It seems you're quite bigoted towards transpeople if you need to say you have a sexuality that "includes" them, as if other people do not.

You're quite sure that not one "oh" was an "I acknowledge that nothing I do or say will prevent this person from describing their idiosyncratic self-concept to me in exhaustive detail" kind of "oh"?

I feel like a joke about a fictional character being raped in order to very publicly blast a serial rapist who has used his power and connections to keep it quiet for 40 years is a pretty solid move. I also don't really think it was about Sleeping Beauty being raped at all. Like, yeah, it was the set-up, but the…

The joke was "In Into The Woods, Cinderella runs from her prince, Rapunzel gets throw from a tower for her prince, and Sleeping Beauty just thought she was getting coffee with Bill Cosby." It's a joke that calls out the shitty treatment of women in the play, and the shitty treatment of women by Bill Cosby. Bill…

No. It was a joke making fun of a rapist. We need lots, lots more jokes that publicly call out a rapist's behavior.

I know, right! The best part is that if he's read the comments he would have come across thread explaining EXACTLY why what he said is bullshit.

*eye roll* oh yes.. The Evo-psych defense.

I think Ross Douthat, of all people, actually had the best response to this:

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We don't need to teach men how to empathize. Men have empathy. They're socialized poorly, but they have empathy. We need to break down the barriers (ie, hegemonic masculinity) that prevent them from feeling comfortable expressing that empathy.

You cannot make the argument three months ago, as I'm pretty sure I recall Tracy herself or someone else at Jezebel doing, that NO MEANS NO and YES MEANS YES and YOU RESPECT ABSOLUTELY WHEN SOMEONE DOES OR DOESN'T WANT TO HAVE SEX WITH YOU while simultaneously making the argument that maybe possibly you should want it…

No. Just fucking NO.

The unbelievable levels bourgeois feminists stoop to in order to fit themselves around monogamy make me want to catch something on fire. IF I DON'T WANT IT, GO HAVE SEX WITH SOMEONE ELSE.

God, are you me? Except for the age (40), it's like you read my mind.

Eh, I dunno. This sort of MRA seems more like the sort who grew up feeling very entitled (and possibly more of an asshole than your average man), and now finds himself not only being denied the things he feels entitled to, but being accused of being a monster for wanting those things. It's not that he doesn't fit into…

i bet there is a review with this exact wording on an amazon page for one of elena ferrante's novels

Daryl Strawberry named his daughter Diamond. Her name is Diamond Strawberry.* I appreciate him and his wife's commitment to the cause.

Truly, if my last name was Solo and I had a daughter, I would not let that opportunity pass me by.