This is better.

@#$%ing monarchs.

I'm still ticked at George Lucas for never showing us Leia with a lightsaber.

I think they understand it. The men in your office aren't their market.

My twelve-year-old would not listen to this.

I think it's a golf metaphor, It means, "It's okay. That didn't count."

I don't mean to get all personal, but this does not sound like a positive relationship. You don't want to be setting up housekeeping with a person with whom you have a relationship that involves "mulligans." Really, you should both be walking in opposite directions at least one whole step before "mulligans."

I'm honestly unsure of the racism, conscious or otherwise, in Rumsfeld's words.

I can't help but suspect there's more to this, and it gets worse.

Huh. I have no idea.

Are tank tops that distracting? I recall that being mentioned in the excellent comicbook Persepolis, where the main character and narrator says something about how there's a dress code for girls that forbids them from showing their legs, but also one for boys that forbids them from showing their arms on the same…

Well, it seems obvious, then, that even if you were in favor of dress-codes of some sort, you can't have different dress-codes for different genders without being sexist. If the boys are allowed to wear leggings, then girls should also be allowed to wear leggings. Logically. Right?

It's hard to think of a gender-swap equivalent to this. Is there anything that male students could wear that would be too distracting to female students (or other people prone to distraction by boys)?

I definitely agree that most of the things women are told on the subject of protecting themselves against rape are pretty ridiculous. Especially the dress code stuff.

But it does help to take care of those people that would take advantage of you while vulnerable, doesn't it?

I get that it's not a complete solution (not that I think there is any complete solution in the sense that rape will probably always exist on some level), isn't that still less rape?

I know this is one of those questions that gets me banished to the greys, but:

I've never understood the appeal, let alone the presumed necessity.

Is keeping men still a thing that women want to do? I was the under the impression that this was no longer so presumable as the author seems to think.

The problem isn't that people are crazy. The problem is that American society has become so corrupt, starting at the top, that sane people just aren't willing to put anything past the government or a corporation.