But what about the rest of it then? You can't cherry pick which parts you want to believe in and at the same time try to tell me the bible is the inerrant word of god. And if the bible isn't the literal word of god, what is the standard for choosing which parts to believe and which parts not to believe? How do we know…

Really? Cause I'm pretty sure there's a whole bunch of stuff in there about how women are "lesser beings". Who should submit to their husbands, can be sold into slavery if need be, and, yes, be offered up to be raped when convenient a la Sodom and Gomorrah.

Yes, for some reason misogyny is really not that socially unacceptable.

Yes, yes, yes.

But there is nothing to suggest that he is not in control of his behaviour, or that he's mentally ill. You can't go around making that assumption since you aren't his doctor. The rapist example was just demonstrating how not all horrible people are mentally ill, as I explained. And why SHOULDN'T we hold him…

My point is that I don't see a point in simply assuming he is mentally ill and feeling sympathy for him because of that. NOT all anti-social behaviour is driven by mental illness, and rapists are a great example of that. After watching the video, I'm not sure what obvious signs of mental illness you saw and what would…

OK, but let's say this woman is seriously mentally ill. Do you really think exercise would have helped her that much? And the evidence for exercise helping to treat depression is mixed depending on the severity of the symptoms and the length of the illness I think. Or, maybe she's just a total jerk. Exercise won't…

Well, I'm not entirely sure what evidence there is that he is mentally ill. Is it not possible that he is just a horrible person? For instance, when I was in undergrad I remember writing a paper on the causes of rape (i.e., what factors influence rapists to rape). Hateful attitudes towards women seem to be a factor…

SCIENCE

Depression and eating disorders are more common in women, but addiction is usually more common in men. There isn't some "crazy" gene that is transmitted to the women in your family only, that makes no sense. And it's a pretty sweeping statement to say that you don't want to be a parent to one. I don't think it sends…

You have absolutely no way of knowing what your child will be like just based on their sex.

Changes in hormone levels at this age could also reveal sex differences in the prevalence of mental illness (women are more likely to become depressed, this difference is there probably due to sex hormones, which affect mood/brain). I don't exactly agree with the interpretations presented in this article.

Well, men are more likely to get heart attacks than women more generally. But yeah, it makes no sense to me why the concern trolling is directed at women only. Why does anyone care how healthy or unhealthy she is? They don't even know this woman.

Haha that's awfully sweet, but I have zero interest in becoming a doctor. However what I will say is that very often doctors, particularly GPs (who have very general knowledge about a bunch of things), can be quite arrogant and think they know more about the neuroscience of eating than PhDs who actually study it full…

She was the only half decent part of that awful tower heist movie.

I didn't misinterpret, I was agreeing with you

I agree. But it is so ignorant and simply untrue to say that fat women are fat because of some kind of moral failing or lack of discipline or willpower. I am a neuroendocrinologist and I just attended a conference with several talks discussing the etiology of obesity. It's fucking complicated. But how any particular…

Sounds about right to me.

Well I certainly don't know about fit, but I'm fairly thin and I really don't think it's any excuse to post comments like the ones I'm seeing over there. I wonder what it is about seeing an overweight woman that upsets and horrifies them so much? There is clearly something seriously wrong with those people.

Well, I guess I'm a sadistic monster then. Also, it takes two people to conceive a child. You don't want women having abortions? Don't have sex with them.