No see, the joke is that Republicans don’t believe women doctors exist.

Fun fact about Icelandic names: they’re based on a parent’s first name. So Thorsteinn Viglundsson’s dad is/was named Viglund. You could have 3 or 4 last names just in your immediate family.

“Women make 76 cents on the dollar” is a (simplified) statement of the effect, not an enumeration of the causes.

I agree that this law will not do much to directly address social biases. But the law incentivizes companies to investigate their hiring and promotion systems and make sure women and men are treated fairly despite social biases. It may indeed not close the pay gap on its own but I think you are underestimating its…

So you are saying if there’s a boys program there has to be a girl’s version to be fair?

It may be difficult to believe but people really do vote for reasons other than pure self-interest.

There exists a gap between girls and women involved in STEM fields and boys and men involved in STEM fields. Girls-only STEM programs exist to help close that gap. The existence of girls-only STEM programs addresses a need that exists without harming boys since there are other de-facto boys-only STEM programs.

This article specifically cites statistics that indicate most white people, at best, are OK with racism. That shouldn’t be dismissed. You have to know you have a problem before you can try to fix it, after all.

The purpose of this article is to say “the general trend of treating white millennials as more liberal than older whites is not backed by statistics; we should stop perpetuating that treatment because it give the false impression of progress where there is none”. It’s advocating for a more fact-based discussion of…

I think it’s important to separate the discussion of the painting from the painting itself, as it relates to combating racism vs appropriating black suffering. Say there was no backlash to the work at all. Would it generate much discussion beyond “how sad”? Would you or I or the other commenters here even be aware of…

I am somewhat suspicious of the artist’s goal with this painting. Supposedly this painting is related to the recently-publicized police killings of black people. How is that addressed by a highly-abstracted painting of Emmett Till which, as far as I can tell, does not even explicitly mention Till at all? If the…

Pitch: Idris Elba as Bond spends 2 hours punching/shooting/exploding thinly-veiled Republican surrogates.

You are conflating the anti-DAPl protests with anti-pipeline protests in general. Certainly there is overlap between arguments against DAPl and arguments against pipelines as a group (DAPl is a pipeline after all) but the primary arguments against DAPl specifically are that its route violates tribal sovereignty, that…

Mary tearing up when she talks about Nadiya winning is the best, most pure thing to ever come out of a reality show.

Are the Master Class episodes worth it? They’re coming to Netflix in April and I need my GBBO fix...

Sorry to “well actually” but Democrats have been the majority in Congress for about 63 of the last 100 years. You would think we would be further along on our Nefarious Liberal Agenda...

That weird butt-guy has nothing on Salad Fingers in the creepy department. Also, you might enjoy this analysis of the whole Salad Fingers series.

If anything, that just shows that his powers are arbitrary and changed to suit the writers’ needs in the moment. So the real answer to the question “does Wolverine have a foreskin?” is “well, do the writers need him to have one?”

Wolverine has recovered from being torn in half and, yes, having his head removed.

In the comics Wolverine recovers from being torn in half, having his head removed, and having his atoms scattered by atomic blast (separate incidents). He most definitely can regenerate limbs.