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• I agree that these studies are very upsetting. The other day I was watching the Discovery Channel that had a special on biological attraction. They took surveys of women on the streets and showed pictures of men, asking them to
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• Oops, I'm not quite done. God forbid they ask women to meet these men and take into account their actual personalities. Also, by the logic they just presented in this half-assed study, they could use battered women who stay with
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• I identify with Wonderwall. I only realized I am a feminist less than a year ago, and at first I was upset because I thought my boyfriend had sexist and misogynist tendencies. Don't get me wrong, he treats me as
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• To address your second point: I will not deny that the common sexual diction and phrasing of sexual acts absolutely has a sexist connection (men fuck women). However, I think it might also have arisen from the fact that women
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• Thank you both for your opinions, and I understand where you are both coming from. I did not mean to imply at all that women cannot fuck men, only that it is represented that way in our culture. I was
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• Wow yeah, I cant believe they got away with that one, the bare feet, the dirt and overgrown hair and cutesy accent. Gag. (posted to Sexist ad? Here's your statuette)
• I cannot imaagine how horrible it would be to be a victim of rape. But to have others suggest that the victim is to blame blows my mind. I didn't realize there are men's groups out there who are pushing (posted to How do you cope with your lack of privilege?)
• Some of these comments are making me sad. How do you have boyfriends that you don't discuss feminism with? How can you date someone who seriously believes in victim-blaming? Is this for real? However, people DO change. Usually it's of (posted to How do you cope with your lack of privilege?)
• I agree with changing the people you hang out with. I have had to cut people out of my life that I disagreed with on my most crucial ethical topics. Some people tried to tell me to "just get over (posted to How do you cope with your lack of privilege?)
• Thank you for doing a good deed! That was brave of you to help. I agree that it's so frustrating. I wish there was some type of a long-term counseling available to women when the police are called with a (posted to Next steps for witnessess of violence?)

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