I stopped reading this when you said that your favorite Hanson brother was Isaac. Isaac?! Are you fucking serious Mark?? Everyone knows the hotness order was Taylor, Zack, then Isaac. I feel like I don't even know you any more.

We're suffering from anthem creep. Why am I expected to rise and remove my cap for a song that isn't our national anthem? Because it's patriotic? How about "My Country 'Tis of Thee?" Ten years from now, we'll be standing for Lee Greenwood and Toby Keith. Fuck that.

I think the fact that they'd be asking advertisers to bankroll the potential sexual abuse of children pretty much puts that to bed. The network would be risking a hell of a lot of revenue, but even more than that, they'd be accused of profiting from child molestation. The legal implications of that are enormous. Not a…

A warm welcome to the random dudes who show up in these threads to ask why women find catcalling offensive and then ignore all the answers!

Oh boozie-hoo-hoo, the poow widdoo mens, having their dehumanizing and obnoxious behavior called out by the people it harms. Won't somebody please consider their FEELINGS? Take some of the charge out of this conversation? Which is to say, calm down, bitches!

I think a better parallel is panhandlers. I've seen so many comments about how this actress is rude or stuck up because she doesn't acknowledge these guys, but many people do exactly the same with street people. And it's exactly the same thinking: don't make eye contact, this one might be crazy, I'm running late etc.

[Helen] Lewis's Law: "the comments on any article about feminism justify feminism"

It's telling that people are attacking and threatening the actress, rather than the organization. It's easier for them to insult and threaten a woman than it is to try and comprehend what Hollaback is trying to get across. The actress' job was to just walk without engaging anyone. The idea that she wouldn't smile or…

I'm really sorry to hear that. As a dude it is difficult for me to see how someone could not understand this. You don't know these men who are throwing these catcalls at you; you don't know what kind of fucked up things they are capable of or what lines they may cross. Getting randomly verbally accosted by strangers…

But are those "hellos" really that harmless? I mean think about it. Some of those there were people around her, and these guys didn't greet anyone else, just her. She never made eye contact with any of these people, but they felt that it was okay to single her out and insert their words into her space.

I'm gonna guess…

I totally agree that some of them were meant as harmless, and that it is the other guys that ruin being able to be genuinely friendly on the street, but I do think it's important to keep in the video because to a woman, those innocent 'hellos' can be super scary. A guy says hello to me in the street, and I'm terrified…

I feel like I need to say something like this, because it's come up in comments several times- PEOPLE SAY HELLO IN CITIES TOO. Most of us know when it is creepy.

Hoda Kotb declared catcalling to be inoffensive and quite complimentary this morning, and Matt Fucking Lauer had to set her straight. Today meets the Twilight Zone.

The reaction to this video is as awful as the catcalling itself. I've seen countless face book arguments where men I've always found to be pleasant and respectful, that I would have never guessed are sexist, are saying she's overreacting, so women are having to tell them to put their sister/mother/wife/daughter in…

Men get very angry when you challenge their entitlement to do whatever the fuck they want.

I still sometimes get upset about Jessica Wakefield. They devoted an entire book to her mercilessly bullying Robin Wilson the Class Fatso, and Jessica's only comeuppance is that Robin ends up winning Homecoming queen (after going on an extreme diet and losing the weight OBVIOUSLY)?? She wasn't disciplined for hazing…

You can't legally consent to sex if you're incapacitated. You can be incapacitated for many reasons, including alcohol. Too drunk to consent to sex doesn't mean tipsy. It means flat-out, falling down, black-out drunk. Unable to talk without slurring and so on. If you've had sex with a girl after a night of…

thank you for saying this. a lot of ppl dont realize the inherent threat of being a young girl isolated and outnumbered by boys. physical violence isnt always necessary to scare a victim into complying.

The first rule of rape club is, you're a terrible fucking human being for being in rape club.

What in the fucking fuck is WRONG WITH YOUNG MEN and their friendly female enablers?! FUCK YOU. Christ, I could beat them with my fists until my hands fall off. What in the fuck! And cops can't do anything? Fuck them too.