I was 11 as well (two months away from turning 12, though). Last day of sixth grade. Man that sucked. I don't think that's considered super early so I wouldn't worry.

Yes!! I was a Girl Scout for 12 years and then worked as a GS day camp counselor. All of the hardcore lifer Girl Scouts are usually really liberal, crunchy granola, and not into that whole strict gender role nonsense. (Though many of the individual group leaders do not fit this category - lots of moms start troops for…

I understand where you're coming from. But in the case of people who are unaware of health concerns, doctors should stress increased exercise and healthy eating - not the assumption that fat = unhealthy or fat = stupid and unaware. There are plenty of unhealthy skinny people who would equally benefit from such a…

I look forward to it! :)

I'm not the biggest fan of Dr. Fisher. She's heavily into evolutionary psychology and when I taught a biological anthropology intro course, I used to have my students read a paper by her and then critique it. It was easy enough to poke holes in her theories even for first semester freshmen without a solid background…

Me too. This makes me feel a little bad about myself. My pin it button didn't work for like two hours today and I got all itchy like I was in withdrawl.

NC needs teachers like crazy. If you have an education degree it's basically a guaranteed job - at least, that's what I've heard.

Oh, and abortion rights. I also consider those to be more important than the economy.

I consider civil rights to be more important than the economy, personally, especially with the state it's in now (slowly recovering). I also think that we need to raise taxes on the wealthy, which Romney had no plan to do. And finally, I don't really get your argument. The economy is getting better. Unemployment is…

Seriously. People have LOST THEIR MINDS over this election. So many conservatives seem to literally believe that because Obama is President, our society will devolve into cannibalism within the next month or so.

Well then all I think we need to say is, "thank you, sluts!!"

Thanks for responding so thoughtfully. I was very leery of accepting my friends' sole opinion as complete truth, and I'm glad to have a balancing perspective.

This is what I'm trying to tell myself too. I get annoyed at the folks who think that Obama is going to cause some kind of societal meltdown, so I suppose I shouldn't get overly dramatic about Romney. Yet.

A friend of mine who was raised Mormon (she identifies as Post-Mormon, not Ex-Mormon) told me that she believes Romney's vagueness and flip-floppiness is directly related to his Mormon training, especially missionary training.

Fox News is clearly worthless and biased and this "story" about the scary black dude is clearly ridiculous. However, IF this guy is indeed a member of the New Black Panthers (which I have no idea if he is or not), then I can see how that would be intimidating. They are a hate group. If a KKK member was standing…

The Southern Poverty Law Center lists the New Black Panthers as a hate group: http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/new-black-panther-party

North Carolina just banned gay marriage, but it is raining here (and snowing in the mountains). Guess we haven't done enough to stave off God's wrath.

what site have you been reading? This very article is a counter example of what you just said.

I came in to make a comment about where the study was conducted as well. I don't know much about gender in Hong Kong society, and it seems like this could make a huge difference in how the study results could be generalized to *everyone*.

Maybe that's true and maybe that's not. I'm not a part of this community and I don't know the context. But even if this is true, it doesn't give people the right to downplay and demean women for speaking out about issues in the skeptic community (which I have heard many stories about and not just from Watson). It also…