I feel like if you’re going to give bear fighting advice in a comment thread, you should site a source. I mean, I want to believe you, but i also don’t want my tombstone to read “dumbass tried to fight a black bear after reading an internet comment.”

I was gonna make a snarky comment about how Trumpkins will try to tie this all to Hillary, but fuck it, I don’t have the energy. Gene Wilder is dead and everything sucks.

Each case of cunnilingus typically lasted about 50 seconds. The males then mounted the females for 10 to 20 seconds, and then went back to cunnilingus for 94 to 188 seconds.

So you can’t criticize unless you are actively being oppressed at the moment, can’t look out for others if you have succeeded and if you are being “oppressed” then shouldn’t you be looking for a job instead of whining. It is almost as if...

The venn diagram of fanbases for those games is a model of our solar system.

You have perfectly encapsulated my feelings on this. Subjecting her to this seems horrible and unfair. Making other women compete against a woman who is physically (it seems) more similar to men also seems unfair.

In the running world TONS of people were complaining about OP’s robot legs. How about all the people who don’t follow running outside of the olypmpics and who know nothing of the details of men or women’s 800 just listen to the experts(many who are women) instead of trying to change a sport you know nothin about.

I’ve disliked a lot of what I’ve read about Semenya, and this piece provides a good counter-weight, but Semenya’s circumstance really does trip over a lot of hidden faultlines in how we think about gender and how we think about sports.

This article is garbage though.

That paragraph about vaginal inspection is absolutely alarming and this article isn’t without merit, but I don’t think it’s unreasonable to disagree with the headline, which summarizes that “The Debate About Caster Semenya Isn’t About Fairness.”

Shhh. You’re acknowledging complexity and the possibility that the best solutions may be frustratingly imperfect. You’re ruining a perfectly good Hot Take!

This is a complicated and fraught topic, one that deserves a more thoughtful take than the one offered by Ms. Moskovitz. This is not about some cruel effort by men to define and control women’s bodies, as she glibly asserts. It’s about trying to create an environment where women have a chance to compete and succeed,…

If we are going to hold two separate events for men and women, then we have to have some distinct dividing line between who is “a man” and who is “a woman.” It may not be fair to everyone, but you do have to draw a line somewhere.

Muslim here. To clarify - in Islam, the hijab or niqab aren’t required - it’s only required for women (and men) to dress conservatively. The varying types of dress are contingent upon individual choice and culture.

This. Sure, it’s a step forward in the sense that countries that didn’t even include women in their Olympic selections now do so, even if it’s more because of IOC pressure than because they’ve actually had a change of heart. And it’s good that the IOC feels the message sent by having more women is important enough…

As a professional biologist who interacts with the leavings of your championed surface-dump animals (except cats of course) on a near-daily basis, I can say with confidence that it takes much more than a week to decompose, even when “everything is right with Nature”. This includes animals that eat nothing but meat or…

Actually there is a ton micro biota in the first few inches of soil. Your poo will decompose. That is why the usual recommendation is 6-8 inches. If you go too deep you do get out of the biologically active zone. The issue with surface shitting is that in high traffic areas it builds up pretty effing quick. I’ve been…

Yes.

Actually worms and bacteria in the soil takes the place of surface insects.

Open defecation by humans can bring about the spreading of communicable diseases through the open exposure of pathogens in the feces. I think that’s why it’s recommended to make a cathole, instead.