What exactly were you going to make a joke about?

What timing? An overseas tabloid tracked him down days after this shit hit the news. If Wahlberg paid him off, he would have included the whole "Here's my victim. He forgives me." in the pardon request.

Yeah, I am not digging the whole working-mothers-against-childless-working-women angle a lot of Jezebel pieces have been taking lately. I know that mothers of all kinds and working mothers especially feel under-appreciated and want to beat the drum of how awesome they are when a study like this comes out, but these…

Sorry Tracy, as best I can tell this is just one study. I think you kind of addressed it with all the caveats. But as someone in the social sciences, albeit different field, I can't take this too seriously yet. Esp. given all the caveats mentioned. For all the other non-science folks out there, I'm going to leave…

This is a pretty retarded reading of the study. This is why Jezebel shouldn't play with science. The basic idea is that parents of multiple children are more 'productive'? Wouldn't they have to be? Why is that a surprise? They have more motivation. You also buried the lede about females with young children…

I'm offended as a woman AND as a librarian.

"...the super-duper organized kind who would have multiple kids and be awesome at it, which he says is called "survivor bias." But I thinking working mothers are victims of bias no matter what they do."

Also, how much of a choice do you think children really are? Considering, you know, the need to propegate our species and all.

But using that rationale to say you're "not a feminist" is letting the loudest/worst/most extreme subsets WIN. It is GIVING THEM OWNERSHIP of a word and a movement that should simply mean "women should not ever be denied rights or limited power in social, professional, economic or political spheres solely because they…

People seem to keep forgetting East Asian women in this equation also - that's when I've seen a lot of insane racist shit spouted by (mostly white) men. Lots of "ching chang chong" and "nihao" and then gross gross gross things shouted at me and my friends.

I'm not saying you're necessarily wrong on point 2, but where are you getting your information about the backgrounds of the other (anonymous) women? In the Star article the original 4 are all described as "educated and employed" (some, it sounds like, within the media), and aside from most of them falling in their…

Nitpicking, but she's not white.

The Canadian Criminal Code considers any unwanted sexual touching to be sexual assault. Degrees of seriousness depend on use of weapon and/or force.

Is she one of the women pictured? Are we supposed to guess which?

Ugh, ugh, ugh. I'm not Canadian, so I haven't heard anything about the blind items or his rep among those on the Toronto music scene. I just know him because I'm an intense music fan who occasionally falls down black holes of no return when I type my favorite band names into YouTube on a Saturday night. He's actually…

While theoretically I agree with you, I also never, ever, overestimate the ability of wealthy white men and women to be completely oblivious to the contributions, value or even existence of underprivileged* women of color. - much less their appearance.

What amazes me the most is that even people who write things like "this is not racist, all south asian women look alike so of course he was confused" haven't noticed anything (usually really colourful) around Malala's head when they've seen her interviews or pictures. Are they so non-racist they can't se color,…

I'm also 5'4", which is why I am single.

"women are always taught that our bodies are private"

For everyone ragging on her supposed misuse of the word feminism, I think she meant feminism. My biggest feminist friends are all about marriage and babies because they actually equate feminism with marriage, babies AND having a career. If you do anything less than that there must be something wrong. We think women…