Yes! This is criminal.

Nobody is asking you to be accountable for other people’s actions. We ARE asking you to be accountable for your own actions, and for the ways in which—intentionally or unintentionally, consciously or unconsciously, in large or small ways—you help create and reinforce a culture in which the exploitation of women is…

It’s more along the lines of: “these dudes are WEAK AND HARMLESS NERDS, which means that their rank misogyny is not only OKAY, it’s downright hilarious and adorable!” It’s just insulting for everyone involved—women, men, nerds, the socially-awkward ...

It really is:

Yep, too much moon.

Well, sort of.

This idea is a basically a major plot in Neal Stephenson’s near-future end-of-humanity sci-fi novel Seveneves, and it’s freaking me out.

I think it’s worth taking this seriously. Our culture has an incredibly fucked-up relationship to food—one aspect of that is how we (especially women) are taught to treat food like some kind of naughty indulgence that we have to “earn” or “work off.” Like, it’s not all that unusual to hear people say “oh, I’m going to…

A food label is a place where a reasonable person would expect to find the kind of information contained there. Google maps is not something where a reasonable person would expect to be randomly presented with information about how they can burn off the caloric value of a cupcake, and having that information there is…

I think that one is actually a riff on an urban legend, if that makes you feel any better ...

I really wish that you could hide/collapse threads here like you can on Reddit. Makes it a million times easier to keep track of what you’ve read in really long comment sections like these.

Jesus christ.

You have to be racked with some pretty insecure delusions to assign that kind of personification to an inanimate web service.

This is a fantastic story.

This is the best and scariest story. Good lord.

My money’s on this guy: http://jonmcnaughton.com/ He might be the only portrait artist available who’s actually willing to do the deed.

Also, when you have a static shot like this (the background image is constant), it’s not all that hard to just erase a person in the shot frame-by-frame.

But that’s a distinction that’s way beyond the kind of people who make ____-stan jokes.

Yes yes yes! The most wonderful time of the year.