It’s not a major coincidence that the people most likely to criticize Emma and Anon above are often huge fans of Ayn Rand and cannot begin to imagine why a person might sacrifice their own comfort in service of unnamed others.

One of the things I value so much, reading this story, is how clearly it shows the way that reporting someone isn’t always and shouldn’t be assumed to be a horrible excision of deep personal trauma—that the author reported him with the primary goal of keeping other women safe.

Wait, wait wait. Someone from *Berwyn* is worried about how the outside world sees it? You mean this place?

Any place where a small group of people have unquestionable power is where this will happen. Lots of money definitely helps.

Is the showbiz industry much different from the Catholic Church or college football in that regard? Just look for any place that’s generally insular, where there’s easy access to kids, and where certain ranks are regarded as practically infallible and you’re likely to find a lot of child molesters.

If the percentage of false accusations are in the single digits, then saying “women don’t lie about rape” is not just as stupid as saying “half of all rape accusations are false.” Saying the former is making a generalization based on overwhelming evidence that, more or less, supports the statement. Saying the latter…

And if anyone was actually making that argument you might have a point instead of a pile of disingenuous horseshit. False rape accusation are pretty rare. False rape accusations that lead to actual investigation are rarer. False rape accusations that don’t fall apart under investigative scrutiny might as well be…

As a modern Feminist that loves to argue I’ve never once said that false rape allegations never happen, nor have any of my friends. They do exist, at the same level they exist for everything else. On the other hand, when my boyfriend was mugged, nobody thought he might be making it up for attention, even though there…

Because if rape accusations are fake, then there’s no rape problem and they don’t have to deal with it. I really think that’s the root of it. It’s also the double-whammy of slut-shaming — the idea that women have sex, regret it, and call it rape. Suggesting that an accusation of rape is fake not so subtly calls women…

nobody says they ‘never’ happen, just that the percentage is so minuscule that if you’re betting money on whether an accusation is legitimate or not, you’re a fucking moron (and about to be out some dough) if you take the ‘fake rape’ route.

If you’re in a female-dominated line of work and you’re not making buckets of cash, then every day of your life is sexism. Every day.

Women are socialized to be as appeasing as possible, and taught to be as conciliatory as possible at the risk of their own well-being. It’s a tremendously difficult to undo, but one of the things feminism is supposed to do is help women to stop constantly considering other people’s feelings over our own.

There were some idiots that, particularly during season 1/2, totally missed that and thought that they were supposed to want to be Don Draper.

I’m not sure why some feminists feel the need to mock domestic things like ironing, cooking, baking, etc.

If he is developing dementia, then he will never truly pay for his actions, because he’ll never be cognizant of the guilt and shame he should be living with. He will get away with it in every way that really matters. God this sickens me.

It’s like someone cursed him to only speak in the rambling, incoherent gibberish that comedians use when they do impressions of him.

What the fuck did I just hear? It sure wasn’t a denial. I think word salad is too polite a term for it. More like word sludge.

For me, it is much less daunting to ask a woman to remove her purse from the seat next to her than to ask a man to close his legs because the chances that I will be met with hostility and aggression from a man are much higher. The men who responded to this MTA campaign are whiny pathetic creatures who do not…

The thing is though it’s not like manspreading technically takes up more than “one seat” -unlike putting your bag on another seat, the dude in question is encroaching on the space in front of the seat of the person that’s next to him. So a “one person one seat” campaign won’t address the problem. Also the term…

but those signs are also part of the campaign. they cover the whole etiquette spectrum