Still the best.

Flick off or flip off? I’m in constant conflict with a buddy of mine over this.

Flick? Where are you from?

Flick or flip? Always a question I’ve had.

Serious question: is it flick off or flip off? I always thought it was the latter...

Easy for a volunteer to say.

It has been a great week for middle fingers on Deadspin. Keep it up. Both of them.

He’s in his 4th year playing football, so there are moments where he clearly doesn’t know the rules.

She’s not a successful woman in STEM - she got a PhD and then left the field.

I don’t think she’s gotten that much praise to be honest. Sure, some people fall for her shtick but when she’s not being a concern-trolling faux feminist, she’s espousing bullshit attachment parenting, anti-vaxxing and fundamentalist religion. She’s kind of a nutter.

If you’re a moralist, the way to demonstrate the superiority of your moral standard is through displays like this. It really only makes sense as her trying to assert the superiority of her actions/beliefs, which rightly struck most people as an insufferable behavior and concern trolling.

This is a really well-written response. I agree that much of her argument comes from her own insecurities regarding her level of physical attractiveness, though I would also argue that that, in and of itself, comes from a patriarchal, sexist system that ultimately values women based on a standard of “traditional…

“Instead, I’d wager that this was a thinly veiled attempt to feel vindicated for being rejected according to Hollywood’s ‘impossible standard of beauty.’”

You should read up on what he said to fattie Jill Scott when she was pregnant. Long story short, it’s about control and domination.

One of my first cases was a guy who raped an 80 year old woman. So I will just drop the mic right here and be on my way.

Thank you for the best analysis of this that I’ve read so far. Too bad that Bialik  probably won’t read it. It might provide her with a fucking clue.

Mayim has bugged me for years - I appreciate that she’s a successful woman in STEM, but she’s still super-overprivileged crunchy granola lady who comes off as being really judgey, particularly when it comes to Things Domestic, like raising kids. Like, I don’t even *want* kids, and her op-eds about co-sleeping and…