My #1 rule of internetting is: don't feed trolls named after crappy 80s bands. Feel free to ignore me, but it's made my internet experience far more pleasant.

I would ask Melissa, if her marriage is so about respect, what would happen if the situation were turned around and SHE was the one who demanded sex from him, or took her frustrations out on HIM, or forced HIM to look and act a certain way, to cook and clean and serve HER at her whims? How would Joe the Gorilla react…

There's something really disturbing about thinking of these kinds of situations as examples of "mutual respect."

It may very well be rape if she is legitimately scared of what will happen if she says no. At a bare minimum it's coercive, manipulative and unhealthy.

"it's about making your partner first in your life"

Remember where they took confessions from convicted rapists and quotes from men's magazines and had people guess which one was which and everybody failed miserably on it? Yeah, the quotes from her book remind me of that.

The issue isn't really about liking rough sex though. She said her husband demands sex every day so she gives it to him even when she doesn't want to have sex in order to keep him from getting angry.

I would have thought mutual respect would extend to respecting when your wife says 'no'.

And only if you're a woman. Men get to be first in their own lives. (In one of the excerpts she says she let him take it our on her because he's stressed at work but if he gets any flack from her, he blows up. I think I'm quoting pretty much verbatim, too.)

Well of course she doesn't think it's about rape. She doesn't know what rape IS.

You might want to read up on some feminist theory if you believe that feminism is only about women making choices, especially if you think it is about accepting every single choice a woman makes, including the ones made while clearly being emotionally manipulated by a psychopathic husband/abuser. Also, fuck you.

dieting clogs up your brain with all its obsessive planning and calculating.

I went to Planned Parenthood to get birth control and there was a woman on the sidewalk screaming at me the whole time about how Jesus loves all babies. Which is totally fine with me, I'm sure he does. And it's not like I was going to waste my time explaining to her my real reason for being there. But then she…

Not to make any extra trouble for the heroic escorts, but an evil thought just crossed my mind. I wonder if any aspiring drama students have ever honed their improv skills by approaching such praying/preying fanatics by shrieking with apparent delight and approaching one or more of them, throwing their arms around…

Do not even begin to talk about prostaglandins plus endometriosis. In my college days I used to faint every month from pain. And get bloody noses. Cramps all the way down my thighs to my knees. Kidney-stone-like pains radiating through my back. Thank god for Jack Daniels.

This explains it! I suffer from prostaglandin overload and had cramps that would cripple me for a good fourty eight hours. They also gave me more bowel movements. I have been on the pill for five months and I don't get cramps at all anymore. I also don't have those horrible bowel movements. Just a question. Does…

Sorry douchebro, but lying about what you've said isn't very convincing. And I've been had? You don't even know what that phrase means, do you?
What my fulcrum analogy demonstrates is that you are an idiot who is making things up on the internet and claiming them as fact based on the expertise that you have based on…

Or how about posting less bullshit?

I'm not going to engage him, but bless those of you who did. I do not think I have ever seen a better illustration of mansplaining (and normally I'm loathe to use that term).

You're right, you're right. Of course you're right. I just get a little overheated when I see an insult to both womanhood and physics at the same time. ;)