You’re missing the key issue here—people aren’t arguing that putting spyware on your computer which another person uses is just morally wrong, they’re arguing that when it is very specifically “abuse” and Klein is very specifically an abusive partner. Abuse is a subset of morally wrong behaviour with a relationship,…

You turned it into a personal attack in your first comment—Cline is, in fact, a person. Me saying your actions reflect on you isn’t an attack at all: it was on you to get proper info before you publicly call someone an abuser for a non-violent behavior which is an incredibly common and incredibly understandable…

There are different kinds of abuse, yes. Reading your cheating partner’s emails isn’t, outside of a pattern of intimidation and control, one of them. Reading your cheating partner’s emails in order to justify leaving him after he’s choked you certainly isn’t one of them. You don’t have the authority to tell a victim…

Read people’s comments before replying. I clearly referred to “her own computer” twice. And, no, reading your partner’s emails is not, outside of a pattern of violent or threatening behaviour, “abuse.” It’s certainly not abuse when it’s a reaction to being choked. Again, abuse is not a catch-all term for all poor…

Cline does not “admit to having been an abusive partner.” She admits to behavior you view as abuse and she does not. Defining “abuse” as a twenty-year-old putting keystroke-recording software on her own computer, which her thirty-three-year-old partner sometimes used, so that she could establish that he was cheating…

No, you’re mistaken. The similarity you see there is coincidental—when people say “you’re a pussy” they’re absolutely using a vulva metaphor.

Donald Trump is, if not a rich New Yorker’s idea of a very rich man, a more generally American rich man’s idea of a very rich man, as evidenced by the fact that Trump voters were more than twice as likely to come from households with the richer half of household-incomes than from households with the poorer half of…

Don’t use it as slang for cowardice unless you consider women and specifically childbirth to be cowardly (in which case you should probably watch a woman give birth...) A woman did that so you could live and it was brave as hell.

Yikes! The conflation of social class with misogynistic attitudes towards women, vulvas, and the word pussy is an incredibly, burningly hot take on multi-millionaire heir-to-millions Donald Trump’s “pussy” comments. Maybe consider that misogyny isn’t especially a product of working-class culture?

Not to be confrontational, but you really should. Is it wimpy to create human life through enormous pain and effort? Pussy is 100% the worst metaphor for weakness patriarchy ever dreamt up.

People with less than average levels of intelligence deserve poverty and exploitation? Bold claim!

But? Drinking syrup out of a cute lesbian cup sounds like the perfect Christmas season activity to me.

No, the often-repeated claim you’re probably thinking of from 2006's The Female Brain was so thoroughly debunked that it was removed from all printings after the first edition.

They may very possibly be like that, but then the men you know aren’t representative of men overall—studies consistently show that men interrupt women far more than they interrupt men (or than women interrupt anyone), that men listen less attentively to women than they do to men, and that men talk more than women in…

Say what you want, but being lectured by their boss’s kid never made anyone change their politics. There’s no reason to believe that this handyman doesn’t have anyone else in his life who expresses anti-Trump views. He’ll either listen to them or he won’t.

No, no-one who’s not in the throes of abuse would “LOVE to sign up for” the “weird” things Kelly likes doing to women, like being confined to a room and starved. If accepting that kind of treatment is what “the kinky curve” is, “the kinky curve” is disgusting abuse.

Because of course everyone who’s aware of that distinction thinks that finding the figure of rape with an object and the injuries it causes to be funny and “enriching” is fine, so long as it holds of from directly advocating literal rape.

Ah, rape with an object and the injuries that causes. So hilarious! What an enrichment to our collective vocabulary.

If that’s true, there absolutely were things they could have done. If minors were being prostituted or having sexual contact with adults, that was a police matter. Your friend is either a liar or a horrible person.

You should talk to your therapist about your false perception that you’re being victimized by increased popular attention to groping and threatening behaviour against women by men. Being friends first and deciding if you’re compatible is only considered ‘manipulative’ if you expect that the non-sexual social time…