This, for sure. (*slight books spoiler*) When the novels last left off, things have played out so that Stannis has a strong likelihood of taking out both Roose and Ramsay. But the show maybe kinda slightly went in a completely different direction with that one, so I’m as curious as you are.

Left this response to a similar comment above, but the short and sweet based on my experience spending time around southerners is that many think that General Sherman’s campaign through the South that ultimately broke the back of the Confederacy amounted to “cheating”. Much of the South still sees the Confederacy as…

Honest answer - they think that General Sherman’s campaign through the South that ultimately broke the back of the Confederacy amounted to “cheating”. Much of the South still sees the Confederacy as made of valorous, swashbuckling gentlemen who engaged in a heroic stand of self-defense against the dastardly North.…

There’s this really interesting tendency for folks with a Catholic upbringing (or at least background) from all ethnicities to pair up. I’ve known a few Cuban-Irish alone, and Italian-Mexican kids to boot.

He was a loser and a hater. You know his mentor, Socrates? He drank hemlock. Hemlock! Who does that? Was a real low-energy guy after that. Sad!

“I’m Rand Paul and you need to get an abortion.” got an honest-to-god laugh

The unfortunate part about that last fact, if true, is that it gives Ted Cruz far more sexual endurance than I would otherwise expect him to have.

That’s pretty awful. There’s always been a tinge of homophobia and “you’re-less-of-a-man”-isms behind her snipes that are ugly and toxic.

That’s not really what I was getting at, and you kind of point out what I was hinting towards. What I meant is that the whole internet PUA culture seems to be rooted in misogyny coupled with a cesspool of male sexual insecurity that treats women not as people unto themselves but as lodestones onto which that entire…

That’s a large part of it, I feel. And what makes up a lot of the root. Having grown up as a guy and spent time around some guys who really ate up the PUA nonsense (out of what seemed to be pure insecurity), the combination of a culture steeped in a lot of ambient misogyny coupled with their own feelings of…

I get you here, full stop. All the above about Hollywood as a whole treating black actors and black narratives as important only when they involve brutality is spot on. White folk are given agency and complexity in movies, black artists are forced into predefined roles for white audiences. It’s got to change, and fast.

Oh yeah, and there are plenty of guys who arrive relatively late to the sex table (or however you want to phrase that one) who don’t end up odious PUA types. But a hobbled experience relating to women as, y’know, people unto themselves, and processing that in a really toxic way, seems to be an overarching factor.

This might seem like ad hominem on the surface, but if you look at some of the most noisy, attention-obsessed PUA-MRA types, most of them were virgins well into their mid-20s if not later. As in years after most people start having some semblance of a sex life. That sort of frustrated self-loathing and fixated belief…

Cats working themselves into human civilization also allowed them to keep invasive rodents in check (or removed altogether), limiting the spread of disease and depletion of food storage. Not a bad trade-off in my book, and one early humans seemed to catch onto pretty quick.

Get Them Drunk and We Will Be Okay - The Abridged History of Ireland

As someone who has spent a lot of time in Boston, you probably also just offended some Irish massholes by omitting them.

Honestly wondering if that guy isn’t some sort of clever anti-Trump troll. “I love Donald, but it’s getting a little boring. It’s getting a little boring” is the exact kind of understated, droll thing someone trying to successfully mock Trump would say. Righteous outrage or bitter sarcasm might only make that human…

This is, in a terrible way, not too surprising. Boys can be uniquely cruel and detached in a distinct sort of way from ages 13-16. A good friend of mine was gang-raped in middle school by perpetrators ranging in age from 13 to 15. I’m imagining with the added pressure of slightly older peers (as seemed to be the case…

That’s a weird/dangerous road for Trump of all people to go down. If I recall correctly, Trump’s second wife accused him of a brutal rape. I’m pretty sure there was a legal affidavit which detailed that he attacked her, tore out clumps of her hair, and then raped her as she wept. It somehow manages to make ol’ Bill…

Which is amazing, because women make up about 30% of the fighters in Syria’s Kurdish military.