Reply #158: Shouldn't we be about changing hearts and minds? [View All]

90% of the responses to threads about antisocial behavior either defend it (if it's seen as justified retaliation) or advocate retribution in kind.

Is the objectification of women discouraged by encouraging the objectification of men?

Fortunately my wife and I met when we were teens growing up in the same working-class rural town. It never occured to either us to consider if we were marrying up or down. Shoulder-to-shoulder, we did the best we could - starting from scratch.

I find the kind of economic productivity/hotness calculus embodied by the OP quite disgusting. I consider people who actually expend any intellectual bandwidth thinking this way quite pitiable, at best.