Sweet fucking baby Jesus, what is going on with that dress? Tacky, tacky, tacky, cheap, cheap, cheap. Oh, and let’s not forget that god awful ponytail...

Not related to the topic, but I love your handle :D

Damn, that was so fucking vicious :D

All of the stars :D

I feel you so, so much. Almost all of my relatives are dinosaurs when it comes to at least one sensitive topic. “Oh, but you’re young and inexperienced, you just don’t know anything!” The only one that I can really talk to about these things is my brother. I find it very difficult to make friendships, and that’s made…

I absolutely agree with you that sometimes - correction, very often - discussions about misogyny can be impossible. I choose my friendships wisely and I stay away from misogynists, racists, homophobes, transphobes and every other flavor of bigot there is. Relatives on the other hand, you just can’t choose them.

A black woman might not get a lighter sentence than a white man, but would definitely get a lighter sentence than a black man. There are a lot of factors that determine how harshly a person is judged, race is sadly one of them, but so is gender, and to deny that is ridiculous.

I love the way you’re thinking :D

Yep, we’re just gonna have to agree to disagree there. If you can’t understand the complex ways in which privilege works, there’s no point in arguing.

Now you’re just twisting my words. I never said that gender is the only factor that determines the weight of a sentence, but to deny that it matters is just ridiculous.

As I wrote to several other people who replied to my comment with a similar response to yours, I am aware of the fact that women are in many, many ways disprivileged. However, that people can be simultaneously disprivileged in some ways and priviliged in others is not a novel concept. Statistically speaking, a woman…

Exactly. And just because some men are in positions of power it does not mean that I as a man have power by proxy.

Again, there is a world outside of the US where there *is* a draft and men (and women) have no choice. Or are you only concerned with the way things are run where you live?

Love your handle :D

When I use the term female privilege I am not saying that women are not at a disadvantage in a whole plethora of situations. I am just saying that in this particular situation, a woman is privileged over a man.

Definitely, and I didn’t say that it wasn’t the case. I am just saying that patriarchy is not upheld by all men, it is not upheld by men alone and that women are not the only ones suffering because of it.

Yeah, those too.

You can tell him that he can ask you to hang out whenever he wants and that he doesn’t have to be shy around you. How much that will accomplish is hard to say, but I think that knowing that he can be open around you will help him at least a bit. If you don’t mind me asking, how old is he and how long have you known…

I’d say that he’s probably just shy or terrified of asking you to hang out. I wouldn’t really call myself anti-social, but I am definitely very asocial, and combined with my introversion and social anxiety, it’s very difficult for me to bond even with people that I really like. If it wasn’t for a few close relatives…

I don’t really agree with you there. For one, patriarchy is not a system upheld by men alone - there are a lot of women with extremely sexist views and a lot of men with very egalitarian views. Second, it’s not a system that *always* puts men at an advantage and *always* puts women at a disadvantage. While extremely…