Dude, this isn’t Saudi Arabia, although you have just parroted exactly the usual rationale for the gendered apartheid practiced there.

I get my hair cut at a place that caters to dudes who are lawyers and stuff. So it’s not cheap but it still has that no-nonsense feel of a dude product.

Feminism — a catch-all term describing many aspects of the struggle for gender equality in society.

I suddenly realized how to understand anti-choicers — they really DO think a fetus is the moral equivalent of a born person, not because they value the fetus so much, but because they value the born person so little. When everyone is just a symbolic chess piece anyway, it's easy never to think about the human cost of…

I don't know if this will help, but — any advice that starts with "just" is liable to be horrible, because if it really were that easy, you would already be doing it. The real world has very little "just" about it. And people usually know that in their own lives, but are insensitive to it in the lives of others.

I should hope that the fondness for Geena Davis displayed on this thread would disabuse you of the notion that she is objectively unlikeable. But I also get really sick of people — even here, on an ostensibly feminist website — obsessing over how much we supposedly hate certain actresses. Nobody seems to obsess over…

I'm with you. If her acting "leaves something to be desired" I have literally no idea what it is you desire from an acting performance.

So, if it is literally impossible (by your definition of terms) for there to be such a thing as a libertarian state, how exactly do you propose to bring about your stateless anarchist's paradise? Everybody just wakes up one day and spontaneously agrees with you about exactly how society should be organized/not…

It's fine if you THINK that "war is murder" and "taxes are theft" but that is your opinion, and you can't use your opinion to argue for your opinion. It's a logical fallacy. You can't say "because taxes are theft blah blah blah" because we first have to agree that taxes are theft, and we don't.

Except theft isn't defined that way — just like killing someone during normal wartime combat is not defined as murder. I've argued with a lot of libertarians who say they consider taxes "theft," which sounds really dramatic and all. But can you point to a single society on this planet that doesn't collect taxes or…

I'm amused by your assumption that women are all tender delicate flowers newly arrived from Planet Girl and have literally no idea what happens between men when we're not around. Nope, we have no husbands, brothers, fathers or male friends. We have no trans women who know first hand what it was like on the other side.…

It doesn't work within a literal-minded evangelical framework where God and heaven have to be literally and objectively true. It involves seeing Christianity mostly as following the teachings of Jesus, more similar to how you might follow Buddhism.

You can be a Christian Existentialist, though. If you want to be.

I liked it a lot. All 3 novels of his belong in the "scarfed up in a few days" category. Vivid imagery, weird ideas, and human characters who made me feel for them.

Even if you were correct about the benefits of using "non loaded" terminology, what would actually constitute non-loaded terminology in your opinion? "Pro life" is loaded by them in their favor. "Anti abortion/anti contraception" is kind of long for casual usage.

Actually, I don't buy the whole basis for your reasoning. I was once arguing with somebody about same-sex marriage, and referred to her as "acting like a jerk," upon which she pulled out the fainting couch for a massive attack of the vapors at how horribly I had violated the boundaries of propriety. I was incensed and…

"Anti choice" is very accurate, since they are usually anti-contraception as well. (see Hobby Lobby case for reference.) "Pro-life" is a euphemism, which they chose for themselves, and I don't use it, because it means accepting the framing of my opponents.

Interesting. I have literally never once in my entire life had anybody other than creepy guys attempt to make me uncomfortable for wearing a skirt. And I have literally never once in my entire life observed anybody other than creepy guys make any other woman feel uncomfortable for wearing a skirt.

Anecdotes are not really compelling evidence, though, is the problem. You're telling a story about something you weren't even there for and expecting that we will all take it as gospel truth. Then, when we point out that such an anecdote is not particularly compelling evidence, you claim that we're calling you a liar…

But who are these "anti choice feminists" who are "everywhere"? I have never met these people. I don't see any evidence that they have ever existed except as strawwomen conceived in the fevered imaginations of anti-feminists.