The sensitivity to this is entirely justified and understansable. You can’t deny the context of the broader country.

Yes it must, MUST be sexism. Or rather, women know themselves and other women, remember being children, etc, and think a girl might be more likely to overreact than a boy. Men are going to be more sympathetic to female expression of real pain too. Ask any child how their fathers thought of their pain vs a sisters.…

You’re writing about this as if the point of harsh laws is changing the lives of the individuals punished. It’s not. It’s scaring the shit out of the parents who would otherwise not give a shit. Who’s going to take care of her kids? There’s not a chance in hell she was taking care of them.

But what if you’re accused of saying or doing something in this one on one you did not do or say? What is your recourse today? The assumption predicated on stats that women don’t lie? 

Here’s the thing, if you are risk averse, you explore all options to reduce risk and then you ask what is the cost of reducing this risk completely. The MeToo movement increased the risk of working with people, full stop. We can argue fairly easily that those increased costs are valuable. But then you introduce…

The US really does not have an issue with assimilation in comparison to Europe. And hispanic folks are the least likely to struggle with assimilation.

If you care to hold this man to account, follow the proper channels. A whisper network is all well and good when you have no power. When you do it’s just soviet era bull shit, easily manipulated to settle scores and knock off anyone you please.

A group of anonymous individuals with no accountability casually sharing unvetted information that could ruin people’s lives and then making that information public and letting the cards fall where they may. I wonder how my fellow supposed liberals would feel if the government did the same thing?

The history and context you describe would never pass a court of law. You’re no different than a conservative who would presume the guilt of any muslim involved in a conspiracy or a black man gunned down with “a gun”. You are following your own bias to presume the guilt of an individual. We do not base our system of…

Men have so rarely even been granted the privilege of indifference in the history of humanity, that the notion it mattering now millions of years into our evolution is ridiculous. There are no statistics on how hours spent with a father dictate happiness. And many fathers around the world do not have that privilege,…

Partnerships should be equal, but this equality does not dictate equal sharing of the same tasks down the line. In fact, my households that endure arrive at their own balance. That balance may mean changing the nappies and making food the same amount. It may mean one spouse makes a lot more money and one spouse throws…

That Gillibrand thinks a few years cheaply pursuing every media shitstorm was a good strategy says everything about her.