Well, since you met 3 crazy Texans, it absolutely follows that every single one of the 26 million people who live in Texas are nuts! Science!

The comments on Gawker were filled with some pretty awful Palin-rhetoric. Jezebel's weren't so much. That was back during the old comment system and rules, where you were banned from Jezebel for body snarking or making intentionally sexist remarks. So you're really misdirecting your ire, here. Jezebel actually…

The University of Texas at Austin. One of the premier public universities in the country (and my alma mater). So, misogynist attitudes (and bad sweaters) aren't limited to discount, roadside-stand schools.

The comments in the Daily Texan article include a screenshot of a different blog post where he admits to making out with a 16 year old.

The Texan didn't publish this piece. This was on his blog, the Texan ran a piece mocking it.

The Texan was run by women (ie, the supervising journalism professors were women) for almost all of the 90s and early 00s. And when I worked there, in the early 00s, the staff was at least half women.

The problem is that these dude bros are going to inherit the power structure. They are rich and they are white and they are male. They're going to become the legislators and financiers and business magnates because their parents have the power and money to push them into those positions. So, yeah. It matters how…

Hold up. Why doesn't the article use this guy's real name? He's using the real names and photos of women—but he's too ashamed to consent to give his name to the person he interviewed with? If this is, in fact, a research experiment that will provide "enlightening" data, then certainly he'd be proud to be associated…

Right. My sister's son was delivered by c-section, because during delivery, he just wouldn't fit the old-fashioned way. And I had the thought that my sister probably would've died in childbirth, had this been 100 years earlier. It's entirely possible that the normalization of c-sections is leading to larger babies…

But, is gestational diabetes really the cause in the majority of cases? Just anecdotal, but my sister and my best friend both just had babies that were over nine pounds (one of them over 11 lbs), and neither of them had gestational diabetes. But they were both over 30—and I know that the mother's age is a factor in…

Generally I agree with what you're saying—I just get more of a "trying to be accepted by the cool kids" vibe or like he's trying to use affirmations to create a self image for himself. He doesn't seem as prone to anger as the usual MRA-type does. I don't know. He just makes me sad—and without the anger from his end,…

You're collapsing two separate issues into one argument. The under-representation of women of color is, indeed, an issue. But the poor menz complaint is altogether different. This is a website about women's issues. About feminism. Men are welcome to read and participate in discussion and even, in Doug's case (and…

I'm never this person, but I have to be honest—I think running this piece was mean. I have no problem with that Nice Guys of OK Cupid tumblr. I have no problem outting people for being assholes. But this guy? We have no evidence of him being anything other than socially awkward and self-promoting.

I actually live very nearby the area that the kid lives in. The cops there are way prone to overreaction. At this point, it's likely that they haven't dropped it just because it became a national news case, and they don't want to admit that they were wrong. The thing is—once it was reported, of course the cops…

Sorry if this is repeating what other commenters have already said—

My mom does this for her dogs—two terriers. They just lounge in it like a couple of middle aged ladies in a hot tub. So cute.

My dog is the same way—the only way we ever got her to play in water was by taking her to the dog park (which has a creek running through it) with her best puppy friend. Her friend taught her how to chase and play with the other dogs, and our dog got so into it, that she started running through the water before she…

Yep. My dad once left both my sister and me (she was 13, I was 11) at the mall UNTIL 11 PM. In a not-so-great part of town. The security guards were about to call the police to pick us up when our dad rolled up. Also, he'd take us to the public library downtown and leave us there for over 8 hours during the summer…

Yeah, I have to admit that I don't really get this post. I mean, from what I can tell, the only new piece of the puzzle is that he actually has had some sort of breakdown, so he's actually berating himself rather than defending himself. Other than that, the rest of this—everything he supposedly confessed to— was all…

Black names didn't become commonplace in the US until the Black Power movement in the 70s—then they exploded. Naming your child what is seen as a Black name is about teaching that child that it is okay to be who they are. It's about instilling in them a certain amount of pride in their culture—telling them that they…