The problem is that feminists have argued that women are "individuals" so now crimes against us no longer constitute damage of (male owned) property. We didn't think that one through at all.

I hadn't heard of her before, but her work sounds fascinating. Excluded sounds like something I will like. I'll put her on my summer reading list. Thanks for the tip! :)

I just wrote a mini-paper about constructionism in which I argued that sex-traits are objective traits but the sex-dichotomy (male/female) is an oversimplified construct as attested by the existence of intersex individuals. I also argued that gender is a subjective and intrinsic fact (subjective because it happens in…

What? If I had a wedding scrap book that picture would be the cover!

Depressed people are shitty people, and I say that as a person who was a depressed and shitty person for eight years. It makes you boring, monotonous, spiteful, self-obsessed, irrational and hateful towards the world and yourself. I think it is really positive that you aren't accepting the shitty parts of you, but…

The tone in those videos along with the parent and therapist warning that he was a threat would of course not be enough to jail him, but a simple search would have given them a manifesto.

Rewatch them. The little gem about him being alone being "an injustice because I am magnificent" was a direct quote from one of his videos. If that isn't entitlement, I don't know what is. It is exactly the boasting that makes it entitlement.

You're right, I did misread your post. However, having re-read it a third time, I think you are creating a false equivalency between Rodger and a random lonely person. Rodger wasn't expressing loneliness but entitlement. It's not the loneliness that is a threat, because as you point out, there are millions of lonely…

I'm sorry, a "sweet and loving person"? This is a guy who thought we should be with him because he was "magnificent", drove "a nice car", and wore Armani sunglasses. This was a guy looking for "beautiful blond-haired girl" with a "pretty face". A guy who called it "an injustice because I am so magnificent" that he…

I actually think it makes a lot of sense. Unlike us plebes, Kim gets to wear amazing and expensive dresses fairly often. Whether it was my first wedding or my fifth wedding, I would want to feel "like a bride" which for most entails a special kind of dress, and for a person who wears gowns to work-events, it takes…

Also, it was an expression of English nationalism, advertising English-made material and especially English lace.

My guess (or hope) is that Beyonce has already responded to an official invitation and apologized for not being able to attend the wedding as well as wished the family all the best. The Instagram comment is probably meant to kill the theory that she didn't go to the wedding because she secretly hates Kim.

It has to do with property rights. When women are allowed multiple partners, it becomes impossible to determine the father of a child (before genetic testing). This creates great disruption with regards to inheritance of private property, and would create instability in any society with a system of male property…

How did she get away with copying a designer dress for a tv-show? That's not okay...

Peplums need to burn. Seriously. A peplum is not an okay thing to do to a dress (or jacket, skirt, or shirt).

Ah! The only thing I could come up with was "personal pronouns". Which I guess is something a person could be for or against if they really wanted to.... :P

It makes more sense if you think of the magazines as selling consumerism instead of sex. No one is allowed to accept women's bodies, because then where would the money come from?

I can pretty much assure you that we did, back when magazines were a "thing". I read them from age 14 or 15.

You are just the absolute best for writing that!

I actually ended up suggesting a sort of trigger warning this semester, much to my own surprise. The book was The Monk by Matthew Lewis, and it had been advertised as "salacious" and progressive for its time. As a lit student who has experienced rape, that book was basically a 350 page long trigger. It is one long…