If he had hit her first, then she hit him back, would the response have been the same?

Given ample precedent in the courts, if she shot him in response or stabbed him to death, she might have walked away scot-free.

Sexist, lookist comments from m*n are not to be tolerated.

"I want to see a man beaten to a bloody pulp with a high-heel shoved in his mouth, like an apple in the mouth of a pig."

- Andrea Dworkin

Right on Sister!

Kill the pigm*n and you kill the Oppressor, the Patriarchal slave-system which oppresses and enslaves wimmin the world over.

These rapists should be hauled in front of a university tribunal and disciplined for their sexist, lookist, weightist comments.

You're right. This is all about male privilege, and the power differential it creates between men and women in our society today.

The men with their compliments are flaunting their (probably white) male privilege in an offensive, uncomfortable way.

The Phallocracy

Oppresses through

Words, deeds and stares,

and "compliments".

Victimized, white, college-educated

women, working in offices

are victimized like

the black, impoverished sisters of

Darfur

I assume they are adults, with free will.

From this article, you'd never guess.

Girls "see themselves as sharing equal responsibility with boys." ???!!!

How anti-feminist of them!!!

'Kenley Collins, the catty, batty finalist on "Project Runway," really let the fur fly when she assaulted her now ex-fiancé with their pet feline in their Williamsburg apartment, authorities said yesterday.

The fashion designer, 26, was charged with assault and criminal possession of a weapon the weapon being the cat itself for her crazed attack on Zak Penley, 28, prosecutors said.

"It was a miscommunication," Kenley told The Post after getting released without bail from Brooklyn Supreme Court yesterday morning. "Fights happen, and that's that.

According to sources, the fur began to fly at 7 a.m. when Collins cocked her arm and threw one of the couple's two cats Arlo or Sandra at Penley, who was sleeping at the time.

She then threw her laptop as he fell and crawled on the floor, cops said. She also allegedly slammed a door on his head.

As Penley dialed 911, Collins threw three apples at him and doused him with water, cops said.

"You're lucky, it could have been worse," Collins told Penley after the blow, according to sources.'

Haven't you been reading the papers for the past five years?

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