Experiencing misogyny is worse than being mistaken for a misogynist. It isn't that difficult to understand. As a white person I feel a little sad when a POC says they have trouble trusting white people to not be racist. But guess what? My hurt fee-fees at being mistaken as a potential racist pale in comparison to…

Surveying women about our experiences is pretty much all we have. You can't study harassment experimentally because people will adjust their behavior in the absence of experimenters. When many, many thousands of women all have very similar stories you should consider the sample size large enough to be believable.

I don't think dressing scantily is kowtowing to the patriarchy in and of itself. I've certainly done it, although not to that extent. But it also feels a bit off to me when people praise women as empowered for it. It still feels wrong to me to look at sexuality or feeling comfortable with your body equated with…

Mine are evil!

She doesn't become an object simply by being scantily clad. A human is a human whether she is naked or in a biohazard suit. Objectification is something one imposes on another.

Agreed. I'm no pearl clutcher and if Rhianna wants to show her nipples on the red carpet, she is free to do so. It isn't going to get teen girls spontaneously pregnant. But I don't know if I would necessarily praise it as empowered. Last I checked, women being scantily clad while men are fully clothed is a pretty…

Stupid kinja isn't let the images through. It's Remember Me by Christopher Pike and Betsy, Tacy, and Tib by Maud Hart-Lovelace

I'm not sure. It wouldn't be a surprise. I just know that lists of must read classics always seem to be comprised of things written by white men. I know men are more likely to be reviewed in literary journals than women, but I don't know if anyone has checked for racial bias.

I haven't those since I was a teenager, but I loved them! Is that bad?

Agreed. I like what's considered high end and low end and everything in between.

Are you seriously trying to explain to me how clothes work on my own body? Layering has fuck all to do with it. Big breasts stretch the fabric and pull it down. Unless it is a turtleneck, there will be cleavage. And turtlenecks tend to mold themselves to the body more than other kind of shirts so my breasts are…

And I'm having a hard time continuing to scroll down because I'm enjoying this picture too much to tear my eyes away.

Cause only gay men watch True Blood *eyeroll*

I remember reading a study once that showed women check out men as much as men check out women* it's just that women are better at doing it without being too obvious and creepy. The notion that women (the ones who are attracted to men) don't like looking at attractive men is ridiculous.

I have 34G breasts and show some cleavage in everything but turtlenecks. I'm sick of being expected to apologize for the way my body is to judgmental assholes like you. I'm not going to wear a giant mu-mu everyday to hide the fact that I have big breast because there is nothing wrong or unprofessional or show-offy…

I'm sure you don't mean any harm, but in a discussion about sexism it's poor form for a man to take devil's advocate positions. This piece describes why better than I could http://www.shakesville.com/2014/05/the-te…The relevant passage:

I agree that the sept scene was awful and poorly done and that sometimes they handle violence against women clumsily. Still, GoT arguably has the highest number of interesting and well developed female characters on TV. Choosing to focus only on what they get wrong feels off to me. It's throwing out the baby with…

It's too bad. I was looking forward to the scene because it was such a great WTF? moment in the books. I don't know if it was bad editing, bad directing or what but it's a shame the conservation was about rape and not hilarious but disturbing period sex in a mausoleum type environment.