There is no actual evidence to support your anecdotes. And being female doesn't protect you from being sexist.

Yes, and it's not just strong perfume. It's anything with a chemical fragrance in it, like soap, shampoo, lotion, etc. And there's no escape on transit - the worst are the guys who drench themselves in Axe. Though it's also frustrating when close friends "forget" (after being asked like 5 minutes ago) to leave off…

Ooooh, I see now. That one time you got in a car with a woman driver is enough evidence to condemn women drivers everywhere. Right. Really great research methodology there.

You didn't listen to Pyrax, and you clearly didn't read the article. Insurance may be priced partially based on distance-based exposure rates, but this study looked at "fatality rates per distance driven", which controls for exposure rates. So your example of someone commuting 5 days per week, 20 miles each way (200…

Tell that to all the men I see simultaneously playing with their phones and watching cross traffic, trying to make a RTOR (despite the big NO RTOR sign at that intersection) while I'm desperately trying to get their attention so I can safely use the crosswalk that they're half-blocking. Not saying women don't do…

Mmmmm cupcakes. Maybe you have a point about the brackets, but we're going to have to agree to disagree on whether it's even possible for cupcakes to jump the shark. I need to go bake something.

Hilarious. Thanks for this picture. I'm so burnt out today and shouldn't have been reading the comments on this thread in the first place. Now, thanks to you, I can happily close my browser thinking "Every time you point I see a penis."

As one of those people who place my stuff on the seat next to me when the bus is empty-ish, yes. If we don't move our shit when the bus starts to get full, we deserve the same contempt. My rule of thumb is when there are no longer any completely empty rows between me and the front of the bus, I need to move my…

Other people have given you good advice on intervening, so I just want to add one thing.

Thank you for what you do. I went into one of those kinds of stores and was totally deer-in-the-headlights for like an hour and a half trying to choose my first "real" vibrator, and the people on the staff there were so friendly, natural, and the complete inverse of awkward. It really makes a difference to shop in a…

I used to think that way, until I realized exactly how much I was spending on AAA batteries at the gas station at 1am because my cheap-o vibrator ate them like candy at inopportune moments. Going rechargeable is quite a jump in price, but I think it's really worth it.

Can this turn into something like Fuck You March Madness? Except instead of voting whether I'd rather partake in hangnail fingerbanging or chocolate cream pie, we could vote on whether we hate unsolicited advice or transit harassers more to discover the all time worst thing in the world.

I don't do it in public spaces, but yeah... in pretty much any other space I'm familiar with, I'll consider eating something that I dropped. But FWIW, I usually* don't feed floor food to other people.

I would have no objection to a kegerator in the garage of a family that otherwise supported their children's learning through use of computers and education that enabled critical thinking, especially if the family enjoyed brewing their own beer and taught their youth to respect alcohol (e.g., not drinking in excess,…

My family did this too! One year someone (reindeer? grandma?) actually chewed carrots and spat them out outside to look like the reindeer were really messy. Another year my mom dipped a big boot in the fireplace ashes and stomped it around the living room (I was older; that was to keep fooling my sister). I think I…

Yeah, I think you're right about raglan. The angle is perfect for a raglan. It was the textured sleeves popping out from the reverse stockinette that made me wonder if it was possibly saddle sleeves, angle be damned.

I haven't read the article yet and don't particularly care about modesty, but... I really like the cable pattern on that woman's sweater - the way the cables start along a line that parallels the raglan (or saddle? can't tell) sleeves. Anyone else?

Right. Because preventing people from paying for insurance that covers legal procedures with money that they worked for is the very definition of individual responsibility. Go Republicans. *eyeroll*

Not crazy at all. It's natural to want to be with someone you find attractive and who finds you attractive.

I don't like everything Schwyzer writes, but I do appreciate that most of what he writes is about and/or targeted at men as they relate to feminism. And I think that's the perfect role for a male feminist and ally.