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.

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

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.

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.

Ooooooh. Right. Women.

"All but two of the "ten artists conservatives should blacklist" are women or people of color."
Sorry, but I feel like I'm taking crazy pills: ALL of these people are white (sometimes very VERY white), except for Psy (Korean) and Kanye West (Black). This seems like a whiter list than if you had taken a random slice of…

I could be wrong, but I thought it came out easier than it goes in? Still doesn't sound like the most comfortable thing in the world...

And really, if you're looking at the study from the perspective of "what do Diet Coke drinker's mouths look like?" you have a sample size of motherfucking one. ONE! UNO. How is that a study?
That's like calling anti-smoking ads with the lady with the hole in her throat a study.

If you think 10 pounds an inch is reasonable, you sound pretty dense to me.

That's exactly why I went by BMI. You're right, it's inaccurate, but it's not as crazy as you're making it out to be either. What you're essentially saying is "The BMI is crazy, so let's multiply it by 2.5 and use THAT as a rule"