@gloeden31: I think you're wrong. There's a certain presumptuousness at work in this article that I think is a symptom of his mentality rather than his gender. There are men out there that accept their own ignorance, and use that to be better, humbler partners, rather than believe they understand the "female…

Unfortunately she really is that stupid. Apparently she didn't even *learn how* to vote until the 2000 presidential election...

@person9911: No, she's a Tea Party crazy (as her Wikipedia page expands on).

It's definitely more American-style. China is a developing nation; Italy is not. As I said, it's actually the poorest regions of Italy that are facing the biggest health problems, as it often is here in the United States. So it's obviously something different than just having more money to afford more food.

So you think that the statement "There are too many cultural factors at play to simply blame the individual (lack of education, media, poverty, etc)" equates to poor people being stupid? That is an incredibly simplistic and facetious way of twisting those words. Yes, there ARE cultural factors at work which have led…

@onestrawplz: It's a quarter system because we have an optional "summer quarter" if you want to take additional classes, or if you aren't a student here during the year and you want to take UChicago classes. So it is kind of a trimester system, as we have three separate sessions of classes per year.

There's a certain cultural threshold for misogyny that there isn't for racism, and I wish people would take misogyny as seriously as they take racism. The jackass at USC wasn't thrown out of his frat until word got out, and the administrators tried to cover up the whole incident, while Wallace was denounced publicly…

Quarter. I'm at the University of Chicago and it's finals week for us as well.

@vikkitikkitavi: Why can't women just be individuals?

@Justin Shelby: I see your point, but I don't think you picked a good analogy. The difference is that one cigarette is not necessarily a life-changing decision; what makes smoking a habit is the accumulation of many, many cigarettes. The same is not true for abortion. Having one abortion is a life-changing decision,…

The problem lies in the fact that Dan Savage, gay or not, does not exist in a void. His distaste for vaginas merely adds to a chorus in a culture that has a general hatred for female genitalia. This hatred takes the form of the notion that vaginal odors and secretions are disgusting and need to be eliminated or…

The problem lies in the fact that Dan Savage, gay or not, does not exist in a void. His distaste for vaginas merely adds to a chorus in a culture that has a general hatred for female genitalia. This hatred takes the form of the notion that vaginal odors and secretions are disgusting and need to be eliminated or…

@Elaken: As someone who has listened to all 228 podcasts —

@ShariC: Being white in Japan is different than being, say, African American in the United States — to start with, you choose to live in Japan as a minority of your own free will; you weren't born there. Whites have not been oppressed historically by the Japanese, and white people who travel there still benefit from…

I just had to compliment you on your choice of picture — Monica Vitti is awesome (an amazing actress and a strong, smart woman), and Antonioni is an amazing filmmaker, whose feminist undertones have yet to be fully recognized by many viewers. It would be really awesome to see posts on the feminism (or not) of auteurs…

There's another side of it that I alluded to — having fulfilled parents who find happiness outside of their families means healthier children as well, who will then replicate the actions of their parents to their own benefit. So it's not just that the kids can take it, it's also that living your life for you, not for…

@SlayBelle: I agree. Being a parent doesn't mean putting your life on hold for 18 years. Using the example of Kelsey Grammer, he is now 56. Their children are both under 10 years of age. If he puts off his career (which, being an actor, involves travel, particularly to New York City) for ten more years, or even five…

@ragweedjones: With all due respect, that response simply perpetuates the notion that sexual tension is always involved in any male-female interaction, even in something so harmless as a little girl selling Girl Scout Cookies.

@krokodil: Excellent. Reminds me of the Woody Allen sketch in "Everything you wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask":

Exactly. Hearing all this bullshit recently (the whole "victim" becoming "accuser" thing) just makes me happy I've gotten the hell out.