OK, that kid does not know how to shoot a web to save his life. Seriously? We're pointing? At least try to web wrist-up, fingers out. Amateur hour.

It's a frequent slur directed towards transwomen. It suggests that she's not a full woman, but a fetishized freak.

Where's a linguist? I want to know if there's a real connection/similarity between Southern accents and British accents that my biased ear can't pick up!

That's a good point. I remember that Penelope Trunk got into some serious PR trouble when she offhandedly tweeted about having a miscarriage. She didn't see it as losing a child, she wasn't emotionally traumatized by the event, but (if I remember correctly) she ended up getting pulled onto a lot of morning news shows…

I know that Facebook has said that they can use your information and images in their promotional material—i.e.: a commercial for Facebook could show pictures you've uploaded.

OK, that promo for The Voice just made more way more excited for this group of judges than I had been. I'm still skeptical about Shakira being any kind of authority on singing, but fuck it, I love to watch Adam and Blake have fun.

I heard a report the other day that when there are reforms like this that ensure that most sexually active high schoolers are on birth control, condom use drops—leading to the potential for rising rates of STIs. Is that correct? The source I heard cited the recent proliferation of easy-access IUDs in parts of the UK.

Oh, I know it's not really, I just meant that it's so hard to imagine Abed having kids and a wife!

HA! This looks photoshopped, it's so ridiculous.

This was so phenomenal. Ugh. I want this workplace so badly.

Yeah, if this is end of days, I definitely didn't spend my last hours on earth in any kind of quality way.

Very well-said.

I guess what I'm imagining is he says, "I had a really crappy week. One of my coworkers that was a really good friend of mine got fired." I say, "Oh shit! What happened?" He explains what happened. "Wow. Is he thinking he's going to stay in [industry]?" "How is he doing?" or "Your boss sounds like..." and so on.

Yeah, I was a part of that community in Tulsa. But it's definitely very distinct from—and minuscule compared to—the old South/fraternity/bedlam football/church on Sundays crowd that is the majority in a lot of the area.

I'd absolutely start a discussion about potential harm posed by regional beliefs that engaging in sexual behavior is wrong—in the same way that I'm trying to start one now about the potential harm posed by widespread beliefs that homosexuality is wrong.

I'm not justifying assault. I'm putting his actions in a potential kind of context—in the same way that a post about date rapes on a college campus would spawn a discussion of rape culture and widespread objectification of women. I don't think it's valueless to consider the root causes behind actions like these, if…

Very nicely done.

I don't even know that he feels guilt. But if any of this story I've concocted is correct, I feel sympathy for a human being in pain.

Why is it a bad thing to consider the larger context assaults take place in? Saying that men sometimes rape women because of a larger culture of objectifying and demeaning women doesn't excuse the rape—it just helps draw attention to the underlying causes. Assuming any of this story is correct, it can be difficult to…

So I know nothing of this case beyond what's discussed here. But as someone who's spent a few years in Oklahoma, I immediately got the sense that the narrative of this went like: