Seriously, this is so great. Personally, I have a pretty solid group of friends here but I love this idea. It’s what I’ve been waiting out of the online dating world for years, and it’s going to be great for some many people.

I would pay all the money for this. I’m in a new city, and while I have good friends in the area, they’re about an hour away. I moved from where I had LOTS of friends and support to basically none in a place where it’s customary for me to get weird looks when I say hello to strangers, even if they’re the parents of…

The word “gal” is one of those things that inexplicably makes my skin crawl. Maybe because it’s usually said by condescending chunk-nuggets like this guy.

I’m glad she called him on the sweetie thing, because there is nothing more condescending than that, and reading it made me so so so angry. In fact, I could never be in politics, because no way would my response to that bullshit have been as calm and measured as her response, even if I had advisors and such telling me…

Misplaced his words? Did he accidentally leave them in his other pants, or were they previously stored up his butt and he forgot that they usually only come out when he’s not in public?

I had to terminate a pregnancy due to life threatening problem. I had a molar pregnancy, a deformity caused by a problem during conception. In a molar pregnancy the sperm kicks out the egg/mother’s DNA and is essentially a clone of the father. As the mother’s body sees this as a foreign invader it reacts horribly. The…

I am really afraid for the state of abortion rights in this country. I’m a woman of reproductive age who has no desire to reproduce and it’s so scary to know there are so many in power who would gleefully force me and and so many other women to carry to term unwanted, or unviable pregnancies. We cannot. CANNOT. Afford…

Not sure what you point is.

Not to mention that if women aren’t willing to have sex with you it’s because you aren’t attractive to the women you approach. The dudes who are furious that women aren’t fucking them are the same dudes who will shamelessly slap a ‘NO FAT CHICKS’ sticker on their car. Bro, you aren’t obligated to have sex with women…

I’m an Anglo-Saxonist (and actually used to be active on Jezebel a few years ago, hi to those of you who are still here), and obviously have been following this since Frantzen’s blog post first came to light. Also obviously I have Feelings and Thoughts about Frantzen, mostly involving him walking around with a…

Yes. For me “interested in evolutionary psychology” is a dogwhistle for MRA. A few years ago I tried reading some evo-psych stuff because I was curious about the development of PMS and menopause, but quickly I realized those people only seem to write about men’s “hardwired” sexual urges.

The PUA/MRA view of women’s sexuality is just the mainstream view turned up to eleven. In short, women have sex for every reason other than actual carnal desire and that it’s something men get from women as opposed to something we do with women.

OF COURSE privilege does not negate the humanity of white, cis men. NO ONE is saying it does. I’m married to one for fucks sake (just like many of the feminists in these parts). What are you even on about? Modern feminism already acknowledges that the patriarchy negatively affects men too, you’re conjuring a straw man…

Right?? I’m not withholding sex from you in the hopes you will come around to my way of thinking. I just don’t want to have sex with jerks.

What baffles me is why a gay man is telling straight men that not being nice to women is a good way to have sex with them. How would he know?

That passage is one of those things that says far more about the author than about his purported subject. You just know his relationships with women throughout his life had to be seriously dysfunctional, most likely because he’s just a self-obsessed jerk.

I’m always baffled how MRAs view sex as something women control for nefarious purposes, like it’s a physical shiny toy we’re holding just out of their reach. We aren’t hiding something that rightfully belongs to humanity in general; we simply want to control our own bodies.

I love it when people act like treating each other like human beings is some huge inconvenience that requires a ton of their effort to comply to. Certainly there are issues that require a little knowledge and nuance, but 99% is just "treat other people as human beings." I think it says a lot about these people that…

I always put it this way.

1/2 bathroom visits, a dude needs the seat down.
2/2 bathroom visits, a chick needs the seat down.
Thefore, 3/4 times that bathroom is used, the seat needs to be down.

Put the fucking seat down.

You know, I have been in gender neutral bathrooms and never had a problem with grown men, but I have been in women's only bathrooms and have had problems when some mom insists on bringing her 12 year old son in there and he peeps through the cracks at the edge of the door or even under the doors.