These women aren’t stupid; they’re not going to enter into a prenuptial agreement that doesn’t take care of them should they get ditched.

That’s what alimony is for.

This piece bugged me. For one thing, when all you have is an anthropological framework of the non-autonomous oppressed woman, every problem looks like a non-autonomous oppressed woman. One important thing anthropologists often look for when examining family relationships is the remedy different actors have, and it…

But look at this way; I’m sure most of these guys work like crazy, are rarely home, and don’t go on shopping sprees much themselves. That “bonus” is in addition to the housing, the food, the cars, etc. etc., that the wives also enjoy, and I’m guessing that at the end of the day they get more use out of the money than…

How many of those things have gotten WORSE? THAT’S your argument. That women are worse off now than they were 5 or 10 or 20 years ago. That’s what eroding means. You can be angry about what is still yet to be done, that’s perfectly valid. But not pretending that women used to have it better and we’re on a downward…

That may be true, but I don’t know if they’ve slipped enough to counteract every other positive trends.

Nope, my question is about your lack of detail and misunderstanding of broader societal trends. I’m not asking you to teach me about anything, I’m suggesting you’re wrong.

You have to look beyond the hyperbole of the blogosphere; when you look at actual statistical trends, and the lived experience of the majority of women in this country, it has continously improved over the past several decades. And what legal rights do you think you are losing? Is that just a code word for abortion…

“and since women are currently losing ground and gains are being unmade”

They are created through genetic material of both parents and stored outside either’s body; why would they be considered the”woman’s embryos” rather than both the man and the woman’s?

No prob and good luck!

“In my opinion movies in general have been dumbed down to appeal to an audience of 12 year old boys bred on comic books and video games (and their adult parallels who have never grown up).”

I think that’s an important point, and honestly this sort of story promotes an image of Hollywood as a monolithic all-male boardroom of cigar-chomping misogynists seems to portray women as completely passive victims who can only call for help rather than take action themselves. There are plenty of women in Hollywood…

I will say that moving from NYC to South Florida did wonders for my seasonal affective disorder.

“Well, I don’t want it to be awkward if I flat out tell him that I like him and he doesn’t feel the same”

Maybe he’s misreading you; I know as a guy I am terrible at reading genuine interest. Or maybe he’s worried about a sexual harassment lawsuit. Or maybe he likes you and he’s nervous.

If you are not a man, how do you how we think? And do you really think predatory guys at the club are representative samples of all men?

“Deep down I think it’s because men are willing to give up status on education and background if they think the woman is good looking enough”

How do you know he’s not into you?

I would suspect that there are many people in your law school who do not have a job lined up either, they’re just quiet about it. The fact that you are debt-free puts you ahead of a lot of people, including people who do have jobs lined up; right now I would focus on the bar, keep applying to jobs (a lot of small- to…