Well.. it's part of the defense of a child's mind, ya know? You can't grow up thinking your parents don't love you, because you would have no.. safe haven.

Look at mortality rates and compensation per occupation as examples: linesman, firefighter, police officer, commercial fisherman, roughneck, construction, long-term military service, helicopter pilot. Many of these jobs are outdoors and although not exclusive to men, typically just are (maybe 85% on average) that…

Do you see more women or men in more highly compensated fields that are dangerous, require extensive travel, are outside/heavy construction, etc? There isn't one general rule of thumb, but, this is also part of the difference. I agree that child-bearing is a burden to bear, especially financially. However, it's…

You know, sometimes it IS the black guy. Especially when his DNA is in and on the victim and all over the crime scene.

I think she's innocent. They found Rudy Guede's DNA all over the crime scene and his fingerprints were on the murder weapon. The prosecution's story of how Amanda and Raffaele were involved in a "sex game" seems dubious at best.

I'm a former Ravens cheerleader as well. Professional cheerleading in the NFL is not a job. Everyone on the Ravens knows this and either has a FT job/career, is currently a student, or is looking for a FT job/career. It is a hobby and literally no one does it for the purpose of earning a living for his/herself or…

"This job requires tradeoffs and is not perfect, and therefore is lamentable" is a spectacularly dumb argument.

The takeaway for me is that there are male NFL cheerleaders?

This is why feminism/womanism has such trouble being taken seriously. The utter hatred for Thomas because (at worst) he spoke very inappropriately compared to a total pass (and complete adoration) for Bill Clinton after he RAPED a woman. Feminism can call me and ask to be taken seriously when they rectify this. …

Subsistence in that they live entirely off the land? No. But there are a shit-ton of people who get a big, big chunk of their diet this way. I've got a friend who grew up on squirrel and rabbit and venison. Her dad had a job, but they had a lot of kids, so that's how they ate. (She's a vegetarian now. Bad memories.)…

I'm sure in the backwoods of Appalachia you can find a few. Or at least the think they need to. I'm sure they may get food stamps or have jobs as well, but getting a deer in the freezer helps them through the winter.

Maybe not but I'm willing to bet those rednecks have way more experience with firearms than Hayden Pabst Von IronicStache.

I'm giving myself an Adult Award this week because the other day I asked a guy out, he said he wasn't interested, we had a conversation about it, and now we're going to continue being friends and I feel good about it.

Notice in their own coverage, Deadspin didn't say Sherman "had strong words for Crabtree in interview" or Sherman "goes off on Crabtree post-game one camera". No, Deadspin chose Sherman "goes nuts on Erin Andrews." Now, tell me how taking a fair amount of inferential leeway with Knapp's tweet is more defensible than,…

I generally agree with what you are saying, however: I'm not sure how Hannan was supposed to separate her past (which made it clear she was a con-woman) from her gender identity in the piece. Using only the background information he could find on Dr. V from 2001 to present, I don't think the story could have been told…

At some point someone needed to realize that this story was no longer about a quirky putter with a bizarre back story, and that instead it was about a tragedy. It was remarkably tone deaf even without the controversy regarding her being outed.

"Freed from New England's top corner, Demaryius Thomas racked up 105 of his 134 yards after Talib left the game."

We will not rest until we see a fat, non-white, trans, gay woman from a poor background with some sort of mental disorder AND physical disability modeling for every clothing company in America.

And how does a person respond to something like this? How does a woman who started reading this website as a teenager, who used to seek refuge here when her ideas about gender and equality were shot down by her friends, peers, and sometimes even family, who for some reason imagined this place as being a center for…

This. I had a Vietnamese friend in college who started dating a black guy and her family disowned her. She said her family wasn't the exception and that almost everyone back home would have reacted the same if one of their family members dated or married a black person. There's also a lot of racism between North…