Ah, I can’t edit the comment but I meant healthy *open* relationships. If you’re losing friends over your views on this, you might know people in healthy, open relationships that don’t want to share with you or get to know you better.

To be fair, it sounds like people in healthy relationships might not want to be your friend or share that info with you.

It’s probably a waste of my time but I’m in a good mood today.

Well, I did mean policing women you *only* know on the Internet, but even with IRL people there’s a wrong way and a right way. Like, if your sisters had to go through getting creeped on by 4chan, hopefully you wouldn’t tell them “if you didn’t want this, you shouldn’t have posted swimsuit pictures.” That’s how the…

Uh, I never said anything to indicate a positive worldview. The point is that telling women how to behave on the Internet if they want to be safe does more harm than good, regardless of what they wear. But I do hope that a lot of the worst people on twitch are kids like in this article, who address their issues or…

it shouldn’t come as a shock

I get that women have to hear the whole “cover up if you don’t want attention” spiel. I’m sure that it can be maddening as many times I’ve seen women told they were dressed too provocatively when they were wearing perfectly normal clothes.

OK. The reason people are getting upset at you is because your comment doesn’t help anyone, and it’s also a harmful viewpoint. Like the other commenters said, it doesn’t help because Kaceytron and every other woman ever have heard some form of “cover up to avoid attention.”

What good is going to come out of the comments you’re making here? Put aside your argument for a second - what do you think it could accomplish, that made it worth saying?

The sentiment seems to be that “women belong here too.” That’s great, but women already know that - the problem is a few jerks who disagree. A video like this doesn’t really do anything but remind women that they’re different in a place where they want to be treated like everyone else.

Women want to be treated equally. There was no special segment for men. It’s pretty simple.

No, the vast majority of employers will fire you if you use offensive language in front of their customers. When people say things like this, it really makes me think they’ve never worked in a professional setting.

As people have pointed out in other threads, it’s not the support so much as how he’s justified it. “One issue” is dismissive bullshit. Besides abortion being a basic right for half the population, unwanted pregnancies are also a huge economic concern. This is coming from the guy who pressed Clinton over and over…

When people say autistic like that, they don’t mean dedicated though. They mean dedicated to the point of being abnormal. You can assume what you want, but there’s a pretty clear negative connotation.

I would say when the effects of using the word are harmful. When you use “autistic” as a synonym for “obsessive” or “introverted,” it enforces the negative aspects of autism in a way that can make autistic people feel self-conscious about how they act and the amount of time they spend on their hobbies. I’m not…

Ugh, it’s like everyone awful from Gawker decided to troll the rest of the Kinja sites.

Have you told him directly that you want him to be in better shape, and the reasons why? That could potentially clear up any miscommunications about the seriousness of how you feel. It might be better received if you had some suggestions ready about how the two of you could address it together. I feel for you, my…

I don’t have experience with those two situations, but if these guys are mansplaining to you, I’ve sometimes had success by repeating their advice in a light-hearted, sarcastic way - “Oh, so that’s how you [do simple thing]?” Then the better ones will realize what they’re doing.

I’ll re-read Lord of the Rings sometimes when I miss the past. I think Tolkien did a great job of expressing that longing when you leave your childhood home, and then outgrow it.

That’s so exciting! Good luck. Even if you don’t find anyone tonight, I’m sure you’ll get some useful experience!