No kidding. Racially ambiguous like the white queen, white prime ministers...

I don’t really think that’s the worst (or really average) of what goes on or the kind of talk that boils the blood. Might not get mad about ‘bitch, please’ but being called a cunt or the like might make me choose both option a and b.

By “less bs” and “less easily offended by things that are not intended to be offensive” do you mean ‘women who will not challenge or confront you on your own bullshit’?

Exactly. Why get mad and rail against the women who are just trying to pay the bills? Because it’s easier for guys to get mad at a model than at the company they want to buy shit from anyways?

But again, it’s not the booth babes who ‘assume men are stupid’ it’s the marketers. Writing columns about how shitty booth babes are, as opposed to writing articles about how shitty marketing practices are is wrong headed.

You just reminded me of this awesome bit of Canadiana:

Yawn. Get over yourself.

I don’t know if it’s a Canada thing, or a my area thing, but we don’t get flavoured tobacco here, but flavoured tea leaves. They’re great actually. And apparently don’t have any tar or nicotine so it’s just smooth smokin’.

Ha! I can imagine the 80's educational video for boys: "Similarly to werewolves, women around the world fear the full moon and the inevitable gush of blood that follows it."

Me too. I was pretty excited having had mine in about the middle of my cohort. "Guess what Mom?!?!" with a big smile on my face.

Totally agree with your response, thank you. More visibility and awareness of intersectionality (acknowledging that we should be well beyond this right now) on mainstream blogs and among activists is needed. However this has to be done, as you say, through education and dialogue. Not that people don't have a right to…

Yeah. Don’t think it’s appropriate to start snarking her on how much fat/muscle whatever she has on her body. “Terribly unflattering”? Really? Picking apart her attributes to determine which parts are ‘flattering’ or ‘unflattering’ is not helping the issue of unhealthy representations and discussions of women and…

Yes, the I HAS A SAD-Man factory. I knew I should have returned that package.

Oh and you better believe I just youtubed that shit and am dancing up a storm in my livingroom!

It’s the very same! Yes! I changed my screenname a while ago from nemesister (a babes in toyland album) to this.

I experienced this for about 2 years and tried various ways to ‘get him to understand’ that he was treating me like shit and being manipulative and emotionally abusive. Got nowhere with him. He was perfectly happy to be an abusive asshole hiding behind his carefully crafted ‘victim’ identity. He could scream at me all…

Meh. A lot of people out there are smart, well-adjusted, non-asshats and they must have parents too. I think there’s still hope.

I don’t know. There’s a lot of media out there telling boys/men to be terrible to women and conform to all sorts of negative gender stereotypes that I think it would be really hard either way. Growing up, a lot of my male friends were involved in the same high school sports team. All of them, including the really…

Because raising boys would be that much easier? Then you have to contend with making sure your little man doesn’t end up being some misogynistic asshat.

Totally in her corner for 2016!