I do try to add my voice to calling it out, it's just a matter of such deeply ingrained attitudes that changing them is a process, and addressing the problems just seems to too often get guys clinging to them that much harder. And I have no idea how to handle the echo chambers, places where guys are surrounded by…

As in my reply to Resh, it's all just excuses centered around our own comfort. We could end sex trafficking but it requires addressing so many fundamental problems with how men view women and what that often does to women themselves that it's so much easier to rationalize that it's unavoidable. And I don't even begin…

My theory is that pushback against pretty much every social issue comes down to comfort. We HATE being pushed out of our comfort zones. Liberals seem somewhat better about taking care of others' comfort as part of our own, but we're also notoriously bad about deciding their comfort for them, making us often unreliable…

I humbly accept the cookie, and split it in two and offer you the slightly-larger half, because you're right, it shouldn't merit a cookie. It should be a baseline expectation. The notion that it's "just some idiots" is exactly the attitude that allows these things to remain, guys holding their comfort with the status…

It's been a reminder I've received a few times, as much as some of us men may consider ourselves allies, we must always be careful not to create that good vs bad mentality in our own minds, and remember that we grew up in a lot of the same attitudes and assumptions and are thus sometimes prone to goofing up. That goes…

I apologize for giving the impression that they surprised me. It wasn't that I was shocked that they happen, but that there's a difference between knowing and actually having someone share it from their own point of view. It's like the difference between having read all about Mt. Everest and actually going there and…

Thank you for pointing this out.

As a guy who was already fairly aware that these things take place, it still felt like being hit by a tsunami reading all these tweets yesterday and this morning. Guys trying to argue that "Not all men!" do these things need to shut the fuck up and realize that enough of us do that EVERY SINGLE WOMAN has a story. Just…

Almost had this happen to me. Driving down 101 from San Jose to Gilroy at night, pickup truck pulls into my lane ahead of me. I see the shadow of a tarp stretched over a large load in the bed of the truck....then suddenly that shadow becomes a lot larger. I see an object bouncing towards me, swerve to the right, and…

Diderot Effect wasn't great, but for some reason I couldn't help buying more of the DLC...

But were these good guys with guns, or bad guys with guns? Maybe bad guys with good guns and the guns were just doing their civic duty! LaPierre was right!

Gawker had a post the other day in which a man open carrying had his gun "accidentally" discharge in the holster. Sounds like he missed one of those ifs.

He made me rethink spoons.

They're fake, she's not even good at that.

It's from Norse mythology. Yggdrasil is the Tree of Life, everything that exists basically exists somewhere in relation to it, while not necessarily being a part of it.

Fair enough. Expand it too far out and we'd have to throw in almost everyone in the books.

Yes! Hell, the most effective assassin in the book isn't even technically an assassin, he's just a force of nature who's really, really good at leaving things dead: Karsa Orlong. He was the only one able to kill Rhulad to spite the Crippled God.

My Sheps were Danielle, Dan (feminine of my name, diminutive of my name), and Joseph (because, well, duh).

The second is correct, Ig-drah-sil.

Technically speaking, he could return, as he retired to raise his kids, and as they get older he gets more available for work again.