I hate that so many of these stories are “shitty things happened so I stopped doing X to avoid them.” Girls should be able to do their fucking bike-a-thons without creeps around! ARGH!

With the small island religious mentality I grew up surrounded by, yes it was always the girl’s fault if she got looked at cause she was showing it off somehow or wanted it. When I was 10 maybe, a kid from my school came to visit me one day after school. Full disclosure, we did have a crush on each other, but we were…

St. Jude’s Bike-a-thon. I was about 12 or 13, skinny as a rail (I was a late bloomer). I was BOOKING IT, back and forth on this road that they used to count as our “laps” that we were sponsored for. By booking it, I mean, out of my bike seat and just pedaling standing up. A man working one of the lap stations at the…

Friendly?

No, man, no, this is the face of nightmares. NOW I EAT YOU. Run, little primate, run all you want, for I AM YOUR DEATH!

That's an interesting observation. It makes sense. Our ancestors would have seen plenty of lions and other predators end the lives of those around them and certainly regard them as demons.

There is also a novel called something something the Tsavo lions.

... I want to do some genetic studies right now.

Seriously! Not sure what lion they're looking at, but even the preview made me pee my pants a little bit.

People like you are the reasons we can't have nice things and warning labels exists that read like common fucking sense.

I think your lizard brain might be malfunctioning, that looks terrifying.

Disagree. Lion's face is full on "GTFO I KILL YOU NOW!" There is 0% "friendly" going on here.

"If you return the kings and queens of Narnia, I will leave you alone. But if you don't, I will hunt you, I will find you, and I will kill you."

The second coming was a much more intense experience in Narnia.

I can't say I know much about how Urban Fantasy that doesn't feature a wisecracking Chicago wizard works, but it seems to me like the genre's got a ready-made archetype for a badass older female protagonist if someone wants to just go back and look at all the witches in folklore. Perhaps your old UF protagonist is…

I, for one, would love a Mrs. Pollifax character in urban fantasy... older woman, bored to tears by her banal existence, walks into S.H.I.E.L.D. or Torchwood or somesuch and volunteers to start kicking ass and taking names, very politely.

Science isn't even a good excuse because there are rules of ethics now that prevent researchers from doing non- consensual research like that. Sounds like he's grasping at straws.

So he still has a job - he must do since he signed the contract stating he'd make no more videos - and he got one piece of hate mail, and once a ghost knocked on his door. And HIS life is ruined.

:looks at Brianna Wu:
:looks at Giant Spacekat employees losing work:
:looks at locks on Brianna Wu's doors:
:looks at Anita…

"If you look at the history of people who do actually get prosecuted for threatening women," she told Jezebel by phone this morning, "invariably when it goes to court they say, 'Hey, hey this was just a joke."

In a comment, he added, "The experiment was a resounding success. We will collect the necessary data from this last livestream, and then we'll consider the exercise closed."