Not sure why they're getting worse, but I'd like to think that a sudden increase in sexism is due to people becoming more desperate, perhaps because we're winning the fight.

Careful, your eyes can get stuck if you roll them too much. Since moving to New Zealand, I've heard a surprising number of "I'm not racist, but..." If you need to say that as a disclaimer, don't bother finishing your idiotic sentence. I don't think it's something inherent to NZ, I've just never been outside of my hippie havens (Berkeley, CA and Yellow Springs, OH) for so long before.

There are millions of books and movies with male lead characters that females enjoy. Saying that you don't want to play a female lead because you won't identify with her underlines YOUR problem: You can't identify with females. If you can't identify with them, I frankly don't think you're qualified to have a relationship with any of them, friendship or otherwise.

Oh wow, thank you! I've gotten really sick of this anti-PC crap. And it isn't just about assholes who want to say whatever they want. It's dangerous. John Howard ran on this backlash to get support to become Prime Minister of Australia, because people were sick and tired of those lazy aborigines taking all their hard-earned tax money, etc. Anti-PC was used as an excuse for racism to run rampant, to take what little power the indigenous people of Australia had from them and make them even more destitute and shame them even more. It is used by virtually every conservative person, politician, and pundit to gain support from the population and it works incredibly well. People don't like being called out on their bigotry, and those with power have created a culture where you pat yourself on the back for being a bigot and fighting the "free speech" fight.

Pity that there isn't any real empirical example for proper communism on a large scale.

Proper communism on a large scale existed as the syndicates of Revolutionary Spain, which involved over 7 million people (some say 8) and lasted 3 years despite a raging civil war. http://www.infoshop.org/page/AnarchistFAQSectionI...

Um...you are criticising her for her individual choices as an obviously well-informed, intelligent woman. How dare she look feminine! Feminism is about choice. If a woman wishes to point out sexism, that is completely valid, regardless of what she chooses to wear. Similarly, my choosing to wear a dress and/or makeup, does not render my critiques of our destructive culture invalid.

Haha, I missed that episode.

A man on the sidewalk in New York City keeps howling like a wolf. A woman walks up to him and asks him why he is howling.
"To keep the tigers away," he responds.
"But there are no tigers here," she points out.
He smiles. "See, it works!"

This country is not safer due to our fascist security systems in airports. The fact that no "terrorists" have gotten through tells us nothing. The fact that many, many guns and knives have gotten through undetected despite the fact that the Gestapo get to feel us up and look at our genitals tells us volumes.

At the very least, please read the entire fucking post before replying. Which you very obviously haven't done.

People within the US may consider liberals social democrats, but "liberal" is a large term that encompasses yesterday's Republicans all the way to "progressives," which may be more like social democrats. As for true social democrats, they are called evil fascist socialists in the US.

So your name is Jim? Are you male? What nationality are you? Ethnicity? Species? What is it you type on? We all use labels, that is how humans communicate with each other. I am female, I see myself as female and tell others that I am female, yet others will make assumptions about me based on my being female that may not be true. What is important is to try to understand the underlying meanings of labels, instead of thumbing your nose at anybody who is "incurious" enough to use them. Have fun in your abstract imaginary world where words don't exist.