Yup. Too many reasons, including this one: overheard by my boyfriend in the male locker rooms of his gym, some men discussing a young female gym-goer who was wearing fitness leggings (I repeat, fitness leggings).

"Did you see that girl? She was asking to be raped."

Nope. More like he decides he can take as long as he wants because nobody important is waiting. Like people on the train who don't care if they're taking up twice the space they are really allotted, because other people don't matter as much as their own comfort.

Just admit that you are afraid to stand up to your bro's when they act like dicks. it's okay, admitting your weakness is okay.

Mens' bodies aren't held to the same standards of perfection as women's bodies.

Men-only spaces, destroyed? What, like the government, universities, militaries, bars, offices of any profession except teaching school... the world, basically? We're destroying the world by wanting to be in it and not just stay locked up at home? You need the whole world to yourselves?

in other words: "I need to throw other women under the bus in order to gain male validation!"

When this starts happening, you can have your precious boy-only spot back.

"If I close my eyes and pretend there isn't a fire, it won't spread and burn my entire house down. If I acknowledge the fire then I know it's there and I have to run, and I feel ashamed to run because I don't want to admit I don't have control over my own safety."

But it's the 'principle' of it!

When I was in the Army there was a women's jazzercise class at the post gym. Small post, 98% male and only ten-ish women in the class. We did our class on the gym floor and on the second floor (like a balcony) the men lined up and watched us. After a couple of classes they shoved us into a handball court which was…

UGH.

Ugh, that is disgusting and absolutely is the kind of casual jokey misogyny that is fucking everywhere in our culture.

The interesting Thing I found is that these guys come here being assholes and as I said before, they are not 'trolls' they are misogynist assholes and nice guy assholes who aren't any less misogynist but when you click on their accounts you see them talking about cars and their work and their hobbies and while it is…

Serious question… Do you think that the Top 10 List from David Letterman, below, is related at the mild end of this same spectrum? These attitudes and jokes are of course pervasive in American culture. My Dad sent me this email string. It made me so sad and we are currently having an email standoff about it and…

Some days you just get tired of telling people obvious shit.

You forgot to add: "I don't think guys will like me if I call myself a feminist. I'm not a bitch". Or something like that...

I had a similar conversation with my college roommate's boyfriend. He was angry about 'women only' gyms. I couldn't make him understand that for too many reasons to count, lots of women feel vulnerable being in front of men when wearing gym attire.

From my experiences with being on that specific #yesallwomen thread I think one of the things I regret most is that Jezebel is not a safe space for ist commenters to speak their minds about issues like this anymore. I, too, had a #notallmen 'nice guy' write me a three page reply this morning telling me that I was…

Honestly, the most chilling thing about all of this is being afraid to leave my name on any of these websites or threads because I am actually afraid of being chased down by a crazy man, intent on harming me because I dared speak up.