Age Ain’t Nothin But a Number came out in 1994. You had 23 years to realize that kind of person R Kelly was not to mention that tape being released. And he had that pro-rape song with Gaga that got so much flack they didn’t release the video (THANK GOD). The way that society continuously forgives sexual assault, rape…

Things that are a waste of money to you are not a waste to someone else and vice versa.

Or like.... Spend your money on what you want? I mean I’m not comfortable spending $1000 on a dress, but if I spent $1000 to stay in a hotel for 10 days and then it closed I’d still be out the money. There are always “better” things to spend money on.

I got married last year and I can’t imagine how much I would be losing my shit.

I didn’t get to have that party and you know what? I am really sorry we didn’t. I wish our families had come to wish us well and show their love for us. I wish I had professional pictures of us with our parents and grandparents, especially since our grandparents have since passed and my mom and his dad now have cancer…

Do you also judge everyone who eats in nice restaurants? You can only eat that meal once and afterwards you don’t even have an item you can turn into something else like a christening gown or a quilt.

Also a good point. Money is relative. A couple hundred may have taken a lot to save.

While I wouldn’t spend that kind of money on a dress, it’s really immaterial. A wedding is an experience just as many other things are experiences which you’d likely find valuable. Would you gasp that someone would spend hundreds or thousands on a hot air balloon ride AND pay for the overpriced champagne? What about…

This. If you paid for something, it should be given to you. The perceived value to an outside party doesn’t matter.

As someone who spent a relatively conservative amount on an upscale but reusable non-white-wedding dress and opted for a very small wedding so as to afford a honeymoon abroad: people are allowed to do what they want. We preferred to spend our money on seeing four thousand year old buildings, but other people would…

Even if it is just a big party, all the attention is on the bride, and the photos will be there forever. Not to mention women are conditioned and groomed from birth to want it.

I get that, but what you wrote in your second post was that your observances of women made you more skeptical of more parts of feminism. So instead of making you more skeptical and cautious of people in general, which is probably the case, you said it made you skeptical about more parts of feminism. So it does come…

Ugh there you go again. Someone who may have (??? You didn’t even specify) one time identified as a feminist (???) or perhaps just as a female was once mean to you. Someone who identified as a leftist was once mean to someone else. Therefore feminists and leftists are all suspect as a collective, forever.

OK, now go one step further: What do you hope to accomplish by the skepticism YOU preach, particularly by blaming it on one little girl?

I’ve followed your posts for a while and was actually quite shocked by the tone and content of the post frankly. I’m still confused about your skepticism of ‘parts of feminism’ because some girls were mean in school. All kids are shits at one point or another. I was beat up by both guys and girls for incredibly stupid…

A single reigning monarch countering literally every other face on currency, yup, sounds fair. I can see arguing that Austen isn’t the GOAT but um, really, no other woman is as deserving of such recognition except by being sired by the right dude? Ada Lovelace maybe? Nah madness, women only accomplish things when men…

Right? Middle schoolers are cruel, water is wet, the sky is blue. Next.

Thanks for clarifying. I can’t speak on the UK banknotes or prize money (not informed on that), but am relieved that you aren’t against equality because some girl was a super bitch to you. That was the vibe I was getting before.

No woman anywhere has been bullied by a woman. It’s totally a misandrist conspiracy and you’re the first one to crack the code, congrats!

“ after seeing first hand just how cruel and calculating women can be I’ve always been more cynical and dubious of people claiming to want to help others”