It is somewhat dispiriting that for all their criticism about restrictive gender norms a lot of Jezebel writers mock men who don't meet a masculine ideal.

What "league" is this?

As a man I am very careful about sparing the feelings of women I have rejected, which frankly is not something the women that have rejected me seem to put much effort in.

Neither myself nor any man I know considers rejection by itself "rude.". There are definitely rude ways to reject someone and a fair number of women tend to hit these methods. If the guy was polite in how he asked, you can be polite in how you respond, and its not really hard to do. Don't act blatantly offended that…

Its definitely a little confusing; different statutes allow for TPOs under different situations. One of them has the requirements you mentioned, but others don't.

My background you mean? Non-sports-playing anglo-celtic straight NYC native American...

You can also get a TPO for stalking in Georgia.

I am in my late 3o's, and have probably been naked in front of other men maybe 3 times in my life at the most. And I've never had a woman complain or even mention the absence of circumcision.

I have never even thought to defend it. I didn't know until this jezebel story that I apparently have not actually been receiving oral sex all these years. On one hand it's kind of sad, but on the other hand, I heartily approve of whatever else they're doing down there.

Argh, no, talking back, expressing even irritation, is exactly what they want. Trolls troll because they get a sense of power for causing an actual human being emotional distress with a minimum of effort (a few seconds typing). You cannot draw any sort of reasonable conclusion about sexism, about power, about…

As a man I have never, ever understood the appeal.

Yep, I was the fat kid. I was also usually also the tallest kid in class so the other boys weren't willing to say anything to my face, but I still felt like a pariah, and I'm still dealing with those issues, particularly in regards to dating and relationships. Yes, women are, in general, just as likely to reject…

Well that's the thing, I have never heard of a child prodigy who exponentially improved throughout life. Basically they develop fast in some area early on, but if you chart their improvement quantitatively through adulthood the slope isn't as steep as non-prodigies.

I think the theory is this kind of behavior is unconscious rather than conscious, which is why they designed the study the way they did. If they were trying to measure conscious decisionmaking they could have just asked the subjects.

Eh, Bialik at least went all in in the academia route going for a PhD. Though I still agree McKellar wins because attachmentparenting really annoys me.

I am in NYC right now, which is a bit far from Baltimore. Too bad, too, I never could resist a woman in an owl shirt.

Edit.

Yes, let's! Free tomorrow night?

Creepiness PSA about South Beach you should file away:

Agreed, the tone is very confrontational, including the first paragraph. OP makes it sound like she will have zero tolerance for any kind of human weakness in the men she dates, and honestly real confidence shouldn't come off this forced.