Thinking Girl has an interesting post about how the biggest dust-up ever at her own blog (she's guesting at Slant Truth) was when she attacked Nice Guys. In this particular case, she wrote about the Nice Guy infatuation with "pick-up artists" books and tips was misogynist, really strikes at the heart of why the Nice Guy whine ("I didn't get the pussy I deserved not being a dick, so I have to be one to get laid."), the idea that women's very existence is unfortunate, because women are nothing but obstacles between men and the pussy they rightly deserve.

"I'm saying that PUA (pick-up artist) uses an approach that reinforces harmful gender roles on women in order to get laid, and doing so indicates male privilege and is therefore unethical. Yes: I, a lowly feminist blogger, who must be a butt-ugly hairy lesbian feminazi who is stupid and hates men and clearly just needs a good deep-dicking to turn all that around and make me salivate and beg for more, have dared to question the god-given right/biological need/good intentions of the Nice Guys who have TRIED being sweet and kind and respectful but goddamn it that just doesn't work with you selfish bitches who want to keep all that sweet pussy to yourselves and only share with the Bad Boys who treat you like dirt anyway. I have called it like I see it, and pointed out that this practice is misogynistic and relies on male privilege. And for that, I get a shitstorm. Don't question the god-given right/biological need of men to get laid, and its correlative, the duty of women to submit by shutting up and putting out, bitch. It's all about rights and duties."

It's an uncomfortable subject to write about, because just as Alison Stokke deserved to be sexually harassed for having the nerve to be beautiful and in public doing something other than being on display for men, we're treading into territory where victim-blaming is going to get rampant. Particularly with women who do willfully sleep with dicks, because the patriarchy has softened up quite a lot of us to have no self-esteem whatsoever. Those women will be, I guarantee it, flung at me in comments as evidence that the fault belongs to the woman who submits to sex with a man who treats her and all women like unfortunate obstacles. I posit that the compliance of any one person in your rampage of asserting left and right that women's entire existence is a pain in the ass doesn't relieve your responsibility.

I'm mostly posting on this because we now have a new

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