YES!

Calm down and re-read your replies. You do come off as sensitive and passive-aggressive. And "underhanded" is quite an accusation to make to someone who has been nothing but polite with you.

I think Erin was more trying to point out the way the original article was framed was troublesome. Being strong and fit is great. But the article basically makes it about being attractive instead of being strong and fit.

1. "Conventionally attractive" has never been an insult here. It's more like being a white male. There's nothing bad about it, but you're coming from a place of privilege and don't have the same experiences of oppression as someone who is considered "fat" or "unattractive" would. I am also conventionally attractive. I…

No, there are scads of amazing tween novels out there that deserve the fame more than Twilight. I grew up reading fantasy novels, probably thousands before I graduated from high school, and none of them were as insipid, stupid, or harmful as Twilight.

Hating Twilight is not just the current way to show how cool you are.

I didn't miss it.

Actually there's been work done that indicates that men are more susceptible to psychological strain and women are far less likely to commit suicide or get depressed under battlefield conditions. So this means, for the safety of the soldiers, we should take all men off the battlefield, right?

I'll have to look into those! Though I have never used a razor where you put in the blades yourself before, and I've pretty much stopped shaving my legs except maybe once or twice a month.

Just wondering, if those female soldiers you talk about are capable, why would it be a problem adding them to active combat? If the men can't place his priorities properly, he should be the one taken off the battlefield, shouldn't he? I don't really see a difference between a man prioritizing his male friend's safety…

I love how you say "women can't meet that standard". You mean most women, just like most men, can't meet that standard. But of course you know the physical prowess of each and every woman because you are just that amazing.

Asian here.

What's a badger brush?

Jezebel isn't pro-porn, I don't think. Anymore than it is pro-bacon, or pro-white fences.

Paying for dates is not chivalry. If you don't want to, don't do it.

Well, the purpose of a war is to win, for whatever reason. The purpose of a genocide is to get rid of a group of people. Neither the intentions nor the way they are carried out have much similarities, except when there's a war started for the sole purpose of wiping a group off the face of the earth.

Ehh, it's a little different to say you hate being around people smoking (I don't think anyone said they hated being around people who smoke at any other time) than saying you hate being around fat people.

You are free to think that, but everyone else is free to think you're removed from reality. There is a reason that self-defense is written into the legal code as an acceptable use of violence.

I think there's room for both. Like the movie industry, churning out mostly more of the same, with the occasional thought-provoking, groundbreaking film.

What the ever-loving fuck? If someone threatens me with a weapon it is totally okay to use violence on them.