I never understood why this is supposed to make things better. "But he grew up in times when people were homophobic, it's not his fault." "But she grew up as a kid in Nazi Germany, it's not her fault" "But he grew up in an Evangelical Christian home, his sexism isn't his fault."

I needed to mute it and only watch the subtitles I couldn't bear listening to the German neo nazis.

Thanks for the answer. I only watched a very short clip but the way the guy who 'interrogates' her treats her is abysmal. I suppose it was Zimmerman's lawyer who tried to paint Martin in a negative light which would have 'justified' his murder.

I know very little about the American law system, I just watched a video of her giving testament. Is the witness required to end every single sentence with Sir or Madam?

I think it's kind of scary. You know, I fully believe in the construction of gender and bla bla bla but then I look at the cold hard truth and I wonder if maybe the people on the end of the masculinity scale...just suck? Because it happened everywhere the same way in society from Papua New Guinea to Sweden

As I said, I just came home went to this thread and the first thing I did was dismiss a bunch of stupid comments about how we're sexist to men and crap.

I just went to a workshop on heteronormativity today where we talked about gender policing...

stupid question of the non-native speaker: why is it a adorable and not an adorable? Because of the "?

Oh, it's not hatred. It's only rape with consequences, right? No reason to get mad and certainly not to talk about it #notallmen.

I'm German. A while ago we had a similar thing. A well known politican made a sexist comment and women respondend with their experiences of everyday sexism on twitter. The reaction was pretty large scale. It was the very same thing. But what happen was utter shame. The entire elite media of the county, ALL the most…

Women are socialized to be nice and polite and to swallow down sexism with a smile and encourage men to go on. We are socialized to take pity on others and to care for others. We are socialized to feel guilty when we don't. We are fucking socialized that it is #notallmen and we are seeing ghosts.

Firemuschamp who tries to be all 'nice guy' here was posting 'obvious' comment to me. Nice to see them employ different tactics.

I wanted to reply to you to make your father read this post/threads. Then I came to the part about not having sex before marriage and realized you probably stopped talking to your parents long ago.

Thank you. You should have told her nice, quietly and politely that you thought that would be best for both of you.

I want to star the shit out of your comment.

Why do you hate it? Remember when that neo nazi went on a killing spree and murdered Sikhs in a temple? Yes, he was an unhinged radical but nobody denied he was a neo nazi and tried making it about mental illness.

My father has only started to understand that the world is different for me simply for being a woman than for my brother and that misogyny is part of my life when I began pointing it out to him on purpose.

You should dismiss those assholes.

I had that discussion with somebody here who is advocating for gender neutral public restrooms and I made the argument that women are vulnerable at times and need safe spaces.

I don't understand. If somebody mentions racism I don't start complaining about the horrors of racism being pointed out. I'm humble and shameful and take responsibility for the racism that is still ingrained in society and that I profit from whether I intend to or not. Historically, white people have brought…