Imagine having to pay to divorce your abuser. One woman's 15-year battle means Ugandan women now won't have to.

I'm sorry but I don't respond to you. You do not have authority over me and it's really starting to piss me off that you're pretending you do. It's fucking arrogant. If it's your opinion that I "derailed" your conversation fine, but you're not the final arbiter and I hardly think I turned the conversation primarily or even significantly into one about men's issues regardless. Quit showing me the rules and telling me to "not do it again" as if it's completely obvious what I've done and how sinful it was. It's not. Your dogmatic notion that no mens issues come up in conversations here is bullshit and I highly doubt that's what this rule about "derailment" was intended to promote.

As for your blog, if you don't want to talk about anything men also suffer in addition to women, because I brought up nothing that happens exclusively to men anywhere in this conversation, then I have no fucking interest in helping you accomplish anything or listening to you bitch about women's issues.

Saying that anything but exclusively discussing women's issues is "derailment" and some formal offense against any productive discussion in the form of a "Patriarchy Hurts Men Too" argument is fucking bullshit. Get someone to fucking ban me from here if you want me to stop discussing anything that also hurts men in any way in addition to things that hurt only women. Your notion of what constitutes "women's issues" is completely divisive, selfish, and arrogant. What the fuck do you have to argue against patriarchy if you're so willing to do the same fucking thing as any arrogant, misogynistic good old boy and totally shut down any discussion, even accidentally introduced as mine was (because I certainly didn't say a god damn word about men before people started complaining that my examples were things that mostly hurt men; I didn't consider those examples a gendered thing myself) of things that hurt men. I'm not over there in MRS bitching about how this and that and the other thing are horrible and mortally wound men's financial, social, and legal lives and men are really the oppressed gender. I'm here trying to have a productive conversation with you about promoting healthy interaction and equality for both genders. You have no fucking cause to treat me in the smallest way the same as you'd treat a flat-out MRS agent provacatuer sneaking in here to willfully transform the conversation into something male-centric, yet you are. Don't you fucking dare become the self-righteous, self-involved, dismissive bigot yourself and say any discussion of men, however, coincidental and secondary to the primary discussion, constitutes some unacceptable waste of your time or affront to your purpose.

Again, either you care about fixing shit for everyone or you don't. Don't give me this bullshit that any discussion of men's issues, which I didn't even intend to fucking bring up but you people forced this end of the conversation to become about, constitutes hypocritical male self-pity or some perversion of male privilege seeping into your sacred women's space or whwatever bullshit you're shoveling.

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