you mean with the hangover because you could have great sex that leaves you so spent the next day that you don't want to crawl out of bed.