I am forever thankful that I’ve been spared the extraordinary period pain most of the women in my family suffer from. My Aunt once had pain that was so bad, she passed out cold on the ground in a parking lot next to her car with the car door open. At the time (late ‘80s), she was in sales in the male-dominated…

Nah, it is actually completely uninteresting from an evolutionary standpoint! Seriously! Women past childbearing age have absolutely no bearing on evolution, so people studying evolution should typically ignore them.

Yeah, but evolution is fueled by random mutation. As long as living past menopause doesn’t significantly hurt genetic fitness, there doesn’t have to be an actual benefit.

Why am I even alive today as someone who has chosen not to have kids?

I agree with the substance of your comment but I don’t see what it has to do with Steinam’s stupid insult against Sanders’ young feminist supporters. In that case, you have an example of an older powerful establishment feminist dismissing younger women’s voices in favor of letting young men speak for them. It’s pretty…

OMG this! My threshold for contributing to class is that I thoroughly understand the material AND have something substantial AND novel to add. With guys, they seem to believe they’re blessing the proceedings with the sound of their inane, uninformed fucking voices.

100% sure that this kind of bias will not stop dudes from letting the woman in their study groups do all of the work.

“Something under the conscious is going on,” Grunspan said. “For 18 years, these [young men] have been socialized to have this bias.”

Men were.

Yeah, I was thoroughly disappointed. Of course most shows aren’t great in the first episode but I wasn’t expecting to be bored. When the smug, macho voice-over started: “So this is my story. Clouded by lost brain cells, self-aggrandizement, and maybe a little bit of bullshit” I realized I was doing the jerk-off…

It’s Martin Scorsese

Somehow I already knew this in my gut just from the commercials. Just a bunch of old white rockers jerking off to how amazing everything was for them back in the day. I’m sure someone will love it but certainly not my cup of tea.

So much is wrong. The reactions to coke — way over the top. Also not that big of a thing then. The timing is off. A leather-clad punk band before the Ramones formed? Totally wrong. You’re right about the dialog being terrible. And record companies did completely suck. Just like now!

God, I’m so BORED with this shit. Another straight white baby boomer dude self-glorying wankfest (nostalgia edition). How can a single demographic be so endlessly entertained with itself! And so institutionally narcissistic that it assumes that literally everyone agrees on how fascinating every detail of their…

I absolutely agree with you that Dowd is an asshole, but this part is utter bullshit:

Also? In case Mr. President anyone is wondering: I have a legal background, I look great in black AND I already own a lace collar. I also like to bang on things with a wooden hammer.

Not American, don’t live there, but am I the only one hoping that Elizabeth Warren will some day rule the world? In her amazing, gracious, polite, powerful af way? The crush I have on her, it’s a thing of beauty. Ship her over, we’ll name her Empress of Europe or something and she can rule together with Angela Merkel.

A Supreme Court justice, ideally, is not a Democrat or a Republican but rather someone who can impartially evaluate complicated legal issues irrespective of politics.