The obvious double standard here drives me crazy. I’m trying to imagine what the reaction would be if boys were told they can’t wear shorts or short sleeve shirts because it might be distracting to teachers, especially if the rationale were that it’s too distracting to gay male teachers...

A lot of men feel as if he never got a fair shake and has been unfairly penalized. Practically the moment he was able to return to music after the Rihanna affair, artists flocked to him.

The first element you have to prove to win a defamation case is that the statement was false. I’m pretty sure she just lost her own case with this.

That is petty and unprofessional.

That would have been pseudo cute if he wasn't the father of her son ...who is also called future. Grow up.

She comes off utterly unprofessional and not a little bit crazy doing this.

So you see no possible room for any other explanation? There is no good reason for rape. There is no acceptable reason. But there are others, and insisting otherwise is detrimental. The perpetrator of any crime is showing a form of contempt for their victim - but this does not mean the crime is motivated by a hatred…

So gay men who commit sexual assaults against other gay men are acting out of misogynistic impulses???

Catharine MacKinnon’s musings, while intriguing, don’t really match up all that well with the research on rapists. The research suggests that they rape women because they can get away with it, which is why they’re also raping family members, children, and subordinate males. It’s not about hating women, it’s about…

Only on this white feminist website would you get people advocating for colonialism instead of actually showing sympathy with the victims.

You’d think by now women on Jezebel would have figured out a way to sympathise with oppressed non-western women without wishing for their imperialist filled with western-ideals glory days back.

Okay, but which part of the western culture ideals can account for the 1 in five women who are raped and the 6% of rapist to ever actually serve time? Is rape culture part of the western cultural ideals you’re talking about too? Or are you talking about the actions of the aggressive soldiers because I have some…

Hmmm, Robb’s been dead for a couple of books, but he’s still a bigger character than Arya?. Tyrion’s a much bigger character than Arya, though Arya’s the only POV character who’s been in all five books?

“Before this group of men moved into town the German culture was sufficient to prevent this kind of offense from occurring to the majority of women.”

I don’t think anyone expects this type of behavior, but I think your vision of Germany is skewed. Women have been criticizing Germany’s handling of sexual assault for years. They only criminalized marital rape in 1997, after a nearly thirty-year battle. This article from two years ago is on the same subject: Source

You’re searching for hard and fast rules on this, when the reality is that there are none...as so many other commentators have pointed out: It’s up to each person with a mixed ancestry (regardless of temporal proximity - ie parents vs great-grandparents) to determine for themselves how they want to identify.

My husband is black. He also has light brown skin and blue eyes. His parents are black. His grandparents are black. His great grandparents are black and his great-grandparents are black (he can trace his lineage back pretty far on both sides, even beyond his great-grandparents). People will say, “what are you?” He’ll…

Just one? They have paid maternity leave for new mothers.

You literally said “countries that have few to no rights for women, and have been raised to view women as objects for their use and pleasure.” You then when on to acknowledge (as the article also points out) that many countries have exactly the same problem. If it’s a cultural issue, it’s one that is shared by all…

Isn’t that exactly the point? You said that these men come from countries where they were raised to see women as objects. That’s, as you just pointed out, everywhere in the world. Where they came from is not irrelevant, but it’d be silly to try to condemn these countries for not supporting women’s rights when, in a…