You know, you've become a parody of yourself when you use the word "libtard" unironically.

Actually, studies show that most abusive men do not have a diagnosable mental illness.

I think there's plenty of people (not just men) who accept that misogyny occurs in theory. The point is that on a practical level, too many people refuse to believe that it is a deeply embedded cultural issue, and refuse to acknowledge the everyday instances of it (see: rape culture). They prefer (or have been taught)…

You're missing the point. This kind of violent misogyny IS rare, but it highlights a cultural trend of more mundane misogyny and eentitlement towards women's bodies. Also, no one just does things because they're evil. As the saying goes, even Hitler liked dogs. Writing off someone's actions as just "evil" makes it…

Yes, you are being insulting, because you're attempting to say that the valid criticism of offensive speech today is just as ridiculous as objecting to educating students about historical racism.

You seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of what "gender" means. Gender is not your body. That is your sex (and that's actually more complicated than just male and female too. There's plenty of intersex people who fall somewhere in between the two traditionally recognized sexes, although they may identify…

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This seems to be common in queer people. As one of my straight friends observed, they could stick a rainbow flag on a cockroach and I'd squeal with joy.

I would have to disagree with you there. Most misogynists aren't violent, its true, but still non-violent misogyny deeply affects women—through things not getting jobs or promotions, harrassment, verbal and emotional abuse. I do care if people are misogynists, even if they keep the worst parts to themselves. The…

I just don't agree with contributing abuse to mental unhealthiness. For one, there are plenty of people who perhaps are more emotional or more angry than the norm who we know in everyday life, and those people's actions aren't called the result of mental unhealthiness. Why try to soften the blow for abusers? Secondly,…

Actually, most men charged with killing their partners do not have a diagnosable mental illness. We can probably say they're not entirely healthy, but "not entirely healthy" doesn't mean their actions are actually caused by a disease.

Rodgers was never diagnosed as being ASD. His mother is not a doctor. (He was also never given a definite mental health diagnosis, but we'll go with the assumption he was mentally ill)

Studies of both abusive men and men charged with killing their partners show that most do not have a diagnosable mental illness. While Rodgers did, and that certainly fed into his actions, most men who perpetuate violence against women are not sick and their actions cannot be blamed on a disease.

Not really. The point is, he didn't hate kids. These beliefs don't come out of nowhere. He hated women because the culture he was immersed in told him he was entitled to women and it was OK to hate them if he felt rejected by them. We don't live in a kid-hating culture. We live in a misogynist culture. The misogyny…

I was speaking relatively. Even men who do not themselves harbor a hatred or dislike of women still have a very hard time accepting that a pervasive culture of misogyny actually exists. Yes, not every man thinks the same way, but I would say over half either are misogynists or are the sort that don't believe the…

Everyone feels rejected at times or irrationally angry. The problem is that these men feel entitled to women's selves and bodies, and that is a pervasive attitude in our culture.

Actually, studies of both abusive men and men charged with killing their female partners show that most do not have a diagnosable mental illness. We can agree they're not totally mentally healthy, but that doesn't mean that they actually have a disease.

Mentally healthy or not, you can't say these people are delusional or don't understand the laws of cause and effect. They are responsible for their actions and understand their own motivations. The deepest issue here is misogyny, and that's been proven time and again. Numerous studies of both abusive men and men who…

Are you serious? The problem was he hated women. He hated women and he wanted to kill them. The mental illness may have made it easier for him to go from "I hate women" to "I want to kill women" but mental illness does not create belief systems, it plays off ones already present. And the larger point is this: Even if…