It’s like when Lindy West talked about rape jokes, essentially saying that as long as the joke is on rape culture and not the victims of rape they are fine. She got a lot of rape and death threats. Then Patton Oswalt said the same thing and people are like “So brave, let’s listen to him.”
Baberaham Lincoln
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Exactly. My husband and dad and other great men in my life are not saying things like: “well I’m just not going to talk to women anymore because it’s too dangerous” or bullshit like that. Because to them, women are people. Imagine.
Whenever a man brings that up, I always think that the man has no idea what is appropriate and what is inappropriate, has likely done something inappropriate because of how stupid he is, and is now scared of getting called out.
One thing I’m struggling to understand about that serum is that I use Latisse, and it’s $175 for a 3-month supply from the med spa that I go to. So it seems like this drug, that’s proven to work, is a comparable price to this thing from R + F that maybe works and/or apparently works great.
Not gonna work.
Catch-22? GTFOH. None of the behavior written about by Danielle is at all acceptable. It is sexual harassment, and assault (touching someone without their consent is assault). To conflate this shit to men asking women out in non-creepy ways? Unreal. There is no fucking gray area, and if you think so, you are a fucking…
Don’t tell us what kind of attention women like.
I want to be clear that the guys who did this stuff was wrong, but men are left in a Catch-22. I’m sure I will be eviscerated, but here goes the reasoning.
VERY. FEW. OF. US. LIKE. THAT. ATTENTION.
This is going to sound crazy, but it is possible to indicate interest in a woman without touching her or reducing her to her body parts. It’s called using your words to say things like “Hello” or “How are you”.
Nope. If these stories/examples seem like they’re “in a grey area” to you, you’re either a creep, or at best, just part of the problem.
A friend of mine made a FB post about MLM’s and the comments section was immediately clogged with paid posts by some shady internet reputation management firm, talking about how that particular company was WONDERFUL and enabled people to live their dreams, etc, etc, which was red meat to me. It went on for I forget…
OMG, I am having such a wave a nostalgia right now I’m nearly in tears. I discovered this book, along with a vibrator, in my mother’s private drawer (man, kids are snooping assholes!) and my life was never the same.
It makes me wonder how many men deny opportunities to young women or attractive women specifically because they are attracted to them.
This is great. I wish more people would start moving away from fast fashion.
I work in Cambodia where much of what you are wearing is made. The women make $120 per month and are taken to and from work in actual cattle cars. Every month there are news reports of mass faintings from poor ventilation or contaminated air. The authoritarian government controls most of the media here so you can be…
I’ve tried this off and on and it’s extremely depressing to realize that even $600 blouses at Nordstrom are made in China. They just have bigger profit margins. And while I’ve heard that there are factories in China (for example) that adhere to fair labor laws, I’m pretty fucking skeptical.
Maybe, but maybe not.