Yeah, they aren't bad for an old Russian dude.

I seized on that, too. Semi-popular? Them's fighting words around these here parts.

Love.

I get a strong impression that he is using "power suit" to refer to "a suit", just one that happens to be on a woman. He obviously doesn't like it when female colleagues use the same tools available to professional men (suits, loud voices) to command respect or establish authority.

Only the Big Momma's House movies.

I second the Philosophy hypothesis! Bro wants to live in the fucking Republic

Ladies and gentleman, the next head of his philosophy department.

I don't know. I'm getting a huge whiff of '"Philosophy, with a focus on periods prior to contemporary times, when the discipline was ruined by identity politics."

The use of "female" is so freaking weird. He talked about "female academics" like he is studying the hunting habits of some unusually aggressive marsupials.

It's almost like intelligent, highly educated women expect their ideas to be treated with as much respect as men's. Silly female academics.

The irony!

Instinct tells me a lot of his male colleagues don't find him particularly pleasant, either.

"They were men and women who were discriminated against"

And it helps so much that U.S. investor-held companies (which is the large majority of the big employers) are seemingly interested only in worshiping at the altar of the NYSE and doing pretty much anything if only it'll mean a constantly-rising stock price. Wage cuts? Layoffs? Offshoring and outsourcing? Cutting costs…

Do you honestly think 'Murica is going to get the best and brightest CEOs if we only pay them 48X average worker pay like they do in Socialist Denmark? I'm sure our CEOs are worth AT LEAST 354 times average pay. It's not like they go around crashing our the world economy or that they're having to pay penalties for…

I'm pregnant right now and tired of my current job — this story is thought provoking and inspirational.

Amen. Also, newsflash, world: Consent is not a one-time thing.

Norman Reedus played him in the movie The Conspirator.

In Jewish tradition, the spirit sticks around the immediate area where they died for a week after the death, and then wanders the earth for 40 days or something like that. My family never really cared about the Jewish death traditions until my other grandmother passed when I was six. My mother claims she dreamt about…

When I was in my early twenties, my dad had surgery. It was similar to gastric bypass, and not considered life-threatening. According to the surgeon, who specialized in this particular type of surgery, his changes of survival were 95%. So we weren't especially worried.