Or mutts! Mutts/All-Americans are awesome!

I understand the feeling of wishing a bystander would step in. I was once waiting for my sister outside her office in midtown, and a homeless (I assumed, from his appearance) guy began to accost me. When I gave him the finger instead of a smile, he began SCREAMING at me that somebody needed to fuck me up the ass. …

You mean Rape-aXe? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-rape_device#Rape-aXe

Initially read headline as "casually rapes a rape joke", and I got really confused.

No, I'm saying that good people don't spend 100 years consistently infringing on other people's bodily autonomy, and that if you do spend your life doing that, other qualities you have that are positive won't make up for it.

Still 100 years of shitty behavior. Good qualities don't give anyone a pass. Doesn't matter if I help elderly people cross the street if I'm also drowning kittens in my spare time.

Sir, whoever diagnosed you as hypomanic should be slapped. As best as I can tell from your descriptions of your spending, you were and possibly still are in the throes of full-blown mania

Haha yep, except that you're likely to get caught in the hornet crossfire. Plus, what if they're actually tracker jackers??

See, I'm loath to put it that way, but if you feel the irrepressible urge to touch someone without their consent-which you still absolutely shouldn't do-stick to something ridiculous like pencils in their hair. Still not ok, but less not ok than sticking your hand up their skirt.

Ah, but think of the innocent bystanders/allergy sufferers!

What kind of protection? I've heard bobcats work pretty well. Toss 'em at an assailant, and run while they're trying not to have their faces clawed off. OH. Wait...you're serious? Carrying protection on a plane? Oh dear...

Commented in wrong place, nm

Better throw in 1% of your female relatives too. You know, just to be safe, statistically speaking. Can't have the MRAs accusing us of bias!

Oh it was pretty skin-crawly at the time too...

All the time. When I was standing with friends outside a bar, and a completely unfamiliar guy came out, grabbed me from behind, holding his arms around me and whispered in my ear, "I like you" I didn't complain or make a fuss, because the first thing I would have heard was "Well, why were you at a bar?' Today I'd do…

But see, if women would just keep themselves in vaults at all times, they couldn't be raped!

wouldn't that be sourcing ALLIGATOR skin from Louisiana?

Obviously, the answer is that women never need to do anything after dark, ever, because precautions.

What is going out "too late at night"? Are women never allowed to go out and have fun with friends, at night, after work, without being afraid of being raped? What if I told you that the majority of rapes occur during the day? What then?

To be perfectly honest, it's a really, really shitty metaphor. You can move your car. We can't un-be women. To put restrictions on a gender in the name of safety=NOT OK.