let’s see: you are bitter and resentful at women who dare to reject you. Yep you’re a “nice guy”. How many times do we have to say this: NO WOMAN OWES YOU SEX/LOVE/A DATE.

Dude. Do you really approach women on the street and ask them out? Because everytime I read some sob story about a man who can’t find a girlfriend, it’s always along the lines of “well I’m afraid to approach women and that they’ll think I’m creepy” I don’t know if you’ve heard but there is this thing called online…

I often wonder whether this advice column isn’t some big joke or some parody since the advice is so constantly awful. It’s like she does it on purpose.

Jane’s advice is always horrid but in the case of the Canadian-USian couple it really takes the cake. “hey you could die in the meantime!” “hey you could potentially not be fertile!” WHAT THE FUCK

Exactly. My ex girlfriend was five years younger than me (she was 24 and I was 29). Like, that’s not a huge age difference at all and yet, like you say, it made me feel OLD and we were simply at different points in our lives hence why we broke up. So I just can’t wrap my mind around the fact that some of these men…

Yep. I’m sooooo tired of this narrative that young women are super into older dudes who could be their father/grandfather. I like John Malkovitch as an actor but he’s just not appealing, especially NOT to young women the age of Chloe Grace Moretz. Unfortunately it’s not helping that there are young women with massive…

I’m not doubting your experience at all. I was simply pointing out that the men you call immigrants are in fact French

In Belgium where I live the vast majority of catcallers and street harassers are Moroccan/Turkish. And yet they weren’t particularly targeted by that law since the results are poor. I don’t understand why it’s somehow forbidden in liberal circles to point out that yes ethnicity/culture plays a huge part in street…

ok I assumed you didn’t know who he was. My bad. I still think his current behaviour is abhorrent.

Yes it’s fucked up that he did only 4 years. I was only 16 or 17 when he was judged so I don’t remember which arguments the defense used. Meanwhile OJ Simpson wasn’t convicted at his first trial even though he was clearly guilty so i’m not sure you want to play “my country is better” game.

It wasn’t. It happened in Vilnius (Lithuania) where Marie Trintignant was shooting a movie.

Perhaps you don’t know who he is so some context: before killing Marie Trintignant (daughter of Jean-Louis Trintignant, a famous French actor) Bertrand Cantat was a rock star, a “rebel”. He was very involved in left-wing causes, he wrote a lot of “progressive” songs. He spent only 4 years in jail for murdering his…

Wow I had no idea! This is amazing.

That law won’t work. Symbolically its important because it sends the message that street harassment is not ok but practically it won’t work. We have a similar law in Belgium and the number of fines/condemnations is incredibly low. Because unless the harasser does it in front of the police, where is the evidence?where…

We are not blaming immigrants. These guys are not immigrants. They’re French, most of them were born in France. Their parents came from North Africa. While misogyny and sexism are rampant in every aspect of French society, claiming that catcalling and street harassment isn’t mostly done by North Africans men is simply…

It’s interesting that your priority is about “what will happen to men?” instead of caring about women who are victims of street harassment and catcalling. And no Maghrebi men (who do most of the catcalling/street harassment) won’t be targeted. We have a similar law in Belgium where I live (since 2013) and the number…

What did he say?

What did he say?

two words: internalized misogyny

Dogville is the only movie I walked out of. The way Nicole Kidman’s character is treated in that movie is horrifying. The way those scenes were shot it was obvious that Lars Von Trier was enjoying filming them