Because I don’t think dehumanizing people, even this guy, is the way to solve problems.

Exactly. I’m not on team Bezos anywhere ever basically, except his right to be in love and express it however he wants.

Tell that to the guys who text me “wanna fuck?” Even if his intention is just to get laid, I’ll take this over that any day.

Chris Messina, but yes. 

I’m with Bezos on this one. I think it’s sweet, it expresses deep passion and emotion and isn’t really about sex, it is about love. He’s offering to caress her and stare deeply into her eyes. I mean, he is married so that part is gross, but you’re not criticizing that. You are conflating romantic texts with sexts an…

haha yes. Me too. Oh you don’t notice me and I can therefore walk through the world without being constantly on the defensive? Gotcha. Thanks.

Shoot, I was hoping men would stop trying to impregnate me when I turned 37. :-/

Yeah, I don’t feel old at all. But by this jerk’s standards I’m getting older because he only dates women barely out of girlhood. I just think men like him are such losers and we shouldn’t buy into their idiocy.

I have not but that’s how I feel about older men who date 20 something women now. What. A. Loser.

If attention from men has an expiration date then it’s not attention I want. But I also dated a man in his 50s when I was in my 20s and he was a total emotional cripple. It was toxic and abusive. So I contributed to this problem and was harmed by it enough to see that younger women ARE NOT benefiting from this…

Yes. One of the most liberating things about getting older (I am 37) is that I’m not constantly being harassed by creeps who think my looks make me an object for their use and my youth makes me an easy target. Not only are men like him ageist but they are also scared little punks because they are afraid of women their…

Yes. Stone cold fox. Have loved him since Six Feet Under.

Just got back from the holidays, but since we were *gasp* actually being cordial and having a good back and forth I wanted to say I agree, it is challenging to get anyone to be able to hold “both/and” and not always revert to “either/or” and when I am pushing on people who are one-sided my own arguments tend to veer…

You say nothing real here. I find that interesting, when a person will take the time to say or write something but actually says or writes nothing. you don’t even know you’re doing it. It’s fascinating.

Fair enough. I hear you. I didn’t mean to oversimplify. It’s challenging articulating my points concisely in comments while I’m at work when everyone is attacking me. You are right, it is more nuanced than that. I don’t think the race of the Palestinians helps their cause on the world stage, especially with American…

It’s not either or, it’s both and. Palestinians are oppressed because they are not Jews, yes, but Israel also has a strong racial bias that doubly harms them. Racism is alive and well in Israel, no matter how many Sephardim there are. Israel is racist against Arabs and Islamophobic. I can find more articles for you,…

I know nothing about some of those countries but I don’t agree that Israeli human rights violations are overrated and i don’t know of apartheid type laws in Germany and Ireland right now or in the past that weren’t highly condemned. 

You didn’t answer my question.

I need examples of where you are referring to, I can’t compare what’s happening in Israel with unspecified European countries. I don’t know of any European countries who are violating citizens’ human rights the way Israel is violating Palestinian human rights and no one is taking issue with it. 

Don’t understand what you’re saying here. But I’m not a big fan of the logic “everybody’s doing it.”