Jezebel has gotten mean and petty lately, and so have a lot of Jezebel commenters who fancy themselves above the the fray. The thread on how much better some commenters' writing is than the writer's of Jez, was just so...misguided and petty.

And how does a person respond to something like this? How does a woman who started reading this website as a teenager, who used to seek refuge here when her ideas about gender and equality were shot down by her friends, peers, and sometimes even family, who for some reason imagined this place as being a center for…

So.....you violated someone's space, he muttered something sotto voce, then you went and wrote an angry screed about it?

Just stating the facts.

Thank you. If you read the full (200-page) report, you'd see that she told multiple versions of events (drunk, drugged, hit on the head...) and yet even her friend, not just the other two eyewitnesses, said she saw the girl get in the cab with them fully aware of the situation. The girl even asked the friend if she…

Since this is jezebel, the idea that maybe she actually was lying is just totally out of the question.

I've known some gay men who seemed to have very little patience for women. I can't say any of them were MRAs.

I'm guessing if this was a story about a 12 year old boy throwing a book at the eye of an adult woman, the comments here would be a lot more about how tragic it is that people don't realize how children can abuse adults.

Let's get a few things straight about activism groups.

Then why is Misogyny not just "The Patriarchy." It's like you're saying that Misogyny is mistreatment of Women when they don't measure up to societal expectations, but when Men don't measure up to societal expectations and are mistreated - it's still because of mistreatment against Women.