I'm getting so tired of the "Real men do X" thing. "Real men" hit women. "Real men" rape women. "Real men" make excuses for other real men hitting and raping women. "Real men" also (and overwhelmingly) don't hit women, don't rape women, and condemn men who do. They're all "real men." That is the damn problem. I don't…

There's nothing cowardly about hitting a woman. People misusing the word coward is so irritating to me. Can't they think of any other negative adjectives that are actually accurate?

I agree completely, if only for the shallow and egoic reason that I am bigger than that model is. When I think of "musclebound", I do not think "Abercromie and Fitch model".

I guess I'm just too utilitarian, but this seems odd to me. I get not wanting the people to "feel good about themselves", but the money is going to go towards some form of that no matter what. Why is it preferable that it go to private businesses rather than charities?

I'm not sure how much money was raised before the charity in question decided the the money back, but, I'm going to go out on a limb and say it probably wasn't very much—I'd wager that if they had collected six or even seven figures-worth of donations, they'd keep it; but when I last looked it hadn't even hit $10k.…

As someone who works for a pharmaceutical company, the FDA takes MANY years to approve ANYTHING. Some might call the FDA ridiculously over-cautious, others might call them hypervigilant, but they require a lot from manufacturers before they'll approve anything. We're talking about a process that can take more than a…

The women of the Supreme Court are really holding it down for Progressive Constitutional interpretation. More power to them. I met Sotomayor the other day; she is also awesome and brilliant.

I don't think he was trying to slut shame her. I think he was asking why she would do that, knowing how he felt about her, because it would give him hope, or he felt lead on by that. He was clearly vulnerable to her and cared about her a lot. If the roles were reversed I know I wouldn't want to feel like a notch on…

I would pay big money to see a movie with Octavia Spencer as an astronaut in space.

Actually, the odds do say something about the chances of the results of all the flips. As you increase the number of flips of a fair coin, the combined outcomes will converge on ideal results - fifty percent heads and fifty percent tails.

As a lawyer, I have to say that this is a lot of hubub about nothing. Save your outrage for when someone actually is found liable for texting someone that is driving, because I doubt it will ever happen. The way tort law works in the US, there is virtually no action that a court can say is per se not negligence…

*sigh*

"Flouride toxicity"

Today's marmosets are just lazy. They play too much X-Box. In my day, marmosets played outside more.

"We believe that Democrats should treat women with respect at all times."

I'm a hetero man working in a field not historically associated with women. I always do the dishes. If a woman cooks dinner for me, I do the dishes. If I serve dinner at my house, I do the dishes. I always do the dishes.

I'm a consistently left-wing voter, but I don't get the appeal of Hillary Clinton as a politician. This is probably going to get me roasted on a spit, but I was sick of hearing about the Clintons when Billy was still in office, and I don't understand how people can feel good about having just one break from Bushes and…

I agree. I think it's getting better, as more women are speaking out about their experiences. I think most of the men who do that aren't trying to be jerks, they just aren't respecting that women also have a sincere interest in muscle fitness. As they hear that women are feeling belittled by those sorts of…