I just read Nina Burleigh’s book about this! It illuminated for me how the story got twisted right away. Journalism in Italy is NOT what it is here, because the Mafia will literally kill you.

My heart aches for Meredith’s family who will never know what really happened. And of course for Amanda Knox whose life was turned upside down by a superstitious and inept police dept + a misogynistic press using femme fatale to sell a story.

For those who didn’t click on the Sean Spicer link...

This happens all the damn time. I live in NYC so I take public transport almost everyday and I take the PATH to get to work, which for whatever reason has a disproportionate number of confused people who have never taken it before waiting on the platform at any given time. People ask me for directions or I’ll show a…

Men do seem to have a complex intra-gender body language, consisting largely of strategic muscle flexing and just-too-strong handshakes.

Not as well wired for it and probably not as well socialised for it either-https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3111255/

it ISN’T creepy for a man to start rubbing a woman’s legs at a bar. it is creepy for a man to start rubbing a woman’s legs against her will at a bar. i think there is one of two thing going on here. you were open to having your legs rubbed and communicated this nonverbally, or, you were uncomfortable with having your…

That has nothing to do with anything I said. I wouldn’t know if I’m given more “leeway” for being awkward because I never see any of these men again. It’s not like they can tell that I’m awkward just by looking at me and decided to approach me anyway. I wouldn’t say I’m having an easier time than a socially awkward…

these are reportlinker’s stats for where people met their partner. 6% school, 7% thu family, 8% online dating, 9% sports, religion, or hobbies, 12% in public or at bars, 15% at work, and 39% through friends. the majority of times i’ve dated somebody is that they were a friend’s friend or friend’s friend’s friend ect…

Im not sure where this pressure is coming from.

OK troll.

Guy who has a screen name wondering if anyone is listening is incapable of listening to the dozens of people who are telling him the exact same thing.

Almost immediately after reading this dude’s fuckery, I ended up at a coffee shop where some mother fucker was lamenting how this chick who he befriended for the sole purpose of fucking won’t fuck him.

He’s the kind of guy who thinks online dating is for losers and is beneath him. Or that he hasn’t had any luck because he’s a dick, but would prefer to blame it on “the system” or the women.

Your complaint was....

Wow. I wish that I could read things this succinct and well written on a daily basis.

So you’re saying that male attention is *not* in search of pussy? Are you assuming that all the men who talk to women in public are gay?

#whataboutthemen

Counterpoint. King of queens. Schlub dude, hot wife. I can go on. I can’t think of any examples going the other way. You want to take the onus off men to figure out how to make themselves less creepy and put it on to women. Women are just doing their own thing and asking to be left alone, but dudes always be like…

I agree with some of your points but the others do sound like you blame women. You seem to ‘get it’ but then you drop the ball.