Exactly. My father did the caregiving of my grandmother, not his brother or his sister. That doesn't mean that there is a cultural expectation that it's the daughters who do it and that women aren't held to a harsher standard in this area. Hell, he'd be the first one to tell you that, and grumble about how messed up…

"(you fucking piece of shit dudes, if I find you I'm breaking your faces)"

And we know that spreading your legs on the subway and taking up room at the expense of others' comfort is rude, yet it's somehow biologically driven to do so, according to you. If it's the biological impulse to keep their testicles cool and the sperm healthy, you'd see few men using laptops or wearing tight pants…

And until *you* live in a woman's body and hang out with women and experience what it's like to be a woman on public transport, *you* don't get to declare that we're lying when we say we don't have the same leeway of sitting in ways that are comfortable to us, and that we've been harassed and slut shamed if we have.

Thank you for mansplaining to me what my experiences have been, and the experiences of every other woman on this thread. People also don't believe us when we say we've been catcalled, harassed, and assaulted. So. . .I wouldn't say you're in *good* company, but you're certainly in the company of a bunch of misogynist…

Actually, I have asked nicely and gotten the excuse that it was more comfortable for him and a refusal to do it. And it is rude to expect others to ask you to move when you should be making room anyway.

Then we'd never see dudes wear tight underpants, use laptops, or wear skinny jeans. I don't buy it.

Because I've seen too many instances of men not closing their legs and making room as the subway fills up, and a lot of people just naturally avoid the seats next to them. I take a bus to the city every day (and then have to go on the subway). The bus ride takes over an hour. The men on the bus manage to keep their…

No, no no. A man's discomfort is the cause for many sad laments. We need to convene a UN subcommittee on the pressing issue of sweaty balls, since they are super special snowflakes and are the only people in the world who are ever uncomfortable or sweaty, ever.

Because those people you're causing discomfort to would like to stretch out as well—and they don't because they are taking other people into consideration. You're out in public and in close quarters. That means you take the crown off, stop acting like the prince regent, and show consideration for others. Weird, I know.

You're being comfortable at the expense of other commuters. It's more comfortable for me to sit with my legs apart and to stretch out, but being a woman, I am not treated the same way you all are when I do it. While we're at it, other people would like to sit down and move about the train to get on or off. Even when…

I find it comfortable to sit in that position, but I don't. First, because women who sit in that position get a ration of shit, and second, because it's rude as hell to take up space that other commuters could use to sit or stand. It might feel good to you to act like a self-centered jerk but it doesn't feel great to…

You know what? On a subway or train or bus, it's a good policy to assume there isn't room. Those cars fill up quickly and what happens is that you make the people who are forced to sit next to you uncomfortable. Hell, it's more comfortable for me, a woman, to sit spread eagle, yet I don't.

Yeah, I seriously doubt all of these dudes have balls the size of dinner plates. If they do, they need to see a doctor.

And again, what does that have to do with the fact that this symbol—which means something completely different in this context and in this place? CA had a point. Again, this conversation was NOT about the original meaning of the swatstika or what it means in India or Asia. It was about someone trying harass and hurt a…

Yes, you "clearly stated" that you agreed with the writer BUT. . .and then went on to continue a failtastic derail. There are over a billion Hindus in the world, but this post was not about a Hindu temple or about the original meaning of the swastika. It's about someone who used the image—which has a very different…

I love this gif and want to have its babies.

This did not happen in Tibet, nor did it happen in India. If this was about someone freaking out over seeing the symbol there, you would have a point. It is not about that, though. It's about someone putting the symbol on a customer's food in the US, a place where the symbol has a very different meaning. It happened…

Also—the people who fly the swatstika proudly in the US? Are quite happy to promote ethnic cleansing/genocide when it comes to people of color. Enough with the straw men and the derailing already.

If you're going to stick to the facts, then stick to the facts. The Nazis had a policy of sterilizing black/biracial children in Germany and despised black people—they weren't as high in number as Jewish people in Germany, but you'd better believe that they were imprisoned, sterilized, used for medical experiments,…