I mean, I’m not feeling a ton of sympathy for the guy, but I also don’t know that my point doesn’t stand with regard to men being awkward and immature. Those are learned qualities and adults need to unlearn them or own them and make up for them. I have a dear (male) friend who has ASD and genuinely does struggle to…

No. This is a dangerous statement.

South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commissions were a great example. But I think there were a few key points which are often missed. They were focused on the victims, and proceedings went at the pace the victims could cope with. Those perpetrators who confessed and were considered genuinely repentant were given…

That laziness is insidious and strategic - men are always suddenly bumbling when they want to retain a certain amount of power. “Oh, I didn’t know [groping her wasn’t cool]/[how to load the dishes right]”

I think the celebrities don’t pull in experts because a lot of them (not all—Emma Watson, Natalie Portman, Rashida Jones, and others did take time off from Hollywood and go to Ivies/college in general) just aren’t educated and don’t realize that’s what they should be doing.

Hear hear. I don’t believe that there can’t shouldn’t be rehabilitation for these men, but it seems strange to me that we started talking about finding ways to let them back in 5 seconds after they’ve been tossed out. Sexual harassment can impact victims’ lives and careers for years, decades even. There seems to…

I’ve been so frustrated with this movement for a little while now and it’s been hard to really formulate why. (No it’s not tears over people having to face some consequences for bad behavior.)

“The sticking point is of course that in cases of rape and sexual assault, it is traumatizing for the survivor to have any form of communication with the offender.”

THIS! Just gonna put Eve Ensler in here to support.

Yep. We make it clear that men can’t hit one another, and everyone seems to accept that’s sensible and appropriate - for example, in Victoria (Australia), there’s a law that says a single punch is prosecutionable as a serious crime, after a series of ‘king hit’ attacks sent young men to hospital and even killed them.…

Let me get this straight.

Um. Yeah.  We have to work at least twice as hard to get half as far (more so if we’re women of color). We have to “set the boundaries” at work or on a date. We have to be the ones to risk our jobs to report misconduct or harassment or failure to pay us equally — and sometimes we have to leave our jobs when the man…

EVERY INDUSTRY is full of power-tripping jerks. The Plausible Denialists want you to say “Oh, it’s just Hollywood, oh, it’s just academia, it’s just tech, it’s just the music business, it’s just journalism and media.” The whole point is that it’s not. It’s men in power harassing and oppressing women particularly in…

Really???

Also, if we let the media take on the “welfare reform” phrasing, we are SO FUCKED for FY19. Because the Rs (AND THE MEDIA) are even starting to use that wording (here, here, here for three different sources in the last few days alone), because using the “entitlement” phrasing is even starting to piss off the old…

To be fair, I don’t even know if my socks match right now.

And they say “Democrats have trouble with their messaging”. Hmph.

Suggestions to the Democratic Senators and Congress people who surf Kinja. Because there’s so many of you

When you campaign for the upcoming elections, stop calling them “entitlements” and instead call them “earned benefits”. “Entitlement” is a tainted word, Republicans say it with a sneer, when they say it they think…

What guys like the guy who told you we need to ignore guys like this fail to understand (possibly deliberately) is that not only does ignoring not work, but IRL women never know when attempts to dismiss and ignore will subsequently still get this kind of unhinged response AND bonus physical violence thrown in. We…