Ironic that you use "hysterical" to attack a book about overwhelming male culture. A note on the word's etymology:
It's a word with a very female-baiting history,
coming from the Latin hystericus ("of the womb").
This was a condition thought to be exclusive to women –
sending them uncontrollably and neurotically insane owing
to a dysfunction of the uterus (the removal of which is
still called a hysterectomy).
Yep. I called out the claims about the VC party- more than 3 people who attended the party are on record saying what she claimed occur, didn't- and that includes a woman who stayed until the morning.
That's not to say there aren't huge problems, but we owe it to ourselves to be honest in our reporting.
Yes, I also agree: this only exacerbates the problem. And there is a problem. A good example was the Aziz Ansari babe.net article. I would self-describe as a feminist and it was great that the woman was able to tell her story but I think the reporter did damage to the discussion by _the way_ she told it. We have to be able to critique reporting in order to insist that it is better or it will only get worse.
