Oh, fer cryin' out loud! Look what Slate's blaming on 'the patriarchy' NOW

I think from now on instead of “Thanks, Obama” we should say “Blame the patriarchy” since apparently that’s the real villain.

— Ashe Schow (@AsheSchow) April 20, 2016

They can’t help themselves. It’s like a sickness or something:

Men fake orgasms, too, and we can blame the patriarchy: https://t.co/C9G2BC7dnW pic.twitter.com/A6MKsbmoEP

— Slate (@Slate) April 20, 2016

Oh yeah. This sounds promising:

But the root cause of this problem—faked orgasms as sub-ins for honest conversations about sexual desires—lie in gender norms that compel men to strive for unrealistic benchmarks of sexual performance. “The image is that men are always up for sex, which makes you feel under pressure to perform even when you don’t want to,” Harvard urologist Abraham Morgentaler said of men’s reasons for faking.

…

At first, the knowledge that men, too, feel so much pressure to orgasm that they sometimes fake it makes the whole concept of the fake orgasm seem less insidious: Women aren’t the only ones who are sometimes more concerned with their partners’ feelings than they are with their own pleasure or desire to stop having sex. But when the rationale rests on gendered expectations, it still serves to uphold roles that form the foundation for toxic masculinity.

“Toxic masculinity”? Oy vey.

What CAN’T we blame the patriarchy for? https://t.co/OVa0AgFvFJ

— Ashe Schow (@AsheSchow) April 20, 2016

It’s a pretty handy catch-all, isn’t it?

Evil cosmic deity "Patriarchy" strikes again!@Slate

— ?Jack The King Ophe?? (@BlackIceSheep) April 20, 2016

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@shoe0nhead @Slate Dang Patriarchy back at it again

— ?Thanksgiving Nemo? (@Nemo19089) April 20, 2016

The patriarchy never sleeps! Not when there’s so much evil to spread.

@Slate the fuck is this

— Matti (@deadassusername) April 20, 2016

https://twitter.com/LilMissRightie/status/722891742291169280

@LilMissRightie @Slate Why. Just why

— Andrew Lynch (@GentlemanRascal) April 20, 2016

Because patriarchy! Always and forever.

@Slate In honour of 4/20, the staff at Slate have apparently decided to write an entire article stoned off their balls.

— 文字通りヒトラー (@K00111000) April 20, 2016

Oh man. The baiting is real in this tweet. So real.

Knock it off, @Slate. https://t.co/ZkiFdmUeEx

— CΛΠDICE ❤️S YOU! (@CandiceLikesYou) April 20, 2016

There are few words that make me just aggressively scream nonsense out into the skies and one of those is 'Patriarchy'.

Stahp.

— CΛΠDICE ❤️S YOU! (@CandiceLikesYou) April 20, 2016

@Slate just stahp. pic.twitter.com/n4uOgF0mbK

— ?Thanksgiving Nemo? (@Nemo19089) April 20, 2016

@Slate Delete your account

— Dad Chad (@madchad412) April 20, 2016

https://twitter.com/megaloltaku/status/722898240580890624