It might be useful to compare this to Deborah Tannen's finding that if women take up more than thirty percent of the conversation both men and women think she's dominating it. Children get aware of gender roles early. Boys learn that they're the ones that adults listen to. Of course they'd feel confident.

@that-aint-right: I wonder what the son's standards were, however. I mean, not hitting one's wives or daughters seems like a pretty low bar, but the guy was a mass murderer. Maybe he gets extra points for that just because of his job description.

@GREGORYABUTLER10031: Not all gunshot wounds are created equal, so simmer down. What caliber was it? From what distance did the shot come? What part of the leg? Bullet wounds can range from a scratch to a huge honkin' hole. An extremity wound that doesn't hit a big vein or an artery is a fairly easy wound to treat…

Being arrogant and assuming you know everything obviously is having a deleterious effect as well. Because just looking at actions without their motivations makes it easier to draw false equivalency which you used above. And then an argument from authority, which just makes this better and better. You'd think being…

I guess actually the newspaper or watching the news is too taxing for you, huh?

@OrangeGirl: More and more as I get older I realize how much society hates women. That girl was at a bar. She apparently flirted with Rapeisberger, but I can't remember for sure. One thing I do know is that the cop who was working his security detail tried to intimidate the victim and her family. She had to be very…

@darn: Don't you know? Only men are human beings.

@Hotpants McGee: Looks like he picked on some young, trusting girls. Talk about puppies and kittens and—-"Hey, what's your pet's name?"

@Sereene: And my new secret identity is born.

@ReggieDunlop: No, it's not common sense, no matter how much you mansplain all over this thread. You're confusing negligence with making a mistake and you seem to enjoy putting the fault on the victims. Negligence is not taking enough precautions, which doesn't apply here because these guy either hacked their…

@ReggieDunlop: No. We're not. And that 'Good' is patronizing.

@ScurvyMorgan: "Born on third and thinks s/he hit a triple," was famously used by Ann Richards, awesome governor of Texas, on George W. Bush at the Democratic National Convention. See also: "Poor George. Born with silver foot in his mouth."

@bonbons: Who do you think is voting for people like Scott Walker?

@I'm Ron Burgundy?: I like how you make a joke out of sexism. It's really cute.

Deborah Tannen has been documenting this for years. Men—-and sometimes women——feel that if women speak more than about 30% of the conversation, they're dominating it. It's not just movies, in other words. It's real life.

Let's see. Which side has been trying to gut unions, child labor laws, womens' rights, while packing the SCOTUS with the sort of judges who think that silly women are too stupid to know what to do with their bodies, while corporations deserve to bribe politicians all the way?

Well, it's good to know everybody here is 100% perfect all the time.

The Repubs can't have it both ways. They want to be little shits and not be called little shits. Screw that.

YOu know why the Republicans do shit shit? Because you just spent more time attacking this professor than going after them. And that's the response they're expecting. They're framing the debate and you're accepting it. Screw that. If they want to mock the very people whose humanity and rights they are determined to…

Yeah, they like to pull this shit and then demand total politeness in response. Screw that. They're trying to take away peoples' rights all across the country and we have to be polite about that?