I don't know about you, but I would never want to marry (or to be) a guy who felt emasculated by a proposal. I think for any proposal regardless of circumstances it's a good idea to be close enough to know what the answer will be beforehand. I still think you're better off being rid of any guy who'd feel emasculated…

I think that on average anyone who takes the proactive role in a relationship is going to run the risk of winding up with someone who is more reluctant to take the initiative. I can't speak to your particular situation, but it might be that you and your ex just didn't have the right relationship, and it wasn't a…

I think there's also the possibility that some guys aren't good at initiating things, so even if you ask them out and they have a great time with you and really want to see you again they don't know how or feel afraid to ask you out for a second date. I'm not saying you have to pursue or anything if you feel…

As someone who fits the second trend (lack of initiative), sorry, I didn't mean to communicate lack of interest, but I can't blame you for interpreting things that way.

Sure, Jesús loves me and he knows my name, but I don't understand why so many random evangelicals suddenly seem so concerned about the secret affair I'm having with my Guatemalan gardener.

I know I'm stereotyping men to some extent, but having spent a long time around them and being one of them I hope you'll excuse any prejudice I might display. I've tried carefully to differentiate between all men as a group and the percentage of men who display anti-feminist behaviors. I just think that given the…

The patriarchy, speaking broadly and only for myself, is the set of societal beliefs and practices that treat men and women as separate groups with separate attributes, and generally though not universally privilege men over women, rather than treating both men and women as individuals with individual attributes and…

(As a veteran consumer of certain rad-fem blogs and forums that completely disallow male commenters, I feel pretty comfortable in stating that making Jezebel a woman-controlled space that feels safe according to women's judgment is not an unreasonable policy.)

That may be why some men feel alienated on Jez. However, I feel that it's important for women to have a space that they control and where they set the rules, given that pretty much all open comment forums on the Internet otherwise devolve into YouTube-level or local-newspaper-quality back-and-forth accusations of…

I am a rich privileged white male traitor who has defected and is selling out his side even now. Aren't I pathetic? After all that effort we spent to stay on top, I prefer being on the bottom. Also, I am a total sexual deviant. I like to sex plushy unicorn stuffed animals, stray pieces of driftwood that somewhat…

Well, thank you, I'm very flattered by your sentiment, but on the other hand you have no idea what I look like IRL or much of an idea of my personality, so I'd warn you to be careful.

(To be fair, I'm intentionally being a bit over-the-top, partly because I'm disappointed at how few men identify or are expected to identify as feminists, and partly because I think Hugo Schwyzer is an archetypical "Nice Guy" — predatory at worst, self-serving at best — who is trying to co-op [sic] the rhetoric of the…

I can't speak for ladies' complaints, but as a man I can note my dissatisfaction with the expectation that any pro-feminist effort by men needs to be met with or is primarily motivated by a cookie (or to be more precise, some nookie). These kinds of efforts should be supported by men because women are people, not…

Because guys need cookies for being reasonable people. Being guys, they are physically unable to navigate the kitchen well enough to bake cookies for themselves, as that is women's territory.

What was your complaint? And what kind of life do you live such that many areas of it fit that description?

Ok, so there's this entire industry where tons of very attractive women will strip their clothes off and pose naked either for free or will actually pay a photographer with no appreciable skill to take photos of them to keep for himself? Is this seriously a thing?

Guy With Camera?

Ugh, dinner or beer as compensation? Sorry, that just sounds so sleazy to me. I don't mean to judge the models, it's just that that makes it sound like more of a date than a professional arrangement.

"In Denmark, many parents who want to adopt have to complete a course of IVF treatment first." WTF?!?! Also, GrumbleTits? I really hope there's a good story behind that…

Rawr, I'm a woman and I'm going to read about how men suck. Yay me! Or not. Maybe I'm a man in my early 30s who (emphatically) does not have children and does not feel like an adult in any particularly meaningful way, although I definitely play the part of one. But Deadspin is totally the male equivalent of Jezebel…