I refuse to accept the notion that women should take a backseat to men in every aspect of life, including feminism.

Hear hear.

Just a heads up, "red pill" carries a very specific meaning in the nutjob MRA camp. As much as I love the analogy of seeing through the mental traps of patriarchy and gender binarism and seeing the code of the matrix*, misogynists and pickup artists have co-opted the terminology in a really gross way.

Yes. What you just said. All of that right there.

Look at you making my point for me. What are you doing to fix toxic masculinity? Other than the important human rights work of internet posts asking feminists to fuck off and die?

Seriously. This stuck up bitch would probably try and turn it all around if her date drugged her and had sex with her passed out body and call it rape. Womenz gotta be looking at the negative..

Agreed. Expecting women to sacrifice time and energy we very much need for ourselves to fix men's problems for them is toxic masculinity. I'm happy to be supportive and be an ally to men who recognize patriarchy as harmful to them and are working to change it, but they're going to have *gasp!* actually do the work…

Nice conversation I had with a fella on the street this morning:

In my experience, feminists are frequently very aware of the impact of toxic masculinity on men and are, in fact, the only people who actually actively advocate to free men from rigid gender constructs. If nothing else, most feminists recognize that true equality is impossible so long as affiliation with things…

Whether I spend my discretionary income on myself or my dogs has no effect whatsoever on parents who can't afford daycare.

I really don't qualify as a "rich," but I'm pretty solidly middle class at this point in my life, and I don't have kids to support. I was pretty weirded out by the idea of doggie daycare when I first adopted, but both my dogs are rescues who had severe separation anxiety, and I needed a place I could take them so they…

I miss Comment of the Day, because you really, really deserve to win a prize of this.

IDK, I mean, I'm not a woman but if I were just riding the subway by myself and some guy physically assaulted me because he found me attractive, I'd be flattered. I dunno why women gotta make such a big deal about a guy thinking they're pretty and then violently attacking them for it. It's a compliment, ladies!

Pffffft, speak for yourselves, inferior dog owners. My Buster is going to live to be at least 35.

Some young men film themselves raping an incoherent and near-unresponsive teenage girl puking out a bedroom window and are sentenced to apologizing. You Know Her Name. Rehtaeh Parsons.

And those three convictions are sentenced to BOYS WILL BE BOYS. Rehtaeh Parsons.

A guilty plea doesn't guarantee much of anything. You know her name.

What. The. Fuck.

sometimes i forget if narwhals are real or fictional, and then i google to check and i'm just SO STOKED every time i re-find out they're real.

Agreed. Keep trying to explain this to people.