The age gap in feminism is frustrating. I think the younger generation (because they were born into a far freer era) cannot fully appreciate how suffocating and all-encompassing the power-differential the women of the 1960's and ‘70s had to break through was. Legally, women couldn’t refuse sex with their husbands,…

I’d wager to say it’s not even most older women. I am 52 and don’t have many friends my age who accept assgrabby (etc.) behaviour as Just the Way Men Are. Or who are dismissive of the #metoo movement - at least when we are talking amongst ourselves.

Women “of a certain age” -including baby boomers and gen x’ers- are the women who paved the way for millenials. You all need to educate yourselves and do it faster before the rug gets pulled out from under you. Familiarize yourself with the law and history.

second wavers fine with eroding abortion rights weren’t feminists to begin with—they were on a bandwagon and got off it when it didn’t suit them. Every movement and every moment has people who are truly committed to ideals, people who are genuinely interested but flexible as their lives change, and people who just go…

More or less, yes—and this entire article is doing what we have been plagued with for generations, pitting younger and older women against each other. It is frankly wrong about what second-wave feminism represents, although it does qualify “liberal” second-wave feminism as problematic without giving context regarding…

You are right. Younger women don’t realize that the concessions they get from men might be because they are attractive to men. When women grow older and aren’t considered “as attractive” to men, women realize that it was all bullshit in the first place.

I’m a man, and contrary to what the media would have you believe, I’m not living my life in fear of being accused of sexual harassment and losing my job. Why? Because I make sure my behavior at work is above board and professional at all times, and that I treat my female colleagues with the respect they deserve as…

“The majority of women in the workplace are not tender creatures and are largely adept at dealing with all varieties of uncomfortable or hostile situations,” Roiphe wrote in the New York Timesin 2011. “Show me a smart, competent young professional woman who is utterly derailed by a verbal unwanted sexual advance or…

That’s not my experience. E.g., my coworker is very confident and the best person at the job on our team. But more than once, men who were average or not good are listened over her saying the same exact thing. And I’ve pointed it out and they say exactly what you just said, that it MUST just be their good…

I partially manage a team that does this sort of analysis. And when an exec doesn’t like the numbers, they demand that one factor or another is changed so that the figures come out to whatever justifies their predetermined view.

I, for one, only watched E news for her and whenever she wasn’t on Daily Pop that ish was deleted from the DVR. I love my pop news, but if I’m watching E! It’s only for Catt.

I think in every workplace there’s just a little assumption that men are better. I mean I don’t think my workplace is particularly bad, but time and time again a dude says exactly what I’ve said but he’s instantly listened to after I was brushed off. Or a guy joins ‘s project, and it’s like his presence validates the…

just yesterday I was having a conversation with my closest male friend. He is a huge supporter of womens’ rights and loudly denounces men like Louis C.K. on social media.

I hate that the comment section has become the bridge under which the trolls live. It’s dark, slimy, and it smells terrible.

That picture of him needs to have crudely scribbled coke and cum on his face.

And the “but I have more respect for my dick” goes unspoken.

My favorite is when they think wanting to have sex with women = ergo they love/respect women

Is Bond your only example? Because you’ve been flogging that all over this post. Do you have any other examples? Feel free to list all the male leads in action movies who are in impractical, sexy wear purely for the sake of sex appeal to the opposite sex, not to make him the paradigm of a man’s man.

Good on you for cherry-picking and missing my point. The PREMISE can be as odd and imaginative as they want, but for the viewer to identify with the story and characters the BEHAVIOR of the characters needs to be based on what actual humans would do in real life.

Yep.