Oh god, I thought everyone outside of the pickup artisty cesspools of the internet knew the alpha wolf thing wasn't even real in the WOLF context by now. Egads.

Nothing is ever 100% certain. Agreed.

I disagree pretty strongly here. Rape is a seriously underreported and underprosecuted crime, but if we take restroom scribblings as criminal evidence, it would be incredibly, incredibly easy for someone to abuse the system or implicate innocent people out of a desire for revenge.

I'm sure she respects their decision to one day wake up and realize that they're shriveled old crones, filled with regret at having wasted their most fertile years on some stupid job or something. Yes, I'm sure she believes it is their right to die alone and bitter, with only auditory hallucination of the pitter…

There isn't one. BMI is not a diagnostic tool. No doctor only looks at BMI and bases all patient care around that. People love to point to outliers like body builders and skinny fat people because it makes them feel better.

I don't think it's fair to blame obese Americans, because clearly the deck is stacked against them. But I do think that we should acknowledge their agency in their own situation. And I think we should acknowledge that there are non-food cultural factors that contribute to the problem.

Yeah, but the likelihood that eyeballing someone by "reasonable human definition" is more accurate than, say, DEXA scans, is dubious. Again, if anything, BMI tends to under-report obesity:

I can't keep ice cream in the house because portion control and ice cream do not coexist in my mental universe.

Hey, my critique isn't against you (or anyone else) personally. We all do the best we can with limited resources. My issue is with how this hashtag has been co-opted from its original purpose (for Nigerians to draw international attention to a national atrocity) to all these unhelpful side conversations about white…

Classic libertarian oversimplification.

Somehow I feel their idea of "more government" is not being pepper sprayed in the face by incompetent police officers. Said everyone, ever.

There's a video. On that video is nothing suggesting the officer grabbed her breast.

Yeah, screw these white people, having the audacity to use a stock photo like they do with literally dozens of other causes and campaigns!

I assumed it was a stock photo.

I have really only barely seen this campaign but it never occurred to me to think that it would be literally one of the missing girls. Clearly it was a professional shot rather than a family snapshot so it would be unlikely to be a photo the family just happened to have. And how would you decide which of almost 300…

That's a fair point, and it's not my intention to let people—or these companies—off as though those marketing tricks don't cause people real harm in the pursuit of bigger bottom lines. What I'm really trying to get across is that underhandedness implies there's something sneaky going on - these people operate in the…

I think it's pretty important to link things to the article which provides objective evidence for people to look at - instead of deliberately skewing the article towards the defense and expecting comments not to lash out at it.

If the evidence is clear-cut then you should believe in your audience to see that. If it…

It's kind of messed up but I was thinking she's lucky she's white/pale/fair skinned enough that the bruised showed up. She at least has the photo for whatever good it does her.

In some area, shelters and rescues can make you jump through a lot of hoops to adopt. My then-boyfrined-now-husband and I wanted to adopt a dog when we were in our early 20s, but were refused from the local rescues because we had not owned a dog on our own before. We ended up buying a chihuahua puppy from a good…