The city reporter (a woman) and the business reporter (a man whose parents loved him) rolled their eyes.

I tried to bring it up afterwards: He tells me it was just a joke. BECAUSE, natch, SEXISM IS HILARIOUS!!!

AND HE HAS NEVER BEEN IN A CAR WITH ME. EVER. IT WAS JUST SOMETHING HE FELT WAS DEFINITELY TRUE.

At a recent newsroom meeting where editors were debating whether I should travel to a city 7 hours away for a story, my younger male colleague (sports desk) baldly informed the room that this was terrible idea since “ChaseOM is a terrible driver!”

This occurred at my alma mater, Syracuse, in the mid-00s when it went from Orangemen to Orange. It has since come out that Nike was behind the entire thing, and for good measure, nearly every non-Syracuse fan still says FU to Nike, and calls our teams the Orangemen. We also don't correct them, well, because of this: ht…

Let me add, though, that I think you're right to say that coaches say and do a lot of things to the mean who play for them that are also vile and reprehensible and that should also carry consequences (although it almost never does). There's a lot about jock culture from top to bottom that ought to be changed. Any move…

Holy shitttt never knew there was a term for this.

I've seen this happen again and again - the only thing that surprises me is that the others in the group believed the victims in this case.

That really sucks. It isn't new, though. When I was a teen in the 80s, we still had some 1960s era hippies floating around. Some of the guys in that social group would profess feminism, and say all he right things, then mercilessly hit on very young teen girls. I looked like a teen girl, and it was awfully nice to…

This is why I don't give a shit about attracting men to feminism. I don't give a flying toss if feminism has a marketing problem. I don't care that you don't feel 'welcomed into the community'. For too long popular feminism has been more concerned with it's image and "collecting members" than real action.

Ugh. I grew up in a left wing town and there are plenty of people with great politics who are assholes. This guy sounds so familiar, a charismatic insider who uses a position of actual or moral authority to manipulate and harm others. I think this is an issue of how when people organize in groups, even loose…

I wish so deeply that this wasn't true - that somehow these guys aren't using deep-held, intense, passionate beliefs to get laid and abuse women. Because it's terrifying to think that we can't always trust our allies, and it's even worse to think that someone posing as an ally might go out of his way to actively hurt…

Oy, this is terrifying and depressing, and the phenomenon of 'macktivists' seems to be getting more and more prevalent as feminism has been getting more mainstream attention. I recently got an Okcupid message from a guy who went on about being a feminist, then made a rape joke in his questions. When I pointed this out…

I can tell you're a commoner because you think a royal would concern themselves with polishing anything. That's the maid's problem!