Like I said, some people prefer classes with certain right/wrong answers. Other people enjoy the discussion of less concrete topics. You don't enjoy those, so you have to demean anyone who does?

I was an English major. Firmly within the Humanities discipline. I didn't take ethnic or women's studies classes, except to study the literature of a specific region or culture or time. E.g. the Australian film & literature class I took while studying in London. There's a difference between having a major within the…

Well, I was paraphrasing what you said. Here are direct quotes that I can point to:

You could literally use this exact commercial as an attack ad against the governors that are all 'yay transvag. ultrasounds for everyone!'. Without changing anything, it would be a completely salient ad.

I don't necessarily agree with the article's statement about women's studies classes (never took any myself, so I wouldn't pass judgment on them), but the reason you're getting so much backlash is because you are saying 'humanities are worthless and if you need to study it in school then you are not as smart as us…

Some people glean meaning from the world by studying it's practical realities—these people tend toward things like science and math; disciplines with real right/wrong answers.

Yes, hate in someone's heart is always what prevents them from being violent or abusive.

I think that's pretty close to what it is. Her mom died 4 or 5 years ago, and she moved to California and got in a relationship with a complete loser...I think the religion thing gave her 2 big things she didn't have 1-a community of friends and 2-people who were emotionally supportive both in the formal preachy way…

I prefer Sunday mornings. More...ironic?

I think that the issue is that (many of) the same people who are gun rights activists see the Constitution as static and that it should not be amended, basically ever. I know people who think that our government should have stopped evolving as soon as the Bill of Rights was ratified. Never mind that the constitution…

My friend recently became very religious. I've known her since we were in middle school (we're both 32 now), but suddenly she's talking about how without religion there's nothing to stop people from killing each other. I guess she was committing a bunch of murders before now? And obviously, I am an atheist/heathen…

I hate to break it to you, but you're the one sounding irrational and hate-filled.

My boyfriend thinks all women with short hair look 100% worse than the same girl with long hair, even if the long hair looks shitty. He hates my haircut, but he keeps it to himself. The nearest to a compliment he can give me about it is 'as long as it makes you happy...'

I am white, and I only have my own experience to judge by. But I would guess that a lot of women of color have the same or worse reactions from men, particularly women from more gender traditional cultures than my particular upbringing. Of course, that's more about the culture than the ethnicity...

I got a pixie cut in January. To date, no man has liked it. Every one of my female friends really likes it, though, and says I'm 'brave' as if I ran into a burning building to save puppies.

Hmm. I'm a terrible English major then. I totally hated Beloved, never finished Faustus, and my favorite books are Harry Potter. I hate pretentious bullshit and will happily admit when a book is so highbrow as to be unreadable—because I actually think that's a flaw with the book, not a flaw with me.

Why do people join these things, I mean I'm honestly asking. I look at them and see Stepford, at best, and that cunt-punt girl at about average. Please, enlighten me on what benefit they have or why they exist? Why can't you just be friends with people and not have it be organized and have a 'pledge' process and…

I'm going to show this article to every man who ever says bullshit about women 'crying rape' when it didn't really happen. A lot of good guys I know have been fed this line somewhere during their lives, that they really need to watch out for the women who will do this to any guy.

Love love love it all. I want to go live in a world where I can wear these dresses to garden parties...

Good advice for all concerned!