P.S. This is why I asked her - because this was one of the responses I got to asking her:

Comments like mine reinforce stereotypes about feminism? I followed this article over from Jezebel (where it was cross-listed) to find people spouting off about how men are oppressed too. That has nothing to do with anything in this article. All that my comment did was ask Kat if it was always like this while acknowled…

Holy shit, way to prove me right. Seriously?!

It's untrue? Be sure to let me know when all the guys at a construction site catcall you. When a bunch of guys on the corner give a commentary on what you're wearing, your body, and how you ought to be smiling.

Then perhaps you can tell me all about how sad it is for the poor mens that they get stuck running all the…

Oh god this old argument again. All of these things you are angry about? Feminism would love to fix them, no seriously. You know why more men die in industrial accidents? Women haven't been allowed to play. And please don't act like you are oppressed because the patriarchy pays more attention to breast cancer. That's…

Oh my god, Kat. This is a great article, but my first wander over to Jalopnik. Is it always like this? Are they really this "what about the menz"y? I think I need to nopetopus away from this comment section, yikes!

Women might have different needs than male drivers but the color pink is not one of them.

Ah, but it isn't a two way street and it isn't a level playing field. That's kind of the whole point about institutionalised oppressive frameworks. It's not that unfair messages about or towards men aren't publicised, but rather there's an increasing acknowledgement that the playing field is very much tilted.

Yes, they do. Is it a problem? You bet it is. However, the institutionalised nature of misogyny means a disparate impact.

Why do people never understand this? Sheesh. Thanks for writing this.

Women as a whole or women who have other traits in common, Dick? Because that's the issue here: universalising the experiences of women to lock them into some sort of "woman demographic." You need to start talking about intersections here. Age and class are two big ones you should immediately be considering.

the idea that you can both love and criticize something seems to be one of the most wild ideas ever presented to the masses.

As I like to say, is it so terrible that we can now see African-American women on television who aren't playing the sassy maid or the jive-talking second hooker from the left? That's one (racist and sexist) "artistic vision" I don't feel bad about seeing in the dustbin of history.

My favorite comment from recent acticles about this subject was one guy claiming that "a very fit woman" could EASILY do the Milo Manara Spider Woman pose, and that the real problem is that Western women have gotten so fat and unathletic that we as a society don't even know anymore how flexible female bodies are.
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Something that the people making these kinds of arguments can't fathom:

Please don't be transmisogynistic and cisnormative. Ruins the nice Feminist article you wrote.

No, sorry. Consumers do not have to have the talent and financial resources to "make their own" in order to criticize the things they love. Movie critics do not have to make blockbuster movies to be able to tell you that the dialog was awful. Very few people have all the skills necessary and the thousands if not…

Yeah, this drove me insane. Yes, Spider-Man and Spider-Woman both have butts. Yes, both those butts are located near the tops of their respective covers. No, this doesn't mean even slightly that they are in the same position.

Because CLEARLY those are the only two options.

Thank you for helping to shoot down the comparison between Spider-man on a curved surface somehow being the same a Spider Woman on a horizontal surface. I tried to point that out but closed minds were not having it. What's really sad is that these are the same people who swear up and down they know comics art.