I don’t know much about the BDSM world because it’s not my dish of ice cream but I do know this is a big deal in the BDSM community. I’m glad she saw it as an opportunity to educate the me’s of the world because I have learned something new.

I get that critical, nuanced thinking is hard for you (as evidenced by both of your posts), so I have to apologize for not being more specific: we should celebrate efforts to de-stigmatize being a rape victim, not de-stigmatize the act of rape of itself. I thought that was obvious, but here I am making assumptions…

Maybe she wears it for sex, maybe she wears it at parties or on a night out, maybe she does wear it to Kroger. I think you're ruffling feathers by calling it odd because you're getting awfully close to shaming territory on a post about her empowerment.

If this made her feel powerful and helped with her healing, then that’s awesome but I’m troubled by the idea that a dominatrix is inherently powerful (and that male submissives are inherently safe).

Isn’t making much of a statement if it’s kept private, though.

“Use whatever tools you have to help cope with assault, by all means, so long as I approve of those tools first and those tools don’t in any way attempt to de-stigmatize rape through open, public discourse.”

After reading the entire article, I get the impression he could (also) be severely depressed. Withdrawing from friends is one sign of that.

I will proofread the shit out of this article for pennies, seriously.

I feel like physicists often have a lot of incorrect assumptions about evolutionary biology. To a more extreme extent, I was talking to someone who works in science education of the general public, who said that at these evolution-education events, there are an alarming amount of physicists and engineers who are…

to be fair, those things are largely relatively rare disorders, not inherent/systemic “design” “failures”. if people with those disorders never reproduced, we wouldn’t go extinct.

the bottom line is that in a scientific sense, there is not actually any reason that your particular method of procreation has to be…

The episode of Cosmos where he talked about the origin of life was embarrassingly bad. It made me wonder if they had somehow reconstituted Velikovsky and had him write the episode.

I saw him speak in my hometown and was hoping for an in-depth talk, but it was actually very simple, surface stuff. But even that seemed hard for most of the audience to understand—hence their laughing nervously at stuff that wasn’t meant as a joke and fixating on his discussion of Pluto not being a planet without…

I hate him! He’s so smug and he ruins every movie with his need to butt in with his science shit. Did they really need to fix the night sky in Titanic? If Titanic needed to be fixed it would be so Rose would make room for Jack on that damn piece of wood, not because the stars in the sky weren’t right.

Except when you consider the number of women (and men) who find sex painful, it’s not just about being a biologist. It’s noticing what sex is like for people other than yourself. I wish someone had tweeted vaginismus/dyspareunia at him.

We went to see him speak, and he said more than one incorrect thing about evolution. Not young-earth creationist wrong, but some small details that- while they fit nicely to his overall thesis- were not entirely true. Seriously, if he wants to talk about biology, he doesn’t even need to hire someone to vet his shit,…

I’m less irritated that he was wrong and more so that he made the statement in the first place. He knows he’s not a biologist, why would he start making claims about something he knows he’s not particularly well-educated in? I am disappointed in him. He’s a smart guy he should know to spend thirty seconds on google…

That was my thought as well.
Dude needs to stay in his lane.

True, I don’t think people really think about the fact that you can be in the same field and not be an expert in a part of that field. Example: Ben Carson is a brilliant neurosurgeon, yet is obviously not an expert in psychology because he thinks men can turn gay in prison. Neurosurgeons and psychologists both are…

I’d much rather him pop up everywhere and be a celebrity for being an astrophysicist and you know, actually doing something with his life rather than seeing more coverage of the Kardashians.

He lost me when he had all those tweets about why Gravity was bad. It’s like, Neil, I know a lot of stuff happens in space movies that does not accurately depict how space works, but the amount of exposition you’d need to explain why things that work differently in space would make for a shitty movie. Which actually…