Very, very, very, very, very few rapes are perpetrated with a gone, never mind a "deranged" guy with a gun. The vast majority of rapists are very well in control of their mental faculties, know their victims, and use intimidation and threats as their main violence. Those who do resort to more physical means use their…

Nobody is saying they can't be done in conjunction - people are simply pointing out that they are not being done currently in conjunction. When the conversation is 90% telling women what they should be doing so they shouldn't be raped, and 10% talking about telling men not to rape, it's hardly wrong to point out that…

If we're going to go there with leaving kids in cars, then I think it is vastly more important to write a story about "don't do it, don't do it, don't do it" with even owning a gun if you are the parent of a child. An average of 37 children per year die left in cars. Over 3,000 children per year die because of a…

I don't know if you mean for it to come off this way, but it really sounds as if you're separating men into "guys who would never treat a woman poorly" and "assholes who think it's funny." A large part of why campaigns like this are so necessary is because of the large number of men (and women) who do not know what…

But we don't care whether you think the problem can't be solved. It's not about you. Really, it's not. You're allowed to be as defeatist as you like; it has no bearing on #YesAllWomen at all.

This mostly just boils down to "change is scary". If the majority of men as a group had to actually acknowledge that women face adversity because of their gender, that would mean that they would have to change their ways of thinking. They wouldn't be able to bond by sharing jokes about women drivers, or 'fake nerd…

UH, MODERATORS?

I'm like half vomiting and half falling asleep. Can you die that way?

Dozens of times over the last few years I've gotten what I simply dub "The Look".

I disagree. Martin believes in the world he created. Medieval, war driven and dark world where women are often victimized and men are brutally murdered. And I get it. It wouldn't make sense without all that violence. I never ONCE read a scene involving death or rape in his books that came off sexualized or…

Wolf Blitzer has really let himself go.....

That must be why I love it so much.

I strongly disagree that Rose is defined by her relationships with men. Her relationship with her mom is central to her character. There's that great scene in "Army of Ghosts" where Rose's mom talks to her about her fear that one day there'll be a woman in an alien marketplace on some other planet, and it won't be…

I think what a lot of people misunderstand about the Bechdel test is that it isn't a test of quality. A movie can be amazing but fail it. Lord of the Rings is by most accounts an excellent series, but it fails the Bechdel test.

Your point, if even true, might have some significance if we weren't living UNDER PATRIARCHY. (duh)

We know all men aren't degenerate scum. :) We've got dads and brothers and husbands and lovers, and most of them are great. Don't worry so much about apologizing for what you didn't do and put your efforts into being a force of resistance and counterexample of the Male Privilege society we're in.

It seems to me that the definition you have offered is a very, very recent development. For generations, a gentleman was a man who respected and appreciated women as beautiful trophies, excellent cooks, consummate housekeepers, fantastic lovers, uniquely superior bearers of offspring, and occasionally even people, but…

#notallmen