I can vouch for at least a handful of mutually agreed upon divorces.

Good point. I never considered that! Having had power steering go out, it's surprisingly tough to wrestle that wheel.

I 100% agree that engaging in violent fantasy does not cause violence, full stop.

I don't disagree that men are the higher percentage of aggressive drivers. If there was a way to adequately address aggressive driving, then I think that should absolutely be a category for higher rates— the way smoking is for health insurance rates. However, aggressive driving is self-selected where masculinity is…

With the caveat that this is just one study, I'm going to drop this here:

My point is that women are not worse drivers than men. Perhaps we agree?

Haha, yeah. Ignore all the statistics that say that men are 77% more likely to die in an auto accident than women, or that insurance companies charge (especially young) men more in premiums because the statistics bear out that they're more insurance prone. One time I saw a lady do something dangerous behind the…

"One of these samples came from a man who self-reported that he had not bathed or showered for several years."

It blows my mind every time I remember my grandmother was 55 when she finally learned how to drive. FIFTY-FIVE. Suburbification finally stole her bus line and she had no choice. But I just cannot even conceive of a time when it was "not ladylike" to drive.

Yeah totally, and you've hit on the part that's REALLY scary about this. Anti-choice forces are playing 5 steps ahead of the game. They are already pushing to whittle reproductive rights down to "only in cases of rape / incest / danger to mother," and at the same time they're laying the "intellectual" groundwork for…

Oh my god. Did this actually happen? I ask as someone who doesn't want "dolphin rape cave" in their Google history at work.

That was my reaction also. Is Focus on the Family or some other religious group disseminating some anti-science regarding rape? It's like these guys subscribe to the same mailing list.

I wonder if men's friendships tend to be longer-lived because men are socialized to have "shallower" relationships with each other than women have with one another? My dad also has 50-year friendships like yours. But when I ask him about his friends as people, I feel like he only knows them on a relatively…

I don't aim to. I agree with the author's statement that the end goals of MRAs are not necessarily at odds with feminist goals. It jumps the rails when MRAs position feminism as being the enemy. This is a paste from another comment but it's valid here:

For the sake of argument, let's grant that family courts are biased against men. That is a bias that originates from a legal system that has been effectively all-male for the last few hundred years. This is not something that has been created or changed by feminism. Therefore, it's disconcerting when MRAs position…

Please let me know what absurd policies have been enacted because of the feminist movement over the past few decades. The lack of a specific example here is what I'm thinking of when I talk about "strawmanning feminism."

Yes, I agree that there are also MRAs who use "Men's Rights" as a cover to bemoan the erosion of male privilege. However, I think that the messaging that MRAs use relies upon skewed framing to position feminism as something that's not only injurious to men's privilege, but to equality itself. There is no shortage of…

"We would be the natural allies of MRAs, if MRAs were sincerely committed to the causes with which they claim to be chiefly concerned."

I think you're onto something— you could previously leave bullying at school and retreat to your own world when the school day ended. People who say that these kids shouldn't have been on ask.fm or Facebook or Twitter remind me SO MUCH of the parent who won't buy their kid whatever the trendy item of the day is and…

Can't recommend anything off the new EP as I haven't heard it but the best songs on Hadley Street Dreams are "T.O.N.Y.," Dancing in the Dark," "I Decided," and "Would've Been the One."