Genius.

I can’t believe how easy it is to make you guys admit you identify with the Nazis. But this is something to be proud about now, apparently. Well, enjoy your moment in the sun, I guess. History won’t be kind.

Dispiriting but unsurpising. Of course people who regularly confuse money for merit, cheating for cleverness, rudeness for honesty and a lack of impulse control for courage are going to confuse a lack of class for a lack of elitism.

Okay...

Keep talking. Keep listening. Try not to be dismissive out of the gate, when someone tells you something that doesn’t fit quit fit into your experience yet. People might tell you more then.

Well, you’re very lucky. I hope you can appreciate it. This is just not the experience of most of the women I know, some of which live in different places and have it way worse. In my experience, the women who don’t complain are those who are so numbed to it, they take it for granted. Of course, once or twice I’ve…

Yeah, my money is on “internalized abuse”. The husband seems very uncompromosing, only accepting love on his terms. (“I don’t do the things to make him feel loved although I do loving things”). Usually, people don’t want to make promises if they can already tell that they will have difficulties keeping them. If they…

Of course I’d expect spouses and children to get prioritized. I would also expect them to get prioritized over social/political engagement in clubs and societes and all sorts of hobbies, when the chips are down. Yet people - even married people with kids! - seem to find ways to show quite some dedication to these…

Honestly, the level of harrassment where I live is probably below average, judging from what other women tell me. It doesn’t have to happen every time you go somewhere to ruin the fun of it - just often enough for you to expect it. And you absolutely learn to expect it, unless you are rather lucky.

I still like to go…

Because unattactrive women aren’t harassed? What a pretty idea! Alas, you get more “farm animal noises” than “great tits”, whereas otherwise, you get the “great tits”, and then the “farm animal noises” once you say “No thanks”. I guess it’s more economical to skip the “great tits” step, but that doesn’t necessarily…

It’s certainly possible to have stimulating conversations with random strangers, but there’s something to be said for the sort of trust and loyality that needs to build over time.

I gave my reasoning in my first comment. I can see why it’s convenient for you to disregard it, but don’t pretend I didn’t give one.

There are, by the way, absolutely studies that show that a troubling number of percentage will admit to rape as long as you use a paraphrase in your question. Or studies that show that…

Well, you wouldn’t know it if you were, would you?

A well deserved victory! Steven’s handbag was also stunning, but I think he’ll win Starbaker often enough, and he did mess up the teacakes.

I absolutely agree that “well meaning heroes’ good intentions ultimately lead the realm to ruin” is one of the messages G.R.R.M wants to drive home with this, but I don’t see how that necessitates putting Jon on the throne in the end.

1) He’s already amply made that point, with Egg, with Rhaegar and with Ned, and with…

I also don’t remember any passage where it says that the Others built the Wall, or that the First Night ended through diplomacy. There was a pact, but it was between humans and Children of the Forest, whose initial conflict with each other triggered the creation of the Others in the first place. The White Walkers…

The Americans is one of my all-time favourite shows, but I haven’t gotten round to watching the last season yet, because I had a bit of a stressful time at work and just don’t have the mental bandwith right now. The Great British Bake Off is pretty much all my attention span will currently allow.

There are a number of…

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So let’s replace “80%” with “too many men” and the larger point still stands.

I can’t link to specific studies, but it sounds like a plausible estimate to me. The cultural messaging that a woman’s no is the starting rather than the endpoint of the negotiation is pervasive. And since women are statistically less likely to get violent if you pester them, there’s no cost to convenient misreadings…