This doesn’t make anyone a terrible person. One person’s opinion is not a fact and the views in the above article should be ignored.

We are trained to hate ourselves and each other from birth. I used to consider myself a “cool,” nerdy girl. I wasn’t into “girly” things and I wasn’t “silly like other girls.” I also referred to myself as “girl” way past the age of 18.

It was not until I read some feminist books about devaluing myself by devaluing…

If they condemn him they would have to acknowledge that there are men running around (pun intended) who hate them enough to randomly kill them, just because they are women and there is nothing they could do to keep themselves safe, except not go outside.

This video explains it pretty well:

Yeah, I really don’t get the increasing focus on gender. I was born in the early 80s and a lot of my toys and clothes were gender neutral. They weren’t “boy’s clothes” or “girl’s toys” they were children’s clothes and children’s toys. When my sister was born 4 years later things were very different. Even Lego was now…

You are not obligated to go to a wedding. I have said no to quite a few lately and have not regretted it. I do regret the ones I have attended. I really don’t like them and I am always bored to death at them.

That nearly had me spitting my coffee all over my keyboard. I need more of these.

Hear, hear!

I am fat now, but for my first 25 years I was relatively thin and I don’t like it anymore if a man fetishsizes (I hope I spelled that right) my thin body than my fat body. I want a man who actually wants to know who I am, as a person.

I think that not being pretty or being fat might also be a get out of slavery free card.

You want to worship me?

Well that’s easy:
- Build grand temples in my honor
- Pray to me
- Bring me tribute
- Don’t forget the wine

I can speak for Feminist Current and it focused on facts and the impacts society’s views of gender have on women.

I hope that study is properly peer reviewed.

But for argument’s sake, let’s say it true. Are these differences the result of our gendered upbringing or are they innate, since our brains are very adaptable?

I came here to write a comment much like this one. The advice to LW1 is absolutely appalling and bordering on abusive itself. And that is the advice Jane gives to some who has been abused and now has to watch that same person abuse her friends. Seriously, what the fuck!?

“Stop worrying about having friends...” “You…

I am on Feminist Current quite often. I don’t visit Reddit much though, because I originally got to know it as a home base for MRA’s, but I’ll check it out.
But it is refreshing to see some facts injected into a more mainstream community,

I have never seen research that supports that assumption, plus our brains are plastic. The brains of taxi drivers look very different from trapeze artists. The beauty of our brains are that we can form new pathways to support newly learned skills and thinking patterns.

The Root copies liberal, white feminist ideas, practically word for word. I have no doubt they would agree with everything in this post.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. It’s rare to see some common sense and actual (biological) science in the comments here. Listening to the whole “male-brain” / “female-brain” argument feels like listening to climate change deniers and people preaching intelligent design.

I get the impression that some people feel like…

This reply will be so far down that it will likely not get read, but I just want to say that watching the video made me realize that as a person with autism most of this is beyond my reach. I can’t hear what someone says and at the same time be completely present in the moment. I can’t read faces and listen at the…

Apart from being able to buy pants with decent pockets and comfortable shoes you mean. Women’s “choices” are mostly decorative and not very functional. I’d say try it for yourself. Nobody is forbidding you from wearing whatever clothes you like outside of work.

Don’t say that. I nearly got fired, because I refused to wear a skirt to work. Belief me if your boss tries you to force you to wear a skirt you won’t think women’s office clothing so freeing anymore. Some women are even forced to wear heels. That’s even worse.

How do you know she was lying and he didn’t actually rape her?