Exactly. This is what I tried to say. In my experience though, the fathers really do try. But what happens is that the couple (assuming both are working professionals) go into it sort of naïve. They say they are going to both share all roles, etc. But from the very beginning, the mom is recovering, then nursing, has…

Seriously, I think we should stop telling young people they CAN have it all. I know some people manage it- there are outliers for everything. But MOST people cannot have successful ambitious careers AND raise children in a happy family home unless one person in the couple decides he or she is going to focus mostly on…

Yikes! Sorry you went through that! Hope he gets help for all his issues.

Yup I agree. I don’t know if this is what she really thinks, or if it’s just how it comes across when she's talking in the context of television. But as a stand-alone statement, it's really dumb.

Yes this exactly. THIS is why you are having trouble with women. Seriously. Learn it, and actually consider that for half the population at least, they are not thinking of the world from a male's pov.

Look, the main source of all your problems here appears to be your inability to see things from other povs. Your whole story is “I’m a man- how can I get girls to like me”. You are just putting it in fancier words so that you appear to be thoughtful.

The more you talk, the more I see why you don’t get second dates. You are judging that gal for wanting to make out with a hot guy and asking her what she does with nice guys? Barf.

Anytime you are in a situation in which the stakes are really high for the women and really low for the men, you are going to find this scenario- the men become way more aggressive and the women become way more reserved. This is what it’s like living in a country where women have fewer rights. It’s also what it is…

Yeah I agree with this, actually. Women carry almost all the risks with sex on dates.

It feels really good to do stuff like that. I've done similar things myself- confronting street harassment, etc. But some men retaliate. There are some REALY fragile egos out there walking around with a deep sense of entitlement. It can get scary fast. Sometimes best just not to engage crazy.

She just replied to the wrong person. The first commenter is blaming victim, and I'm pretty sure that's who deerlady meant to reply to. If not, I agree with you!

I’m not defending her on this issue. But to provide context, I’d like to point out that often when people speak on television they don’t get the chance to fully explain nuanced ideas. She’s written in the past about how women have so frequently been allies to other civil rights groups only to be neglected themselves.…

Yes, but I understand how it started that way. Let’s pretend that I agreed with Ted Cruz on every single issue other than reproductive rights. So I want to eliminate all those departments of gov because waste, I like his tax plan, I want to build a wall, I’m a hawk on military issues, and I’m an NRA member. But I’m…

Thanks for linking to that, but it has a paywall. I googled but could find nothing else making that case. What are the main ideas behind the claim he wouldn’t fight as hard for women's issues?

It’s probably a hard thing to bring up. As a campaign tactic, if the Dems were to play this up, the response would be a small minority of “cool!” to a large majority of “non-issue” to a small loud minority of “Jewish takeover of the world!” I don’t think (in the US) that Jews are an oppressed minority to the point…

He was referring specifically to women’s issues. The idea is, if you are voting with your vagina, then you are voting on women’s issues, and in that case, the two candidates are the same. Yes there are wide differences on everything else. What I tend to find though is that if a politician is regressive on women’s…

Any woman who votes Republican is exercising self-loathing. She’s voting away her own rights to a bro’s club. But you are right here about the two Dem candidates. They agree on women’s issues. So, as a woman, I can start looking at other issues, and I agree with Bernie more on just about most other issues.

Not only that, but it’s a bully move on her part to repeatedly aggressively seek the nomination when so many people deeply hate her. She is not good for the party nor for the country because she is so polarizing and has such history. Twice now, she has sought the nomination and been overshadowed by a less mainstream,…

Disappointing. As if there aren’t dozens of important reasons to not want to vote her into office. Her explanation also makes no sense for some pretty obvious reasons: 1. Clinton is the more conservative candidate and Bernie is the more radical one. 2. Bernie is not at all charismatic or attractive.

Rohan is also a pretty common traditional Indian name for boys (has nothing to do with LOTR). So I bet her name choice has more to do with some Hinduism pretension rather than a LOTR reference. She seems way to self-unaware for scifi fantasy fandom