I just scanned through every comment, even the pending ones, and nowhere was anyone saying standards ought to be lowered for women. In fact, the majority were saying exactly the opposite: if women can pass the standards, awesome! If you can find these people saying that the standards should be lowered so women can…

I’m a “needs numbers and stats” person, and have always been of the opinion that men and women have more differences within them than between them. Human behavior between those two genders are two very overlapping bell curves. So no, we may not disagree on the level of infrequency. That’s why I said frequent or…

Who is calling for quotas? Who is calling for standards to be lowered for women? The Defense Secretary has said that every service member would have to meet the standards of the jobs they wished to fill, and there must be no quotas or perceptions thereof. The women who wish to join certainly aren’t calling for quotas.…

That’s what’s so strange; their kid is so young. New parents get their brains hijacked by those hormones that are supposed to keep you from abandoning or killing your baby, so for them to just hand her(?) off like that and go on a killing spree is super bizarre.

Probably because it happens infrequently, so people are kind of surprised when it does and immediately leap to “the fuck was she doing there?”.

Hooooooold up. The last part of your comment rubs me the wrong way a bit, since there is currently a lot of racism going on with people being afraid that any brown person has one foot in Isis already.

Oh good, I’m safe.

Men are stronger on average, yes. Men are taller on average too. In fact, since the average difference in height is 5 inches, one could say men are far taller on average. The average height of a man in America is 5’9. Are there women who are taller than 5’9? Yes. Are there women who are the height that is considered…

Yeah, I would take the Marine Corps report with a hefty grain of salt. If you look at the methodology, that report was all kind of fucked. Sample size was too small, it was just a head-to-head competition with no standards (for men or women)...there were lots of problems with the experiment. It was kind of “set up to…

Right? I have a malignant narcissist in my family, and she is nowhere near this entertaining (while being simultaneously horrifying).

I hope you don’t get attacked for this, as you don’t seem to just be a sexist asshole who doesn’t think women can hack it, and are not being abrasive or condescending in your comments. Do you know why this decision doesn’t sit well with you?

I wonder how that biopic is going to handle that? I can see them either glossing over all of her actions toward her daughter that resulted in their relationship crumbling, or painting her as a total monster for them. And while she definitely could be an absolute monster, she was also struggling with mental illness. I…

If you would like to keep that view of her, I don’t suggest watching her daughter Lisa’s documentary, or read any of her interviews.

Right? He may have been tall and built for his age (though 5’7 really isn’t THAT uncommon, for a twelve-year-old boy) but there is no fucking way that they could mistake that face for the face of an adult. That is a baby-face, both structurally, and expression-wise. Look at him. He is chubby-cheeked, still has that…

Don’t listen to them. Men absolutely can identify as feminists, and are necessary allies.

Oh, definitely.

Terry Crews!

You have no idea who this person is, or what she has done to “fix herself” as you see fit. You don’t know her. You have no idea what she is really like. You just don’t like what she’s saying on the internet. But somehow, you have the authority to declare her a “broken person who has clearly not made an effort to fix…

Stop. Telling. Her. That. She. Needs. Therapy.

It was a simple question. That kind of thing has happened before on Jezebel, especially when issues such as racism/sexism/religion/violence against women are being discussed. I see that my tone was unnecessarily snarky.