What’s the end-game here? I love the study of languages, but 100 years from now are we hoping more people will have decided to learn the Shoshoni language just for fun? Are we going to force signage, menus, etc. to be printed in whatever local dialects are present? If there’s no utility for it, people won’t invest the…

To be fair this happens in real life ALL THE TIME. Goop is the easy target, but same goes for fad diets/workout systems, astrology, essential oils, ion bracelets, vitamin supplements, crystal healing, basically ANYTHING said by a celebrity... I’m not saying it’s all 100% pure bunk, but so much of it all is swallowed…

Isn’t that a lot like teaching abstinence-only sex education? You’re counting on the self-control of the people involved rather than taking steps to safe-guard against disaster. That’s how I look at this. Yeah, he probably won’t bone the first woman he’s alone with, or the 20th, but it’s a rule he set to avoid even…

I seriously want to frame that saying and hang it in my house somewhere. Kudos.

Oh. You were just so full of advice on how to raise children I assumed you had experience. But of course not everyone should have children. Your tone makes me think it’s a touchy subject, but I never said anything to that effect.

Don’t feel sorry for me. I’m in a wonderful marriage with a woman who is WAY out of my league, and kids who amaze me every day. I’m sorry my plans for how to raise my kids got you so upset, but calling me “limited” seems like a desperate attack to try to get the last word in.

Withholding sex before marriage can never guarantee that.

I think this is the most YouTube comment I’ve ever seen on any site that wasn’t YouTube.

I am SUPER liking this thing. Bare bones, function over form, hard edges, probably less than 50 cupholders. Seems like one of the first SUVs designed for men and only men.

PREACH! If a thing is wrong, it should be wrong regardless of the source OR the target.

I would have said this differently, but the guts of your comment are ones I can agree with.

I was always taught to watch out for bandwagon people with no real grit and a good vocabulary.

I think it’s a symptom of people who try too hard. They slather on a thick coating of feminist buzzwords and talking points, then when they think they’re past “the wall” their true self seeps out. Honestly I’d take someone flawed but genuine over someone with such a massive facade.

This is said so well I wish I could shout it from the rooftops. “We follow the same people on twitter!” somehow gets misconstrued as “He’s a super nice guy and a totally woke* (blugh) feminist, too!” I think it’s giving rise to a new, easier form of creeping. If you hit the right talking points you can get someone to…

“The solution is to just accept that all people are going to have internalized flaws & blind spots. It’s always going to be there. We just have to determine to what extent.”

Again, you’re taking one tiny thing he said and inferring that there are underlying issues when there’s no evidence to support it. His moral code is that he chooses not to be alone with women who aren’t his wife. How is that screwing anyone? “But he won’t be able to have dinner alone with women to offer them jobs!” Is…

It seems like there are plenty of other ways to tell if someone “doesn’t even want to touch you, or who hurts you, or doesn’t care about what you want” other than sleeping with them.

Yes, we’re also going to teach them what safe sex is because if they DO have sex we don’t want it to ruin their lives due to unwanted pregnancy, STDs, etc, but we’re going to teach them that we think it’s better to wait.

Well said. Duly noted. And thank you.

Sounds like you needed a rule.