I thought it was offensive when the officials by the goal line kept making that same gesture in St. Louis today. Enough is enough.

The tone of your article is idiotic. "Let's imprison people because what's inside their heads makes me squeamish! Yay!"

Um, the damsel in distress is a "classic story" because it is archaic and based on sexist stereotypes that once were taken at face value, but now need to be questioned and transformed instead of continuously perpetuated. Which, incidentally, is exactly what Sarkeesian's point is. Funny how that works!

Probably because he's not actually interested in toppling someone or changing anyone's minds, he just wants to get attention by preaching to his own choir and being as vitriolic as possible. My assumption is that he enjoys being an ass.

and sized 15 feet that are used, unknowingly in fetish films. "OH YEAH :paddles foot: OH YEAH"

Take some tips from Bobby Hill

It gets assaulted on stage and told somebody else's song was better?

Next you're gonna be telling me she isn't actually Dr. Zoidberg!

NEEEEEEEEEEEEEVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He is so beta, he won't make any decisions or plans or take responsibility for anything. I find myself longing for an alpha man.

"I think Anderson's piece is wonderfully, passionately written and worth a read, but I also think the problem with it lies in not the facts, nor the tone, nor the frustration, nor the wishful thinking, but rather with the resignation that the answer is, always, to change something about us, always us.

I love seeing men characterized a "shrill" rather than "vocal" for things that would get a woman characterized as "shrill" in a heartbeat.

Reminds me of when the Church of $cientology quietly took over an anti-cult information site and removed all mentions of themselves from it.

Did you know that James Dobson believes it does? He wrote all about the time he used a belt to beat the crap out of his little (as in mini) dachshund Siggy in his book "Dare to Discipline". I actually have a copy of a first edition that I picked up at a used book sale to read it for myself. It's there.

Just to be clear, this isn't an "on one hand, on the other," debate. The evidence is pretty clear that physical punishment is at best, not effective, and at worst severely damaging. That said, I agree that the episode handled this with some humor and grace. I also understand it is not always easy. (As a parent, there…

This times 1000000. I am sick of reading this through some bullshit lens of sensitivity to "parenting choices." Fuck being sensitive to a parent's right to beat his kid.

Agree. I was not spanked a lot but when I was, it didn't really change my behavior, it only made me resentful that I was subjected to such a punishment. I try to lean towards techniques that have a longer impact. What does my child like or enjoy? Well, that's the first thing that goes if she misbehaves.

Corporal punishment doesn't even work on dogs. Why this is still a debate baffles me.

Instead of implying that there's a morally superior approach to the issue of spanking,

As someone subject to whoopings: they don't work. They do make you rather angry though.