@My cat hates Tom Cruise: Oooh yes. That scene made me think about this video. I'm pretty sure Thor was going for the collective sighing effect, but I've never been able to figure out whether 300 was (and it's funnier if not).

@palegirl: Not when there's Bitty.

Mothers, or parents?

@sslovesav: Yup. See, for instance, this research into women's salary expectations.

All right. And now for gender- neutral NOT light beer.

While I don't want to suggest their conclusions are off-base, I frown at this bit:

@stagbeetle: My sister - who has a son and a daughter - says the same. However, I'm pretty sure kids get clued in at a VERY young age, by tells we might not even notice. Did you ever hear of the experiment where people were played two tapes of babies crying and asked what they thought was wrong? The first kid, they…

I remember a study among sex offenders (I think it's this one [www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov] ) convicted for sexual assault against children that showed that many of them were not actually exclusively or even primarily sexually attracted to children - it wasn't in the first place sexual attraction that made them abuse kids.…

Exactly.

Came in her to post exactly that!

I'm sorry, but that't not true.

I think the ape references started with Tristane Banon, who called DSK 'a chimp in heat' in her interview in 2007.

Ha! I saw his name and immediately thought: why should anyone take anything he says seriously after Expelled?

I'm eagerly awaiting Bernard-Henri Levy's next article, which, I imagine, will be a virulent defense of his good friend Julian Assange's good qualities and importance to the world.

Which makes it so much the worse, imo, because he's trading on the authority of his profession, when he's actually defending his buddies and deflecting blame away from them.

All true, but Koekje above was specifically addressing the idea that France is permissive towards sexual assault.

Depends ENTIRELY on the country. Europe is big and diverse.

Why European? Maybe France. I couldn't say, though it would make sense. But Europe?

Then again, for insiders, of which there must be a hell of a lot for a person this powerful, this seems to have been pretty much common knowledge. Female journalists not wanting to interview him alone seems to indicate that.

So am I, to be honest.