I’ve volunteered in homeless shelters in Nashville, and been very aware of the issue in my area. I don’t know if you’re one of the people I’ve helped, but regardless of whether you were, or regardless of whether you got any help or not, I wouldn’t be surprised if you received some pretty awful treatment here. Speaking as a Nashville resident I’d like to apologize for that. The people of this city can, and absolutely should, treat fellow citizens–especially the homeless ones–better.

As an exercise, I did an image search and found the “A” in an ornamented Old English font is a well established  “Scarlet Letter”. In any case design space is huge and it would only takes some minor tweaking to fix, if indeed anything needs fixing.

For me the real question is why are we arguing? 

“Can’t we differentiate this a little?” and
“Can’t we all just get along?”

have similar rings to them.   May cool heads (and warm hearts) prevail.

Still, we can dream. I’d be happy for the increase of support to be in the places that matter. Our governments and ruling bodies, because at least that way change could be legislated. However, I’d really love it if more guys could see how this affects women, and care enough to get behind it, without seeing it as an attack on them.

We need to get away from the one side wins, the other side loses thinking, as much as we need to get away from seeing sides in the first place.

There might be explanations. But hell… those two examples you just mentioned are sickening. I’m equally disappointed that Louis CK would join in support of Tosh. Understandable based on the fact that his humour is off-colour, and very cutting edge – but there have been other comics who have, while being supportive of no topic is off-limits, have also come down heavy on the in-appropriateness, and need to be *very* careful about how you approach such an issue.

Misandry exists, but we live in a male dominated world. How guys have the audacity to make claim that we’re disadvantaged, how the restoration of balance is such a terrible thing, and then go on to play that card and expect to get any real sympathy is beyond me.

I hate how it’s mainstream to say shit like “I got raped by the IRS!” but a pedophile had “sexual relations” with a 13 yr. old.

Just in the last 2 weeks:

* A man made a game where you beat up a feminist who is researching tropes and stereotypes of women in videogames. In this game you get to click on a picture of Anita Sarkeesian and watch as her face becomes bruised and battered. Previously, she was subjected to death and rape threats for the research. Other women who have protested this have also been subject to death and rape threats. Every comment thread in newspapers discussing this is filled with posters justifying the game and lamenting the apparent misandry they face.

* Tosh ‘joked’ about a woman being gang-raped when she complained about his rape jokes. Other comedians joined in supporting Tosh including, to my disappointment, Louis C.K.  Xeni objected to this and was subjected to a Twitter storm of misogyny. A thread here a Boing Boing was closed due to offensive comments.

Thank you for sharing and letting me know of this campaign!

There are many things that women have to fight for that I don’t, purely based on gender. This is unacceptable, and anyone who feels that it isn’t, needs to look closely at their own motives for that belief.

Thank you for your honesty, Maureen, and your friend for their permission to tell that story. It’s a chilling account of how lopsided the world we live in is.