I think you'd be fairly upset if your attorney showed up for opening arguments in leg warmers and a tank top, or if the military's dress uniforms were replaced with clown shoes and inflatable sumo costumes.

Suits and ties and comparable garb aren't useless. They're social signals. How they're worn, how well they're tailored, do the colors match, how expensive they are - all signal to the outside world things about you. It signals how well you read social cues, and how well off you are, and if you know not to wear a suit…

Better than the Eldritch knot. Cthulu has exacting standards.

So, utilitarian jumpsuits for everyone? No one gets to dress up, not even if they want to and think its fun? Thanks, Borg guy that wants us all to assimilate.

Who is this person? Is this another hash tag activist that I'm supposed to care about?

"But what really sets this band apart is that they've always looked forward, not backward." And always twirling, twirling, twirling

"I can't believe I have to smell this guy's farts and pretend not to. I'm a Senator for crissakes."

I'm not trolling. What I'm saying is supported by empirical data, and, more importantly, you probably agree with me. Men and women take home different amounts of money. But it's not because women get paid less to do the same work that men do. It's because - for a variety of factors - men and women do different amounts…

The studies that compare men and women performing like-work for like-hours find that the pay gap shrinks to within the statistical margin of error. There's the Department of Labor study cited in this thread, and this one from Stanford: http://www.stanford.edu/group/scspi/_m…

We don't really have a wage gap. Men and women make nearly the same hourly wage for the same jobs. Rather, we have an earnings gap, because men tend to disproportionately occupy higher paying jobs and work more hours at them. But when men and women work the same jobs for the same amount of hours, they tend to take…