Exactly. There are certainly socially awkward nerds, but there's socially awkward everything, too. Whenever I meet someone who assumes scientifically-inclined = lacks social skills I just take pity on them for being educated on nothing but bad movies of the 80's and 90's.

You're talking out of your ass and thinking of that episode of "House." You know, where the character-of-the-week was biologically male and happened to be a runway model?

I don't think she meant it as in "I'm not the biggest fan of it being an available option" — I think it was more of the easiest way I think she could think to say something like "It's a painful and heart-rending option, and an awful experience"

No, no, I meant I got those exact same tips with the exact same wording from the Harvard safety office. I guess all the schools have the same form letter?

Wooooo, Harvard!

Why is it somehow worse to kill a baby cow than a full-grown steer? Veal is more environmentally-friendly than steak: You don't have to waste food supporting the animal through its lifetime — it's closer to eating eggs than any other "actual" meat product.

Seeing what other people think about it, and which opinions are most heavily endorsed can lead to "hive mind," yes. No one's denying that fact. However, sometimes when I'm ambivalent about a subject, don't know enough about it, or actually *want* to know what the popular opinion is I do value people "telling me what…

"they wasted a spot that someone who actually wanted a fucking job could have had"

That's an urban legend. Harlow's death had nothing to do with her hair dye.

Peroxide *is* a bleach. You mean chlorine bleach? Not in commercial products.

Ammonia (or any very alkaline substance) was, and often still is, used in all hair dyes to open the cuticle and make the hair more receptive to the actual coloring/bleaching agent, which was peroxide. Ammonia by itself won't do a damn thing to the color of your hair.

Back then, and often now as well, Peroxide.

You're probably going to be written off as a troll on this site (and, yes, some of the items are trollish) but you do have a good point. Both sides of the divide are a little nutso about things, occasionally...

I'm totally on board with that, as long as there were some legal guidelines and formal infrastructure set in place to accept or reject parental rights. For instance, a woman finds out she's pregnant, she goes to the father with some sort of easily obtainable contract (like a form housing lease you print online or…

You don't wash out someone's vagina to treat for hypothermia... The article is implying that the rapist did this.

This is terrible.

Just like you can't use a paparazzi shot of Britney Spears to endorse your product (even if you took the shot), you can't just take a random picture of someone and use it on a pillow that you sell. Although she did sign the consent forms, they'll likely be scrutinized, and how he presented them, and claimed to be…

Well, when you consider the fact that she has all of her teeth, has bathed recently, isn't repulsive... I feel like that's a pretty good standard for beauty, considering the times (er, "times," because it's not Earth) and relative sizes of the towns.

She wasn't a prostitute/escort! Why has no one pointed this out yet? She was running a scam on guys, counting on the fact that they'd be too embarrassed/worried about getting arrested to report anything. Why does Jezebel (and everyone else) still refer to her as "an escort"?

Pfffft, ruining our stereotypes about how all homosexuals are cool, gay, yuppie couples in awesome, tastefully-decorated brownstones expensive, recently-gentrified parts of the city? How dare you.