oh my god, I lost my shit on that Raptors one. Just something about the way the costume looks plus the way he's slipping around. His tiny little arms by his side, his head flapping around spastically, then the faceplant.

Women can get in all the fender benders they want. It's dudes driving aggressively and/or drunk and killing others as well as themselves that I'm worried about.

Whoaaaaa that site looks amazing, gonna have to sit down and dig into that later. Thanks for the link!

I'm *extremely* interested in building a Steam/media machine for my living room. I haven't really started doing the research, though. It's been almost five years since I last put together a PC, so my knowledge is way out of date. I'd love to hear any general advice you've got, or if you know of any links to…

I imagine the overwhelming majority of her fans don't care about/don't understand any of the issues of race that this brings up. So probably the worst case scenario is she gets some bad press from people who already don't care about her or her music, while her fans remain indifferent, and her most loyal fans become…

That doesn't look like a giant...okay, you win, I couldn't do it.

That doesn't look like a giant...okay, you win, I couldn't do it.

Yeah, god forbid you go around shooting alien invaders with unrealistic weapons.

My money's on "bored".

That makes sense. I guess I've been lucky so far, in that I haven't been exposed to that really cynical, selfish style of networking.

Dehumanizing? That seems harsh, though I guess it depends on the context. Personally, I'm super interested in meeting other people in my field, not just to grub up contacts and job prospects. I've always been hesitant to go out to events and meet ups where I didn't know anyone, though. Maybe this tip'll help.

That gif might be the best gif.

I tend to agree. Knowingly getting involved with someone who's cheating on their partner is sleazy, but it's not worth diverting any of the blame from where it truly belongs - squarely on the shoulders of the cheater. The scenario doesn't happen without the cheater going looking for sex on the side, and being willing…

Vigilantism should always be regarded as problematic and dangerous, but it becomes necessary when the existing legal system can't or won't protect people from being victimized. That's overwhelmingly the case with rape victims. Until we can actually trust the various authorities to investigate rape and sexual assault…

The bullying about the rape happened on school grounds.

Haha, that's amazing. You don't need to be a brony to find that hilarious. Scout's the best.

I recently ran my first 5k and actually enjoyed it, despite always hating running in the past. I think I'd like to train up to the point of being able to do 10k runs, but that's as far as I'm interested in going at once. At that point I'd probably just start working on time.

I'm not telling them it's their job to reclaim the term. I'm calling them on actively reinforcing the stereotypes. Many of them aren't just saying "I don't call myself a feminist", they're saying "I don't call myself a feminist because feminism is just about complaining/being angry/hating men/...". Which pretty much…

Do you think that's the way we ought to live our lives, though, letting the most extreme members of a group define that group? Would you give up your faith/religion/philosophy and just find another word for it if extremists who also identified themselves by it started giving it a bad name in mainstream culture?

I normally wouldn't argue with someone over whether they call themselves a feminist or not, because I'm not going to change anyone's mind on that. And I also believe that how someone behaves is more important than the label they choose for themselves. If someone really is advocating for equality, call it a win and…