I think it might be more simple than that. Most cities aren't culturally smashed together in general. New York has been by far the largest exception I've lived in mainly because of the major mode of transportation and how compact the city is. In most others though, because you can find yourself easily and…

Interesting that despite these being a "random" sample, one is from New York, one was born in New York, one went to school in New York, and the other was from Dallas. Kinda funny the kerfuffle honestly.

I think the biggest obstacle to that is just that most start ups and the angel investors that fund them tend to walk in the same circles. They're as diverse as... well an insular group of ivy league exes and "made it rich quick" types you'd expect. Even when I've been around the ones I might call diverse, it's been…

I respect that. I want equality for all genders too which is why I identify as a feminist as well. But feminism as a movement has been attacking STEM as a feminist issue for a decade (as they should). Boys falling down in education has been an issue since 2001. Actually I think it was the 80's, but the national…

Also consider Rosanne Barr in how she actually responded to Lindy West (many articles ago in a completely different context and topic.) There's male privilege but there's also privilege from class and that often times is a larger direct influence on our lives. A lot of these guys perhaps went to schools that weren't…

In general, I assume politicians are not great parents. That's not a personal dig, rather they have all the work hassles of everyone else with the added bonus of constant campaigning, regular networking, and tight scheduling. That doesn't even get into the scrutiny children can come under by being part of a…

This. I'm not sure it's so much a just-world fallacy as Kimani posits so much as human beings, being a socially driven species, doesn't really have a way to reintegrate the socially outcast. There's no "social reintroduction" program we have if people develop issues in socialization due to school experience or…

Harpo is grumpy. America, why do you hate Harpo?

Well it's probably a good thing a diagnosis can't be made until then since frankly many disorders tend to look very mix and match. Add to that you have a mix of children attempting to test boundaries, learning at a quick rate (I've known a few children who turned out to not be poorly adjusted, they simply did not…

Yet you could argue the same about Dylan Farrow. There is an irrational belief at work here that we know some kind of truth and we should be dispensing justice. Just a cursory look through just about any of these articles and you will see people blithely dismissing facts, criticizing tone, and picking and choosing…

I'm not really arguing that safe spaces are bad, rather they can have the effect of insulating ones self from differing opinions often by choice, and yes often because the person does need to feel safe.

Maybe it happens when gay men get too comfortable in newly-discovered safe spaces

I tend to believe Sega was the company that accurately predicted the market reality of Microsoft and Sony entering the console wars. Nintendo's run has been impressive but it is also buoyed by the same thing that helped it survive Sega: devout fans that carried certain ideas into fad status. I don't think Nintendo…

Enjoyable, but I get the distinct impression this guy doesn't watch the Western Conference much except for the playoffs. At least considering how much of the filler is mildly annoyed EC goalies where you can pretty much see that every few nights in either Conference.

As a man, I feel it is my duty to watch this video, develop body issues, and look up the plastic surgery article from yesterday. More hits!

Except that story existed for a long time and only came to American screens as an import. If the public was clamoring for a "nice guy male protaganist" why wasn't it brought to the screen remade for American audiences? They certainly don't have an issue remaking everything else.

I think this is an odd case of both the response and defense are correct. Sara suggests that removing the context of the conversation from "joking" to "this is not funny" is good, and it's frequently what happens in bands when you have a serious chat. But at the same time, what the writer describes is pretty…

Much of the "Death of the JRPG" is just a bit of the fallout from the period when that was really all that was out there on the scene. I don't think they've died, but they'll never return to the period where SEGA would tell it's American employees, "you can do sports, but we've got this."