I agree with Maya. And really, apologizing for derailing doesn’t make it okay. Its just another way of intruding and bringing in watabouttehmenz into a dialogue about women’s experiences.

Wow. I remember reading her work “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence” just last semester. R.I.P. Adrienne Rich.

Unlike Steve Jobs, this is a true loss for the world.

That doesn’t make any sense. If they meant that vodka goes down the throat in a way that other liquids don’t, it wouldn’t say “unlike some PEOPLE”. they are referring to a PERSON being hard to bring down (physically).

WOW…. are you freakin’ kidding me?!

I am NEVER buying Belvedere.

Monkeys would probably like banana cream pie–its food, and even though the pie itself is a human construct, food is something that monkeys need and want. The point is, if I didn’t express myself clearly before, is that everything that these objects (cars and dolls) represent are human constructions. The meaning attached to cars and [...]

It absolutely holds; you just misunderstood. Cars and dolls are human constructs, and that means they are also specifically human gendered constructs. There is absolutely no way for an ape, which is outside of the human species, to have a legitimately gendered preference for something that is specifically human. That study was found to be flawed. [...]

Nobody here is objectifying Ryan Gosling. That’s the difference.

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with cautioning women about the risks of getting drunk. At the same time, what’s wrong with our culture is that no responsibility that is being placed on men not to rape. There are no ad campaigns that target men and tell them “Don’t drink, because you might rape someone.” [...]

If they really wanted to stop rape, and stop victim-blaming, then a more appropriate ad would be a picture of a guy forcing himself onto a woman, with the caption: “He probably wouldn’t have raped when he was sober, but he did when he was drunk.”