Gerrymandering also has a lot to do with it. The 2010 surge of the Tea Party, combined with the timing of the census, allowed them to redraw districts along ideological lines such that a sma passionate group of reactionaries has more representational weight than a large majority of moderates.

I always wondered how lon it takes to get out of the grey...

This is also not a tactic that is traditionally employed in the house. Reluctance, sure, and horse trading happens (“I’ll approve the stuff you ask for if you approve the things I ask for”) all the time, that is all part of the inelegant but somewhat-functional process. For a long time no one wanted to not pass a…

I would post a link to the Amy Scheumer bit about her being a politician under media scrutiny for allegedly sending pictures of her genitals to hunky interns, but as my account is provisional I did not want to complicate the screening process with a link.

I agree, it is kind of sad. Before the scandal broke, I would watch clips of him on the debate floor. It was nice to see a politician actually calling others on their bullshit, and arguing forcefully for causes we needed to support.

I am surprised that Brady is so into Trump. I thought he was not fond of leathery objects full of hot air.

So when Trump’s campaign for the White House inevitably fails, does that mean we get to call him a hateful loser?

That is frightening. Not the source of the blood itself, but the fact that someone would spend that much time and effort to make a painting of Trump’s face.

I confess, I once wore baggy pants for he better part of a year, requiring both belt and suspenders to keep them comfortably about my waist.

Going out to see it in IMAX 3D again with my father tonight.

The same National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey study the CDC did also mentions that the majority of male rape victims (93.3%) reported male perpetrators, compared to the near-total (98.1%) rate of male perpetrators that women reported. Regardless of the ratio of the sex of the victims (1/5 women and…

I am now wondering why you think that the Center for Disease Control would be studying violent crime, and where you got those numbers from.

Take the classic “Shrodinger’s Rapist” scenario, the posit that any man a woman meets she has to worry that he might at one point try to rape her. Because some men actually do, all of us have to shoulder the burden of suspicion. It is unfair, is it not?

Slang terms for genitals.

You might also want to note the feminism posits that the structural inequality disadvantages men to, albeit in different ways. As a man, I have plenty of self-interested reasons to support feminism.

If, with all those advantages, they still fail at life, then by their logic the fault has to lie with someone else. It is the same driving motivator you see behind a lot of both sexism and racism.

Being laughed at by women and by other men is just about the worst thing they can think happening to themselves.

Being an MRA should be considered a mental affliction and those suffering from it should be given a lot of mandatory therapy for the good of the public and themselves.

When there is any organization that purports to advocate for men’s issues, I find that a good litmus test is to ask oneself if they seem to see feminism as complimentary to their goals or adversarial to them. If the former, they they are probably decent and genuinely interested in issues that disproportionately affect…

The misogynistic asshats who post this kind of bullshit online are doing it mainly to get a rise. The threat unlikely to be carried out, but the terror of it being a possibility in people’s minds is the whole point of making it. They are suffering frustrated entitlement that makes them bitter. They do things like this…