MRA'ing really isn't my bag, but I know where the argument for this originally came from. When people were looking at issues of how society was oppressive to women, some came back and looked at how a lot of the little things influenced the status of men. Things like machismo and vixation on virility steered men…

Completely unrelated to anything, but as I was reading this tangent it reminded me of Hubbard's "Never explain - Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway."

Except they can't protect that image anymore. It's painfully obvious to everyone (not sure how it wasn't before...but people seem shocked) at this point how permissive the culture is. Sure teams cut players all the time for things like this. But do you honestly think anyone is going to be getting a slap on the…

Because you can either start doing it and be hypocritical or continue doing what they had been doing which was nothing and look like enablers of a bunch of man-children. That's harsher than I mean it to sound, but the day major sports teams start taking their medicine on this stuff, it's going to suck for fans…

Not sure why, but orientation seems to be tricky with the public and actors. I've seen people get annoyed when LGBT actors play straight roles and I've seen people get mad when straight people play LGBT roles. It may just be that people overly analyze when they know that's the situation and blame the actors for what…

They could maximize their current strategy that way, but not maximize their potential sales. The only way (and this might be valid but I doubt it) you could maximize your sales through targeting one racial demographic is if both groups are so polarized that there is zero overlap in which case you have to target the…

I guess my question is, what are are the flaws you're referring to? The game is so old now, other than the hats though I don't see people complaining and those weren't there originally.

To me, Oliver isn't really that different from Stewart or Colbert... he's just got an accent and stumbles over his lines more. I wish I liked him more, but when articles like this go up I just sort of wish we'd imported David Mitchell instead.

Absolutely. After all, if there's one thing history has proven it's that poverty and desperation is a veritable panacea in regards to civil rights and personal reflection.

Sorry, this is just a geographical nitpick, but the major metropolitan areas represent the center of the state or the Texas Triangle. So when you say the remote parts of Texas, you're really referring to areas where the nearest access is across the border which is actually a shorter trip. Then it just depends what…

Umm... arrest and/or criminal justice. Getting both just sounds like the guy sorta got screwed.

I made that last part up because I know kids love Pizza Hut from the commercials that ran before my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles home video cassette.

It's fair enough. It's sort of that really strange thing where you can look at a percentage and say "wow, that's really good." But then you look at the actual number that percentage represents and it's infuriating.

"Shoplifting is stupid, but almost everyone does it at some point" ... the numbers are 1 in 10. Hardly everybody and certainly not enough to say it's normalized.

There's an IO9 article on how the human brain has a tendency to twist facts into a narrative that confirms what they already want to believe. Especially in this case it has been apparent on both sides.

It's a moot point. The autopsy is going to reveal who is being truthful and who is lying because the stories diverge quite severely. None of it is actually irrelevant because in a trial, these things would come up. What the protesters/cops would like is largely irrelevant. The discovered facts don't much care…

In both cases the act of pushing into the car and the act of trying to break free are going to look extremely different because of how the hands are going to push, grab, or dig in. Couple that with what would probably be bruises on Brown and the officer. In addition, if Brown pushed his way into the car, there are…

My disagreement with you is I just am not that cynical with an independent autopsy and the justice department involved. One version of the story is going to get confirmed scientifically and will come down to what is and is not found on Brown's nails as well as the wounds themselves. And if people disagree with the…

It's not missing the point, it's just realizing there are a lot of points up in the air now. Just judging by the tenor of posts on Jez, the state may have legit concerns Wilson would remain alive long enough to stand trial. I wouldn't blame them at this point. Lack of transparency in an investigation also isn't…

I've sort of been waiting for people to notice that. People stopped talking about Brown as a person and started talking about him as a cause a long time ago. And it's not a shock that people bent on causing trouble have come out to play in Ferguson at this point.