I definitely believe that what someone does in private, on their free time, should not affect their employment. A teacher should be allowed to go into a bar and have a good time without fearing having someone taking their photo and distributing it online, which could lead to their termination. They have a right to a…

Ah, but you see they do this wonderful little bit of mental acrobatics (who says men aren't as flexible as women!) that totally allows them to justify taking creepshots while "loving" their mammas.

I can't really imagine why a woman would need an inflatable sex doll.

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Not fulfilling relationships where both partners are equals and respect each other, he doesn't.

The discomfort of one minority gender in a group where one gender dominates is almost always lost on someone within the majority. Women are more often than not the minority, but it absolutely happens to men in large groups of women too (and not necessarily because "all men are dumb who think of women as vaginas",…

Female ligers are sometimes fertile. Male ligers are not.

As a biologist, you should know that recent findings have shown that not all hybrids are necessarily sterile. In particular, female ligers are actually fertile rather frequently (the male ones are sterile).

This study doesn't really prove anything, but it's a well-known fact that 1 in 12 men have some kind of a colour vision deficiency, whereas among women it's something like 1 in 250. Nothing major, but they still see fewer hues and shades and are more likely than not to conflate to similar colours as being the same.…

A lot of it has to do with the positioning of the uterus. Most women have their uterus sitting in such a way so when the fetus gets to a certain size, they start to show, etc. Some women, however, have a uterus that's positioned in a different way so that they show almost no physical signs (there are terms and more…

Actually, I don't at all doubt her statistical prowess. In this case it's just the presentation of those stats that bothers me. The part about mandatory statistics in high school was actually aimed more broadly because there is just so much rampant misuse of stats and people being duped into thinking something because…

Yeah, first I saw your comment and rolled my eyes - like, "it can't be that bad". Then I clicked the link and visibly cringed. Those are abominations. Especially that second graph.

Oh god. I've traveled on the trains in Russia. Those "cars that are meant to hold only four" are boxes that are at MOST 2 meters x 2 meters x 2 meters (if not smaller), with four bunk beds. How you could possibly pack 10 people in there, let alone 20....

Um.... I kind of think that 5% is juuuust slightly better than eerily Nazi-like trains ferrying citizens to prisons where they'd be lucky if they had a bed to sleep on. And I think it's also telling that Russia doesn't even HAVE statistics regarding abuse and rape of prisoners (which I'm guessing is hella higher than…

I don't hate science. I'm a science major. Animal Biology science major, with a fair bit of background in evolutionary biology. It's fascinating stuff.

See, that's my opinion on a lot of physical/athletic things that "boys do better than girls". Well, duh. It's because it's optimized for boys. Hence, they do better. It's like saying boys fit better into a wet suit designed for boys, since they actually have use for that awkward bit of room at the crotch that goes…

Replying to myself because I can't edit - I'm using "artificial selection" rather than "sexual selection" because in the cases of human societies, the selection of the partner would also be decided on by other individuals, facing a different set of criteria.

Artificial selection is one of the seven mechanisms of evolution - and just happens to be one of the four primary ones - as accepted today. (The other three main mechanisms are Natural Selection, Genetic Drift, and Gene Flow, with the remaining three mechanisms of slightly lesser importance being Mutation, Symbiosis…

I don't understand this mentality. AT ALL. My boyfriend is bisexual (I'm straight) and he's committed, loving, responsible and is really into me. He also just happens to like dick, and it's unbelievably refreshing to be able to discuss dudes and dicks with my boyfriend and actually have him pitch in enthusiastically.…

UUUGGHHH That whole "submissive" bullshit? I just heard it a few weeks ago from a "concerned" friend of my mother's, who cornered me in the bathroom and advised me that I wasn't being "feminine" enough, that I was "too dominant" and how I need to make myself pretty so my boyfriend can show me off to his friends while…