Ah, but I wouldn't be surprised if the murder was committed in order to obtain pictures he could post to 4chan. It's not like he sat on those pics. He posted them *immediately* after killing her, within minutes. Those are trophies. They love to show off their trophies. If he didn't have anyone to show them to, if he…

I see that post-Fappening, the bar for wins has been set very high indeed.

I have been really concerned about her. She isn't a healthy kitty, and it isn't like they can find others that look just like her to give her a rest.

It's an effort to ensure that men who aren't rapists and never will be to identify with rapists by convincing them that they are all equally at risk of being accused of rape just because they're men. Men are the only ones who can control other men, so it's crucial that they never stop erroneously identifying with…

I never hear men and society being chastised for being shallow when it comes to BBW. Cruel, abusive, and dehumanizing, yes. Simply wanting to be able to move through life without being attacked for her appearance is very different from a demand that men stop being attracted to the women they're attracted to and start…

Ah, then you're not talking about romance novels. The only reason I'm talking about romance novels is that that's what the original commenter was discussing.

There isn't a lot of consistency with the way that's presented, probably because there are no such things are werecreatures so the author can do whatever is convenient. I have read ones where there were Omegas and they were ostracized, and some where the Omegas were the most powerful for Reasons.

It makes a difference in the argument that men have the same reasons to fear women that women have to fear men if the women in these examples are consistently committing crimes with male partners. Men do have to be wary online, but unless another man is secretly waiting for them for some reason, they have orders of…

Yes, men are also vulnerable to assault from other men. In the cases you named, the victims were tricked into believing they were dealing with a woman and only a woman, and a man showed up unexpectedly. That doesn't mean that the women are not also culpable for the assaults, but it does mean the situations aren't…

Oh, sure. The whole "I want a man to lead me" thing sounds more fundamentalist Christian than PUA anyway. It isn't quite over the top enough for an MRA. When they impersonate women they go too far, because they never engage actual women and are only doing impersonations of imaginary women that they've all agreed upon…

I'm not standing up for women so much as for romance novels. Romance novels are kind to men, and pretty much love letters to them, which is why the disdain with which men who have never read any regard them is particularly sad. There are plenty of women who mouth the same PUA nonsense that men do, but they're all…

Beta is not used in a negative way in romance novels, mirroring the PUA view like in this letter. It's either a meta way to describe heroes who aren't notably alpha and are nice people, or in universe in some paranormal pack structure thing, where it just means second in command. You hear the term alpha a lot, but not…

Maybe my clarification was eaten.

I always despised it and resented it being forced upon me, so it's a specific thing I have been careful with.

I get what you're saying. If she said "no" to any of these things, of course we would stop. I mean to indicate that we do not preface every hug with "May we hug you?" and every swipe of a washcloth with "May I touch you with this washcloth?" There are perfunctory tasks that a parent performs for a child that do not…

My personal feeling is that I find perpetrating any level of physical violence against my daughter - no matter how little it hurts, it's still violence, because the violence is on the part of the person committing it and doesn't reside in its impact alone - to be inconsistent with the message I want her to receive…

The character is supposed to be a 16 year old girl whose mother has disappeared, so I don't think you're supposed to consider it normal.

If you plan to have children, I do think you need to get on the same page with him about what you guys will do to protect them from his family's racism.

Scheduled c-section that I would've asked for anyway but "had" to have because she was breech AND FORMULA FED MY DAUGHTER.

Louis CK has a bit about it too.