A lay person can just call someone a sociopath just because they disagree with them. Unless you're actually medical doctor, I don't see any reason why that's not okay. It's just a name, not a diagnosis.

That's awesome! None of the professional societies I'm a part of are cool enough for pins. :(

YES! It couldn't find any moisturizers that didn't have lightening ingredients. I ended up spending about $25 American for a small bottle of basically drug store Neutrogena that they had behind glass counters like department stores cosmetics. It was ridiculous. And yeah, all of the American brands get in on it too.

I'm so sorry. :( That was a pretty bad friend move.

I totally agree. The difference is huge and it really makes me hate people. There are people I just avoid entirely because of the difference in the way that they treated me before and after the weight loss. They were never bad to me before, but they were suddenly exponentially kinder, and I feel like that speaks…

I'm pretty sure it's my dad, or someone doing a great impression of him, so I can hook you up with a phone number!

Yeah it's fucked up. When I lost weight there were a few people who started to be suddenly nice to me and would say really biting things about weight and fat. It was astonishing and enlightening. I avoid them.

And the difference between what red blue and green correspond to are different in the female and male maps, and not in a way that misleads you to think that the change is bigger than it is.

Please, please stop trying to report on science unless you want to hire a science writer. This is so bad. For one, the map is from the paper by Kindig and Cheng, not the blog post by Gardner.

Right? I've always assumed that he's a totally normal guy he just likes to fight a little, which I totally get. But NOPE. The last couple of comments in that exchange were totally chilling.

I never thought if it that way. I really liked that show.

I saw that Boston Legal! Apparently it scared a lot of dudes.

Every now and then when I'm opening I combo lock, I realize that I'm using like my high school freshman locker combo or some other equally random combo that I had no idea still existed in my mind. Brains are weird.

Can you imagine? It'd be like a brazilion times worse than the Amy Poehler/Will Arnett break up. I'm pretty sure it'd be proof that love is completely a lie. They'd mark it down in the history books.

I did suddenly think that, and I'm not sure I'm going to be able to shake it. It makes me feel bad/stupid.

Nope, you're right he should be called out and it was crap that he said it, but I also didn't think that vidya was being fair in implying that he made the joke to deliberately enforce patriarchy. The comment absolutely did, but I don't think he did it on purpose.

I'm clear on that, but it also serves to make it sound like it's extra important.

No, the right to be given the benefit of the doubt that you didn't mean anything malicious by your totally inappropriate comments is based on your record. It's still super inappropriate and he should not have said it, but because he has a record of being a good guy, I assume this was a good guy mistake instead of an…

If they had the same generally great record on women's issues Obama does, of course!

Oh no, I don't think so. I do think that it was really dumb of him to say, and I'd be mortified if someone said it about me, but I don't think that he meant anything by it. I think it was an honest and innocent flub. It does serve to remind us that women's looks are of paramount importance, but I think it's unfair…