I don’t think .... you’re answering my post...because I never ever use the word empowerment, which comes from the objectivist sliver of 1980s Reaganomics and which now you know surprisingly hear falling from the lips of that great friend to women, Sheryl Sandberg.

LöL. I just returned from a research trip in NZ. I seriously doubt that you can have spent any time there at all without being driven insane by the Protestant, patriarchal, sour, selfish, conservative, monoculture here. Of course sex work is legal here...besides being a mom with five shoeless kids or a helpmate on a…

Yes, you are using the “slippery slope” argument, which as I have mentioned is not a valid form or rhetoric, particularly in this case, because we are not even discussing the same issue. You are saying that some people do not approve of consensual sex under certain circumstances such as promiscuity, exchange of goods,…

You must certainly realize that in a contemporary construal of marriage, even in arranged marriages, the relationship is designated to be of a continual nature, and what you are characterising as an exchange of goods, in terms of use value, goes both toward and away from both parties. Again, just as you have changed…

There is certainly an argument from old-schoolers like Dworking et. al. that patriarchal hegemony is so pervasive that in fact women always in a subjectively disempowered status. But that is not what we’re talking about here. Nice try though. It’s interesting that you brought up the subject of marriage as a form of…

Yes, I am one of those – a woman who can’t easily be categorised or silenced by you. It’s too bad you’re not willing to have someone more intelligent direct you to the facts, because then you’d learn something. Not that it’d cause you to reevaluate your morality.

You’re putting words in my mouth with your little histrionics, and you’re not reading or responding to what other people are communicating to you either. I didn’t say sex for love or pleasure was wrong, and neither has anyone else who has responded to you.

Thankfully you arent in a position to make those choice for others.

Those are not scholarly sources, which are what I suggested you look at. The Huffington Post is hardly a credible source about anything when its proprietor is a famous plagiarist!

Prostitution isn’t sex. It’s paid rape.

No, this is an MRA myth, it is not supported by any data whatsoever. Look up some of the very respectable sociological / psychological / legal journals in which studies of the “Swedish Model,” etc. have appeared.

Yes. They are. Just because some are delusional doesn’t mean that the suspension of one’s sexual autonomy is ever, ever a good thing.

I see what you are saying. Strangely, out of the aforementioned “undesirable traits,” ‘not having a job’ is very very fluid, and ‘not having prospects for the future’ is pretty fluid – people change, inherit money, go back to school at increasingly advanced ages, and so on. Only the height thing is not malleable. I…

Someone should reject you because of your height if that person is not attracted to you, but no one needs to provide you with a 5000 word exegesis or any sort of reason for declining to date or otherwise be in contact with you. Why can men not understand this?

There are actually morals clauses in a lot of non-U.S. university contracts including for tenure track / tenured faculty, which at 29, this guy is not.

I’m with you right there. However although the woman refers to the guy as a “professor,” it sounds like she may not know what that means, particularly in countries that have a complicated habilitation Doc Phil system. If he’s only 29 it’s a lot more likely he’s still in grad school...if he didn’t make up the whole…

My opinion isn’t relevant because it isn’t an opinion. There are laws in the Schengen governing what is and is not a designated space for worship/burial/etc., and Auschwitz isn’t one of them, no matter how strongly you feel about it (and this is the parliamentary law set forth in Strasbourg and Brussels, so it’s not a…

Yeah, the same way the Gaza is the largest Muslim cemetery in the world I guess... Actually the Auschwitz site is not a Beit Kevarot or Beit Almin. It is not a sacred space, it has not been consecrated – the Poles would never go for it, and since not only Jews died (and have their remains) there, this could not happen…

“That German person” on a technicality: none of the examples in the introduction are technically “sacred spaces.” If there were misting showers at the Wailing Wall, a Jamba Juice at the Dome of the Rock, or a T-shirt stand at the Shrine to Our Lady of Guadalupe...those would be more valid illustrations.

Hey, hey fella...there’s this thing that’s been invented...it’s called a library? Since as you and the MRA terrorists pointed out there is also a stream of academic research called women’s studies – I know this is incredible – there are many books and scholarly journals that can educate you about the patriarchy,…