I’d say it’s more a combination of America being a land of immigrants, combined with the strong push to colonize the westward lands in true fronteir spirit!

As a black person - note that what you see as “white culture” (e.g. American St Patrick’s Day, BAWSTON foolishness) is actually hated by the original people they took it from - Irish people hate American St. Pat’s

Yeah, the laws of Japan and the United Kingdom. Totally dictatorships with no freedoms there.

I used to work as a pharmacy technician for a large retail chain. I was floating a store located in a predominantly White upper class Connecticut town. I was working with a Black male tech and a White female pharmacist.

Seriously. I ask guys: if you were at a bar and you saw another guy with a really cool watch, or phone, or t-shirt with one of your interests emblazoned on it ... how would you talk to him? You can do that with a woman you find attractive too!

That’s not it at all, and you seem to be conflating multiple things at once. It’s not about The Rules. In fact, unless your rule is “treat women as people” then there are no rules.

Ugh, the rapping boy was the worst. THE WORST.

What are you talking about, any idiot—even the Taoiseach or a Teachta Dála—could pronounce Saorse Ó Riagháin.

I bet a Northside Dublin accent would beat that. :p

I was slightly (more than slightly, tbh) too old to be in their fanbase so I only know about their purity thing from South Park.

It’s Shakespeare meets Game of Thrones

Considering how many guys who I’ve seen be stupid jerks to women express surprise and ‘empathy’ to all the #metoo’s being posted, I think men simply have zero idea of what their actions do. If they never have to apologize or suffer for being assholes, what are the chances they do this shit and never think about it…

I think in part it’s to do with funding or other aspects.

Haha! Well, it was just a dumb non-theory:) My Guy absolutely refuses to watch people having sex in a movie (at least when I’m there), and that seems mighty weird to me. But he fills me in on the gore when I can’t look: “Aaah, yeah, Meteor, she FELL on it...... Yes, it went through his eye.......Mmm, no, he kinda fell…

Agreed.

What makes the fall so much harder of course is not only was she a victim of the State which she is now the head of but that she’s a person who for so long campaigned about principles and has sadly forgotten many of them in the name of “electability”.

No, we’re not talking about clashing personalities. You can pretend that sexism is this rare, blatant thing, but we actually deal with it daily.

It only creates a divide when one group says, “we’re subject to this behavior to an unusually large degree,” and another group says, “well actually, it happens all the time to everyone, it’s happened to me and my subjective experience trumps yours or any data you can offer and you’re wrong and you’re creating a divide…

Unfortunately there are a lot of men out there who immediately dismiss what a woman says based solely on the fact they are women and feel the need to ‘set the little lady right’, and there aren’t as many women who will stop them immediately when do it.

THIS. When I wasn’t on the right meds, I actually stood in my kitchen staring at my kitchen knives, thinking they were whispering to me to kill myself. Pretty sure back then I might have had some questionable views on people, too. As soon as I read about his onstage episode, I knew he was ill, and while mental illness…