My feminist-loving husband assures me Oryx and Crake is as feminist as it gets. (I only read Alias Grace and The Blind Assassin.) He insisted I include this gif to show his reaction to your date’s statement. Rant quotes include, “as a man I wanted to die,” “the epitome of the male gaze,” “best paired with The Fall.”

It’s no coincidence that the funding for the humamities has been systemically undermined for the last twenty years

They also really hate it when you point out that empiricism is a philosophy.

Education, and specifically the Humanities. High-level literacy, sustained practice in constructing and analyzing arguments, familiarity with historical patterns.

Honestly I’ve been sitting on it for months, and I don’t normally go trolling. But this shithead was just so over-the-top and cocksure, I was thrilled to catch the opening.

Thanks, I’ll be sure to update my ratings system.

3/10

It’s almost enough to rekindle my faith and admiration in academia as a whole.

It transformed the horizon of my life goals.

Found it! “But now, NPG claims that their proposed 400% increase is to make up for “an unsustainable discount” that they have provided UC all along. We find this to be an implausible explanation given the remarkably large sums of money others and we already pay to NPG every year,” and, “We note here only that our…

For reals, don’t fuck with librarians. Back in 2010, the UC system got into a public dispute with Nature Publishing Group about the price of accessing the journal. They asked that NPG not quadruple the rate in one year, or the UCs as a whole would have to stop providing NPG with all that free content and free labor.…

And almost certainly the longest-lasting repercussions. He’ll still have glitter in his scalp ten years from now.

This is some errant nonsense. Yes, there is an emotional draw to theories that support your emotional needs. But there is a difference between (1) an absent father, a handful of pictures, and parsing “birth certificate” from “certificate of live birth;” and (2) all 17 agencies of the IC avowing that Russia was…

Removing him from the lease, so that it’s no longer his legal residence?

I like your dream world. I’m punishing myself by listening to Blabber Spice right now and listening to him trying to throw out new distractions “Hillary! Bill! Obama! Uranium! Leaks!” is alternatingly horrifying and hilariously pathetic.

It’s nice to be able to forecast which wine you’re most likely to like next.

Alas the Supreme Court decided during the Nixon scandal that impeachment was a political issue, not a judicial issue, and “high crimes and misdemeanors” can mean whatever the fuck Congress wants it to.