Usage nerd pet peeve: a palimpsest, by definition, isn't and cannot be "new."

You make it sound like these people have some kind of disease.

I know, I got a little giddy when his replies started rolling in.

hahahaha, wow..."pathetic" just became a noun.

Third-wave feminism, starting in the 1980s is postmodernist denial of human nature and establishment of the totalitarian feminist police state.

Isn't there already a profession for this? You know, the oldest one?

Women are not a monolith. They are invested in their health to varying degrees. They have varying levels of education, varying concerns, and varying understanding of concepts. This doctor is not suggesting women are going to go hysterically cut off their breasts because they saw a celebrity do it. At all. He didn't…

As a writer and perfectionist I get what she's saying. She didn't want to be validated by a man, she just wanted validation in general. I feel like it's so easy to get caught up in your own neuroses that for someone—anyone at all—to say "This is good," is wonderful.

Perhaps because I'm a breast cancer patient (in remission, thankfully), I sometimes feel I'm overreacting to Jezebel's seriously dumbed-down and often manipulative coverage of breast health and breast cancer issues. Today's article is in a category of its own, however, in terms of willful blindness and…

Sometimes people need a little help. Sometimes people need to feel validated to get past our insecurities. It'd be nice if we could all do things on our own strength and willpower, but I don't think it's absolutely a bad thing to need someone else to tell you that something is okay.

It's pretty sickening to see them do this on purpose with such a clear disregard for women's health.

I'm going to join the chorus here: This is a complete misreading of an entirely legitimate concern. He is not "mansplaining" if he is a well-qualified doctor commenting on an issue that concerns public health and safety. He's just, you know, explaining. He's not saying that women will line up and have…

I wish Jez would hire a writer who is actually capable of tackling the science beat. It's funny because most of Anna's articles about science make it seem like she's just skimmed an article and done, like, a Google search on the issue before taking a position and pounding out an article about it where she's all, "THIS…

You're right: it's doesn't qualify as *mansplaining*. Jezebel is trying to put a spin on an article that could have easily been written by one of Dr. Welch's female medical colleagues and would have read very, very similarly.

It's a type of statistics. Imagine you have a test where if you have 100 people take it who are negative, 99 will correctly return negative and 1 will be a false positive. Seems like a pretty good rate, right? But, let's say the occurrence of someone being positive is 1 in 1000. If you have 1000 random people take the…

The issue of unnecessary screening and false positives is a major issue in medicine today, and not just with breast cancer screening. The majority of people seem to believe that screening results are either yes or no, with no grey zones. This is never the case. All screening carries some degree of risk for falsely…

Doctor with several degrees rationally discussing relevant medical issues =/= mansplaining

Definition of irony: A story slamming as "mansplainer" a doctor for suggesting that maybe everyone doesn't need to get an expensive, flawed test that might result in them wanting to get expensive, invasive surgery, interrupted by a link to an article entitled, "Women are Being Scared into Traumatic Breast Cancer…

An overly snarky take-down of issues that need to be looked at.

Well, that's not really accurate. A patent on a gene does not affect basic research; a pubmed search returns over 6000 papers on BRCA2. Since this is a naturally occurring sequence in the genome and not man-made, anyone can perform research on it. The issues that are being debated are the *applications* of the gene;…