As long as patriarchal religions underlie societies, this will continue.

It’s Warren Zevon. He was brilliant, and it’s a song criticizing the evils of the “boys will be boys” mentality, and it takes it to its logical conclusion.

I had a guy do similar to me, 6 dates and I broke it off as I found myself becoming increasingly intimidated by him and how intense he was being. I was super careful to let him down gently, told him I just “wasn’t feeling it” and from what he had told me, we had different life goals (his included many children, mine…

Think real hard about whether that fact actually undermines the OP’s point.

Whelp, this is the first time this year I’ve had to break this one out.

I like your frank realism and am interested in your work because of that.

If you were a queer writer, or a woman of color writer, would you want someone to read you because they thought they were doing something dutiful about power structures?

So I should read more books by women, especially women of color, I just shouldn’t talk about it or tell anyone I’m doing it, which would include encouraging others to do it.

My friend was molested by a very popular teacher in Jr High School. Everyone to this day, including her, sees him as a huge hero.

In my town, the molestee usually ended up marrying the molester after she graduated. Nobody saw this as unusual or wrong. This was the ‘90s.

I’d think that, at least into the 1980s, instances of this type of abuse would number into the thousands.

I was at Horace Mann back then, back when I was theoretically a boy. I knew just about every one of those teachers and administrators — Inky Clark, Tek Lin, others. Mark Wright was my classmate. My God is right. I don’t have the slightest doubt that it’s all true, every bit of it and worse.

I’ll take a guess - because there are parallels?

She stole all the photographs of tribeswomen from other photographers, presumably via Pinterest (they’re All quite popular on there). She probs hasn’t visited the tribes, or knows anything about them not from Wikipedia.

The expression you are looking for is kulturális kisajátítás.

Because she’s a huge attention whore, that wanted head pats for being so ‘edgy’ and ‘progressive’ with her ‘art’ and what a wonderful thing she is doing for these tribes. Excuse, I have to go throw up now.

The only thing worse than Australians, bedbugs and herpes are white South Africans.

A pretender at being Chinese,

To be fair, my comment-writing career was going nowhere as Chad Waspington III.