Well... isn't it? Maybe if I had cited this right off the bat:

Well... if you went to grad school and you don't get how I can be so annoyed that we're talking about fat people instead of much deeper issues like gender and race... then I don't think you'll ever understand my point of view.

And you're condescending.

Sure, I do tend to forget that Jezebel's a blog at times. (Like this one.) She wanted to rage a bit about it, she's an author on this blog - so I guess that's her right.

That's nice. One difference: mine's true.

I wish to God I was trolling. I'm a grad student, and I've become pretty disillusioned and bitter. It's sort of the only sane reaction when faced with this every day.

I don't know where to begin, so I'll act like I'm cooking spaghetti and see what sticks:

Yes it is.

That's not true actually. If you sync 1Password with Dropbox, they include an HTML file. If you access that HTML file on any (modern) browser via Dropbox, from anywhere, you can copy and paste your passwords. It's stored in 1Password/1Password.agilekeychain/1Password.html. Then you have two-factor authentication…

This isn't how heat sinks work. They are designed to increase surface area available to dissipate heat through conduction with air. They are thermally conductive so that they can conduct heat to these surfaces. This thing has little contact with the mug, especially if the mug isn't flat on the bottom. So while it…

If Dwayne is "duh-wayne", then is Dwight "duh-wite"? I don't think so...

I recommend clicker training with doggie treats.

The sharpness isn't actually manufactured. They've figured out a way to deconvolve the motion the camera made during the exposure. I'd like to know how much goes into this - whether they assume simple motion or more complex motion, if they use a point-spread function at all, etc. But the information is there,…

Pretty sure Apple would nix the apps if this were true. They probably called up the manufacturer specs on the LED, checked out its steady-state performance, saw it was within tolerance, and said "great, it works". I bet it took 5 people all of half an hour.

So yeah, it sounds like the landlord's going overboard for sure. It's their responsibility to maintain the place in good repair and that includes plumbing.

So yeah, I've learned that I was wrong, both specifically about what I said, and about generalizing pretty much anything about anybody.

That all sounds about right-on to me. That's exactly what I meant about gender/sex differences being noise - statistically useless even in large populations.

Hey thanks! I was expecting people to give me a rough time so it was okay. Lol, I mean, it's the Internets after all, even if you're on point there's going to be somebody who'll call you out on something they don't like.

And I almost totally ignored your own story. :( One of my best friends kicked all of our butts in high school calc. I competed with her because she was the best, and that was actually the foundation of our friendship. I miss her - she passed away in a motorcycle accident. I found out after that she'd switched to…

Hi! I'm sure you didn't notice, but I've had this conversation about half a dozen times in this thread. What I said just didn't appreciate some (well - almost all) of the nuances, and I've changed my way of thinking about positive stereotypes, these specific ones and in general. As soon as I stereotype somebody, I…