One day I hope someone writes a comment on a blog about sitting across from me on a train and refers to me as sooooooooo thinnnnnnnnnnn in an attempt to insult me.

There is no correlation between gender equality and the percentage of women vs men in colleges. Women represent a (slight) majority of college/university students in the majority of the countries on this planet, both Western and non-Western, but it does not change the fact that women are still disadvantaged in all…

“What’s so amusing from a male’s point of view is that women in the first world have - literally - the greatest life and opportunity that women have had ever in known human history.”

Just because you, a wealthy white woman, “saved all [your] little pennies” so you could quit the work force, it doesn’t mean that feminism has done its job and women are no longer oppressed and everything is hunky-dory. Your are, in fact, implying that if onky all the other laydeez did it like YOU did, they wouldn’t…

Wait so you want us to be against the STORE CLERK in this situation? Who is probably making around minimum wage?? Yeah, it probably wasn’t the nicest thing to say out loud, but jeez, s/he probably meant it literally. It literally must be nice to have that life. It literally must be nice to be able to make that choice…

Well, I’m not going to go out of my way to praise you for enjoying your hobby of baking at home and call it a triumph of feminism. It’s like you expect someone to give you a cookie for what you’re doing, when you can clearly bake them yourself. I grew up with a mother who became a physician in India in the ‘70s, a…

Thank you, pinkie, for your repeated posts and for making this all about you rather than a remembrance of the feminist struggle. Buried here is a clue about why people react to you as they do. Buy it.

It was 1975 when the Supreme Court ruled that women could not be excluded from jury pools by requiring them to actively register for eligibility, while men were automatically included as potential jurers. That is, states ensured that few women would be available to serve on juries.

FFS. Someone else, choosing to do something else, advocating for the option to do something else is not “bitchy”. It’s also not a judgement on you; stop it. Not everything is positioned as commentary on your lifestyle.

Do you think using a gendered slur like “bitchy” to describe women who you feel don’t give you enough support for your life choices is helping your case?

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I second this. From a purely small picture standpoint, I also feel uneasy on behalf of anyone who stays home homemaking, while their partner brings in the money. It is putting yourself in a pretty delicate financial position, no matter if yours is the strongest relationship in the world. And when I’ve raised these…

I thought the post did a beautiful job explaining why. You get to choose that, happily. And the reason you get that choice is because of the women like the writer's mother who angerly raged against that when that was the only thing they had. It's fine when it's a choice. It's not fine when it's not a choice.

Honey, you need to stop. You are seriously over your head in this discussion or you are a troll. You refuse to grasp what anyone is saying and keep repeating the same points. I’m guessing that you are insufferable and that contributes to the lack of empathy people have when they give you attitude.

You are REALLY missing the point, or you are just trolling. My mother’s generation did not have a choice. They stayed home because they weren’t taken seriously in the job market and actually could not do anything without the permission of their husbands, hold credit cards, get birth control, etc., etc.

Because the opposite, women who are vilified simply because they want to wok still exists too? Or have no interest in cooking or baking? Or don’t want kids? Because women still are expected to do most of the housework even if they work? Because women end up having to juggle kids, elderly parents and work and end up…

No one enjoys being judged, so I understand why you would complain about that. What I don't understand is why people like you also seem to want to hear that what you do is a feminist act because you're doing it by choice and not just because you have to. It's cool that you get to do what you want but you can't get…

Ah... yes. ‘Choice’ feminism. How cute!

“It’s just bitchy.”

You’re really not sure why, or you’re coyly “not sure why?” If it’s the former, consider re-reading the article.