YES!

'or that one gender deserves special treatment over another. '

'Giving in to whims and urges are easy, the hard part is learning to do without and still fitting in a world of sorts in the presence of abundance. '

Seriously - as long as everyone's honest, safe, and consenting, I don't care what the fuck you do sexually, and I'd like (but don't expect, sadly) the same courtesy from everyone else. I think the fact that she's framing self-esteem as something to be siphoned from men as problematic, too, but that's another thing.

Yeah, exactly.

Eh, I guess. The fact that it's not just one person putting out articles makes me a little more forgiving toward the occasional fuck-up - after all, we don't blame every individual writer for some of the more side-eye-worthy articles Schwyzer puts out, do we? Or do we.

It's problematic to suggest that women should look for self-esteem though male acceptance in any form, be it sex or anything else. Women should be taught to find pride in their own talents and accomplishments, and not depend on the approval of men (or anyone else!) to feel worthy.

No, they don't, which is why it disappoints me to see you (and everyone else who is, really) perpetuating them.

Yeah, sounds like we need a new title!

USA, and reality.

Jesus, you're not only an asshole, you're an uninformed asshole. You keep repeating 'the world sucks' over and over again like it's supposed to convince me of something. If you're not even going to entertain the idea that women are systemically oppressed, and both at a much higher rate and in more varied ways than…

If you're not claiming that I said it, then why mention it at all? There's no need to refute something I never said.

Have you honestly never heard the term 'equal pay for equal work' before? It's kind of the mantra of the equal pay movement. No one's asking for the McDonald's/nurse situation you proposed — you're misusing the term.

I don't think that this particular article is a legitimate criticism, and if that was unclear in my original response (it probably was), I apologize.

It is not beside the point - you act as if hitting others is unavoidable. It's not. And if you think it is, I'm glad I don't know you.

'I'm not saying how women are treated is fair'

The world sucking and being sexist aren't mutually exclusive, and they're both when you're a woman. I can't believe you're actually trying to argue - against all documented evidence and statistics - that the world is equally awful for both men and women.

And ha, you act as if domestic abuse is taken anywhere nearly as seriously as it needs to be. You joker.

You shouldn't be hitting anyone, and both men and women should get parental leave. Next question?

Yeah ... nothing you just said justifies your original comment. When we say we want to be treated equally, we mean it. Of course there are going to be a few (rare) exceptions, but then again, there always are. To tell us that 'we don't want to be treated equal[ly]' is to tell us both that we don't know what we want …