I'm a fucking sociologist, numb nuts. Have you never heard of a black studies scholar? A Foucault scholar? An ethnomusicology scholar? How about indigenous studies? Or women's studies? These are labels used to denote people's specialties, particular when those specialties are comprised of people from all different…

Yes, the majority of fat people are constantly shamed by the wider culture, in addition to people who are supposed to love them. This is an incredibly common experience, one that you would like to dismiss as "internet commentary" because that makes your word feel more orderly. It also makes you feel superior, even…

Also my upbringing as a fat girl was anything but, "Shrug it off." My mother's response to boys making rape jokes and fat jokes about me from 6th-10th grade was to enroll me in Weight Watchers, feed me Slim Fast, force me into fat camp, and blame me when the teasing spilled onto my popular brother. I became…

"I think people are becoming incredibly sensitive to things we were once always told to brush off and pay no attention to."

I'd point out that there's an entire movement going on, in academia, nutrition, and social media, around fat acceptance and encouraging people to pursue holistically healthy lifestyles that aren't focused on getting thin, something which has been clinically shown to be impossible for most obese people and therefore a…

Shut the fuck up.

Let me know when you've started up the crowdfunding campaign. I'll be happy to donate.

Thanks for understanding, and no I don't think anyone commenting to you in good faith thought you were being a jerk. When you're fat your body feels like it's public property, open for comment from everyone. It's amazing what strangers think they have a right to say to fat people. As a result what's meant as…

It's not ridiculous. While obviously not a universal sentiment, plenty of us don't want to be acknowledged while exercising in public. There are plenty of commenters here reporting that being acknowledged is uncomfortable, and there are multiple links on this thread about this issue. It's a common enough thing that it…

Know how I know you don't have a complex chronic illness?

You're the angry type of person that even pro-pitbull people wouldn't want owning a pitbull. Christ.

Whenever I get tired of the shit weather and the near total absence of edible Mexican food, the Scots manage to make me love Edinburgh again. Usually involves a pickaxe so I'm hardly surprised.

If you had a historically accurate understanding of the waves of antisemitism that preceded WWI by centuries all over Europe but especially in Germany, you'd really want to find a different example, as the Holocaust is a perfect, if much larger scale, example of how widespread social attitudes contribute to mass…

It's all part of a spectrum of misogyny. This is what women are trying to tell men like you. Your idiot friends telling sexist jokes are on the same spectrum as men who creep on women, men who join these communities, and men who ultimately choose to act on their violent misogyny. I know you'd sleep better believing…

Yeah you're right. I should have smiled and thanked that group of senior boys who made rape jokes and threats every time I had to walk past them on my way to class, five days a week. I'm sure that built character and had nothing whatsoever to do with a fourteen year old child developing crippling depression.

It's not extreme. Columbine was in large part a response to unmitigated, relentless bullying. I'm sorry that doesn't fit your bootstraps fantasy.

Can I hire you to perform this crucial service in real life, STFU Man?

I'm glad we can at least agree that you are a piece of shit.

Oh you're just a piece of shit. Well that explains it.

LOL yes tell us more about your oppression at the hands of lesbian feminists who have absolutely no power whatsoever except to keep you out of a music festival you have no interest in attending. God life must be rough being a man.