What has U of C come to? They’re supposed to be doing the classics through the first two years. Utter disappointment, all the way around.

Yup. Whaddaya mean suspicion might cling to a white man after a court has purportedly settled the matter? Because we all know gamer gate was about ethics in journalism. And heaven forfend the reactions might be the result of his personal actions- obviously it can’t be about him, it must be about some secret cabal…

Yeah, the benefit largely rested upon the investigation clearing him. I didn’t think that necessarily settled his innocence but it gave his claims to such a bit more weight.

I was willing to extend the benefit of the doubt right up to “simply because he’s a man.”

Yup. Mr. Logic’s still in academia, and we’ve agreed that he won’t even apply to states where I don’t have such basic rights. His (male) colleagues think he’s crazy for limiting his application pool just for my comfort. We may not be skipping down this road for much longer.

Because he was a white man. And it was only his wife. Not like he was threatening another white man.

Ugh. Mr. Logic and I found super super cheap international tickets for an upcoming trip and I’ve been giddy about going and then I realized that we’ll be flying American. The last time I flew with them was eight years ago when I asked for a blanket while being stuck on the Tarmac for an hour and the flight attendant…

Glad I’m not the only one! I had to read that shit three times slowly.

Have you tried VO5 hot oil treatment? It goes on before shampooing and sits for a minute, so it penetrates the hair and the excess gets washed out. My hair is silky fine and shows the slightest over conditioning immediately, and this stuff repaired years’ worth of damage without turning me into a greaser.

We can agree he’s being an asshole. Either he’s sincere in his assholery and not a troll, in which case I’ve already made my point with him, or he is a troll and therefore no amount of berating, reasoning or cajoling is going to alter his stance, and continuing to respond only makes him happy. So I have nothing more…

I’m reading dude’s remarks as a formal argument about induction, not a claim about women’s welfare. Maybe there are other comments further in the thread that I can’t see, but to the extent that he’s referred to my post he appears to understand its meaning. Strikes me as more pedant than troll.

Those numbers don’t cover me or any of the women I personally know either, so I read them as a lower bound. The stats do help illustrate the gender ratios for both victims and perpetrators, as a counterpoint to the idea that sexual assault and domestic violence are suffered by both genders in equal proportion. They…

Not to go all Goodwin, but similar findings came out of the clean-up after WWII. German neighborhoods with the fewest Jewish people were the most enthusiastic about the Third Reich’s policies. Horkheimer, and I think Arendt, bring it up.

Totally agree on not getting passes. “Can very often become” does imply the mythical causality that abusers become the abused though, and abuse survivors have enough problems without the stigma of moral corruption being bandied about as popular wisdom.

Statistically, past sexual abuse is at best one risk factor for becoming an abuser. A mere one in ten sexually abused boys go on to become predators themselves. Given that victims are predominantly female and perpetrators rarely are, victims overwhelmingly do not go on to victimize others. And the majority of adult…

Thank you. I just change the station whenever one of their songs comes on. Fine, they can be whatever you said they were then, but it’s seriously been 50 years (FIFTY!). Move on with your life.

Even weirder was claiming that the reduction of prenatal care was upping the pregnancy rate. Yes not-preggers is “prenatal” but only if you skip over the whole impregnantion thing. Smells like bs to me.

I wholly agree that we ought not jump to conclusions, but I am confounded by the argument your quote suggests. They appear to be conflating birth control with prenatal care. Because it seems very straightforward that loss of access to pregnancy check ups would increase the risks of giving birth. What’s more, I’d think…

Thankfully there are people whose jobs is to transform anecdotes into data, like the DOJ: http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pd…

It’s not clear to me that the crime rate increase must be due to laxer sentences not sufficiently deterring criminals. It could just as easily be attributed to insufficient re-integration programs. You get out of jail after years, you may not have a place to go to, and even if you aren’t mandated to report the…