Ha! I wish she'd get over her crazy shit but I'm worrying she's piling on the crazy so high that there won't be room for anything of substance.

I guess I just have a thing for guys with great kitchens and nice furniture, too.

"Is probably"??? Way to go with the assumptions. I agree that her homophobia is shitty enough, but heaping assumptions about what else she might be strikes me as just as bad. Like, *some* people assume that black people are anti-semitic, which would make those that assume racist.

Sorry, I replied to the wrong post! :-/

I figured this meant in order to know whether a guy has good cookingware either you or he cooks often and well. I've never known 20-something men with comfortable homes and well-appointed kitchens (though I've known some single 20something women with that) but I've known some great guys over 30 who have that and I…

I identify with womanism and prefer it over feminism for a variety of reasons, one of them being that I absolutely felt that I was invisible to some groups I wanted to befriend when I was in my 20s (who identified themselves as feminist such and such, obviously) and also because of our terrible history regarding…

You bring up some good points about diversity, date rape and bullying (among many you mentioned) and the fact that there IS a wider awareness of those issues now. If anything, maybe those relatively new concepts and the fact they have support will offer equality issues like women's some support. (Also, OMG, panty-hose…

You're brilliant!

Yes, this and when she cut her hair?? Holy shit! The last time I knew of a man reacting to a woman having her cut was when Ford was president! It was stunning how they felt they owned her.

Yes, shockingly, it really does seem like this. I can't tell you how many guys I've met in a huge college city who get weird about womens rights and feminism.

I still don't see that trend but that's partly due to my age and level of expectation ;-) I'm happy we're not back in the late '90s-'00s which felt like the worst point of the backlash, just in my experience. My real concern is that we not become complacent and I do indeed see many young voices supporting that too.…

Oh, in my experience there is absolutely a stigma attached to the word among at least a particular group of college age women I've met. I certainly don't want to generalize, but I was amazed by the difference between what I encountered growing up in the '80s and '90s and how much more loaded the term seemed to be…

Let's all Google that NOW to get it prompting ASAP! :-)

If you believe in equality, you're a feminist ...

You put it perfectly, thank you!

Oops, I'd meant to include that he too was a Democrat. He's still got that seat and she still married him. While I really don't want to judge anyone for their personal likes and dislikes — as long as they don't affect other people's — I just didn't like how he treated her in general and that was well before the…

Oh, now I understand, yeah the idea of getting caught would be a turn on, that makes sense. Well, now you know about one state senator and his porn!

It could, nurturing and tending to the victim would help alleviate guilt and help with rationalization, definitely. Then there's Munchausen's-by-proxy which is supposed to be a caregiver (female or male) that makes a child or other vulnerable person in their care ill so that the caregiver gets attention, but I've…

Oh that 's right! And I don't know how I could've forgotten her! Indeed, the countess is, by far, the most prolific. Long live the countess!

It's more of that classic damned if you do or don't that women face: if you assert yourself then you're a "bitch", but your male co-worker is just doing his job; if you like sex and go after it you're a slut, but those frat boys are just horny boys being boys under the influence of hormones; and if a man kills in…