Most of the girls fleeing to join ISIS are second generation immigrants who feel a disconnect to their parents culture but still so much distance and xenophobia from their peers. You won't see people who worked hard to leave a country romanticising the way their children often do. It's all struggle and melodrama in…

Listening to the phone conversation, I wondered that myself. I didn't take it that life in France was so horrible, though. The fact that she had to out right lie to her mother about the conditions she faced told me more that she was either abused, and not trying to worry her mother with the truth, or she was so…

My thoughts as well. Women aren't encouraged to think of attraction as solely physical, and there isn't a culture of female preference for 20 year old men/boys. If you asked better questions, my guess is that more women of all ages would report a *physical* preference for men in their 20s and that more men would…

Between the 20-something women study and 'visual creatures' thing, it seems like we're supposed to infer men are incapable of being intellectual stimulated by a woman or being turned on by emotional connections. I think if women were to be honest with themselves then yes, 20-something year old men in their physical…

Correct me if I'm wrong because all of my Michael Jordan knowledge comes from Space Jam but I feel that he is an infinitely classier man than Hulk Hogan anyway.

I think it makes as much sense as Christians who have pre-marital sex. That is also considered a sin and I have often heard it lumped with adultery (you might be sleeping with someone else's future spouse). People are able to accommodate all kinds of different interpretations and practices into their faith. There are…

does nobody else think that both stories seem off? Even if he is a douche why would he out of no where repeatedly attack a woman for no reason. Like I don't believe it was as saintly as he says and that elevator snap was all the proof I need of his douchedom. Where was everyone at the dance? Like why we're they not…

Maybe you're right. Maybe police usually treat unarmed non-white suspects with a modicum of level-headedness and we just see the exceptional cases because of our present technology. These incidents are still SO numerous, I can find no comfort in thinking they're the exception and not the rule.

This is one of those "man this really sucks" situations where there are valid points on both sides and (with the exception of the original police and the rioters/looters) everyone seems like they are trying to do the right thing.

If you need me, i'll be sitting on the fence.

I took it as a way to curb looting. It's a tough situation, and I think as long as the Ferguson PD isn't in charge, it's a good call.

I'll give my kids a last name when they fucking earn a last name.

I can see why distribution of household tasks and parenting might be more equitable with same sex partners, but I also think a major factor in why their kids do measurably better is the fact that same sex couples have to be proactive and have their shit together to become parents in general, while that is not…

Can't fight discrimination and stereotypes with more discrimination and more stereotypes. Now show me the money, Ethnic Danny Devito!

I guess I don't perceive the same kind of issue regarding feminism's focus on "one side of the equation." I'm a feminist, and I want equality for all genders. It's not acceptable to favor one gender to the exclusion of the other.

<Hand over mouth.> I can't believe he said this stuff, but I'm totally glad he did. Yes, you're right, objectification doesn't fix inequality. But wow. It helps. This girl. Truth is, it's easier to feel good about something if someone is actually on the sidelines cheering on and saying that you're beautiful (if not…

I err on the side of believing her as well, but this does not end with me needing to subject Woody Allen to excessive vitriol or to express outrage that he continues to live his life. People hate ambiguity and so feel the need to pick sides, to demonize one person and valorize the other. Neither of these is necessary.

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.