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@newmakcity: I can't tell if they're sexist for assuming men won't get it because HPV is super unlikely to give them cancer (just their partners! how nice), or if they just never took Marketing 101. Like, dude, your potential customer base is twice as big as your make it out to be! Helloooo, anyone home?

@vanityfacade: Most strains cause no symptoms in men. But, even worse, there's no FDA-approved test for HPV in men. So a man with a clean STD check could still have HPV, through no fault of the doctor's or his own.

@newmakcity: So, uh... my first thought was "Wow, awesome! When did this get approved?" Turns out... October 2009. Head, meet desk. So, yeah, why isn't this being advertised?!

@quagmire: "I hope most of what you write is hyperbolic, because I feel everything your daughter thinks becomes an existential crisis for you."

@egg cream: I love getting stoned to the bone after visiting my local drug salesperson and getting a radical stash of preemo anklelength ragweed.

And, of course, the male-related hashtag that's trending now is not called "rules for boys" but "rules for men."

@Scout: They could even keep the name "bake sale!"

@SheelaNaGig: They'll be fine once ABC's newest show airs: State Budget Revolution.

@Little Time Bomb: I feel like such a Negative Nancy every comment I make on this article, but I don't see this ever happening in the US. US discourse is always about the individual, and that concept is frequently abused to justify rampant inequality. In France (so I'm told) it's about the citizen. It's telling that

@IdaTarbell: Unfortunately, "people are greedy" works both ways. Where I grew up (rural area), every voter with school-aged children voted yes on the ballot initiatives to give more tax money to the schools. Once their youngest kid graduated, they always voted no. Fuckers.

@timothynakayama: From all these comments, it seems that schools in the United States just don't have enough funding to make food a priority. [Why?]

@IdaTarbell: The problem is that in most states, the majority of school budgets come from local property taxes. Low property values in an area mean poorly-funded schools. Poorly-funded schools mean anyone with children and the means to avoid living in the area will do so, further depressing property values. And so on.

I'm not sure if someone beat me to it, but I trimmed a Jesus Bale template for those of you who may be interested in some Photoshop Phun!

@Donovanesque: Yup. Attractive people are also less likely to be convicted of crimes by juries, likely to get less time if they are convicted, and likely to be awarded larger settlements in civil cases by judges.

@jfpbookworm: Well, you know what they say: IQ's in the eye of the beholder.

It's well-documented that attractiveness creates cognitive bias, leading the attractive to be treated better and the unattractive to be treated worse. Specifically the halo effect, where an observer sees one good trait and unconsciously assumes the rest of the person's traits are good.

@kerry: While I see what you're getting at, I don't think the ancient Greeks/Babylonians who devised astrology or the hack writers who pen horoscopes are developmental biologists. It doesn't substantiate even a fraction of astrology, it's just an amusing coincidence. That'd be like saying because the Iroquois thought

I would normally be very upset about such a brutal attack on my beliefs. But I read my horoscope, and it said someone would try to falsely challenge a belief of mine, so I guess this fits the bill.