"Can we do the same for strangers?"

"This is not a "shotgun" approach, but truly a scalpel, because the more subtle aspects are more delicate, more slippery — like the finest threads that weave though our experience and consciousness, often without own own knowledge or awareness."

"I can't see feeling like I look/am super fuckable after a workout. I can see feeling great, or like I can climb a mountain like a BOSS. But sexy? It just doesn't compute for me."

And as a proper Northern gentleman, I bow and take my leave. :-)

"They impact functioning on various levels. Some social, cognitive or mood oriented."

if you, like others here, are blaming the "patriarchal, misogynistic culture", you are blaming society.

one has nothing to do with the other. If you have issue with the classification, take it up with the APA. Besides, that changes little regarding my concern for concomitant disorders.

This is a fair point. On the other hand, I only just joined kinja recently. I might have said similar things about those cases.

"I have a huge problem with people blaming his actions on mental illness. "

he was seeing 4 therapists and having periodic wellness checks. People with Asperger's don't get wellness checks. So there is that.

Because it is just as valid as claims that misogyny alone made him do it. In fact, I never said either alone made him do it. All I said was there was more to it than misogyny and mental illness likely played a large part.

And by the way? You filed this under "RAPE RAPE", so stop back-pedaling and pretending that isn't EXACTLY what you meant.

Moved my comment to the right place

*sigh*

... Rate p? Rate... My peen? Is he inviting commentary on his dick?

"But the comments here paint that as Jezebel is raging like a rabid dog on a bender. That's extremely telling to me."

That's a fair point, but I'm not sure slapping a new label on something will result in that education.

"Basically, those are people who likely just wanted to be able to argue that you were wrong and then went searching for any evidence they could, rather than ever being open to it being problematic."

The misogyny is 'a' thing. Not 'the' thing. I mean, you say it yourself:

Yeah, I agree.