I can appreciate things like irresistible compulsions and being out of control of oneself — but it seems rare that people’s absolute, first-ever indications that they need help are when they’re actively hurting someone else.

It’s almost as if addiction doesn’t make you do or say terrible things if you're not already a terrible person. 

“ If Candace Owens had a baby with Boyce Watkins and gave it up for adoption to Skip Bayless, Whitlock would eat that baby before it reached toddlerhood just to make sure it didn’t take his spot on the Caucasian cheerleading team.”

IDK I thought the “sweeping reform candidate with ACTUAL FUCKING STEP-BY-STEP PLANS” was a pretty great niche but what do I know

I don’t know who is giving her advice but I can’t imagine that they’d be interested in her actually getting the nomination; bragging about being an enthusiastic cog in the school to prison pipeline hopefully, isn’t something that’s going to get you votes in 2020.

Awesome! As a scientist, I wish more of us worked to influence policy. If you’re interested, there are a number of different groups that train people for political work. Even if you never run for office, the training can be very valuable as you’ll learn how to effectively lobby and raise money.

Hey FrostedFakes, we need more people like you. I wish you nothing but the most success in your field.

My experience in neuroendocrinology research groups has been that both males and females of otherwise identical cohorts are included at the outset of any large study. For experiments involving exogenous hormonal exposure (particularly estrogen, its precursers, and estrogen-like molecules), outcomes DO tend to be less…

Beyond biological studies there is also a glaring blind spot for research that addresses gender and socialization in many fields. Outside of feminist and critical scholars who are typically marginalized in academia very little work in my field (judicial politics) examines how things like evidence law were likely…

I’m writing my dissertation in musicology, and even here, you’d be amazed at how deeply gendered so much of the work is.

I have a PhD in psychology from a department with a strong cognition and neuroscience bent. I remember asking one of our seminar speakers - a semi-prominent neuroscientist - whether he had found or even considered gender or racial differences in a study he was presenting (which had clear, glaringly obvious potential…

This is so true. Many aspects of the scientific world are anything but unbiased and rational, and yes, that does include attitudes towards women and the work they do.

This kind of thing is super frustrating to me. I think a lot of it is a classical medical perspective problem: everything must be categorized, and things are either healthy/functional or unhealthy/dysfunctional. Women have different things and are therefore are dysfunctional, because the medical model does not…

See but this is to bind breasts, which is a cardinal sin. Men need to be able to look at breasts, otherwise what’s the point of breasts and the meat-scaffold they’re attached to?

This is the problem with so many middle-aged/older liberals right now. They all want so hard to be seen as reasonable, so they play right into the hands of the right who frame incredibly basic social justice stances as radical through misinformation and bad faith whataboutism. The whole point of discussing toxic…

I feel your pain, hairy brown sister. 

This is the nouveau riche version of notorious “legacy admissions” that the dimwitted offspring of wealthy families have depended upon forever (see Bush, George W., Trump, Allof’em, and Kushner, Jared). Spoiled brats and the parents who spoil them. I never want to hear another word about Affirmative Action for…

This development warms the cockles of my first-generation college student heart.

I’m shocked. You mean rich, white kids don’t earn their spots into Ivy League schools? I thought they were supposed to be filled with the best and brightest who pulled themselves up by their boot straps. Those schools aren’t bastions of meritocracy? Lol I love how people complain about affirmative action but don’t say…