Calories burned varies by person so I don’t see how they could make this accurate without asking you at least your weight, it takes more force to move more weight (and only then it is approximate because people have different speeds, and different efficiencies). I eye my Fitbit with suspicion. It’s an okay guide but…

Don’t get me started on left wing anti-GMO bullcrap. Sure there are problems with GMOs (like cultivating monocultures and indenturing farmers to buy new seed every year), but the problem isn’t ‘it has DNA in it’ which is an actual line I’ve heard anti-GMO people use. You have DNA in you, you dumbass! /rant

Joe Jonas seems pretty vanilla (I know almost nothing about him, admittedly, but he doesn’t seem to come up as a person who does awful stupid things). Likewise Sophie Turner. Probably not a ‘hell no never again’ divorce on the cards, but more likely a ‘meh’ divorce. Or maybe they live happily ever after. I just don’t…

Yup. I was playing by myself in a field near my house (kids ran feral from a young age in the 70s), and a group of prepubescent boys rocked up, encircled me, and exposed themselves to me and tried to get me to do the same for them. I ran off as fast as I could and told nobody because it was weird and I didn’t know…

YMMV.

I thought the same. Also:

It’s amazing the cognitive disconnect, it really is.

I’ve had a lot of empathy for Larry Flynn since watching The People vs. Larry Flynt back when it came out. He produces vulgar material but I never got the impression he exploited anyone, and he really cares about free speech. The dude is not a pervy Hugh Hefner, getting a crypt next to Marilyn Monroe.

She is definitely not a Scientologist. (And I’m not sure a neuroscientist could reconcile that one).

Yeah I don’t think I’ve ever met a woman with whom I’ve had an in-depth conversation with who doesn’t have a sexual harassment, sexual assault, rape, or child molestation story. Usually they have more than one.

There’s Ivana’s rape story too (which she retracted, but I still believe it and that she was coerced to retract it).

Absolutely true that handsome, beautiful people can also be predators (though I am struggling to think of an example, maybe OJ in his prime? I’m lumping him in as a predator because of the way he treated his wife, like property), but when someone styles themselves in a weird, creepy way, that’s a red flag, i.e. Jimmy…

It’s not that he’s ugly (seems average IMO), but that he looks ‘rapey’. The facial expression, the weirdly tinted glasses, the awful goatee, the hair dyeing, the odd wardrobe are what set off the alarms for me. Alone each of those things are not particularly notable. Together they scream ‘AVOID’.

Eew.

I was sexually harassed by a group of pre-pubescent boys (who theoretically wouldn’t have any sexual interest in me) when I was a toddler so no, this is not confined to middle-aged men. To be specific they all exposed themselves to me and I escaped and ran home.

I have to go to the doctor every month to re-up my Crohn’s medication, which is a total hassle when you are a contractor and taking time out for doctor’s appointments means you lose income (I also need to go to the hospital regularly for blood tests). It makes sense medically because my liver function needs to be…

I hope you are joking in thinking that all abortions are surgical? If not, I am shocked. How is it that people don’t know this basic fact?

I honestly can’t see how that is career ending unless you don’t live in a city or your industry is so small everyone knows everyone else. If the accusation is false, you also have the option of defending yourself (i.e. sue for wrongful termination, slander, libel). You have recourse, and options. What you don’t have…

I had a several year period as a child where I was frightened of dolls. I played with Barbies because I thought they would murder me if I didn’t (and I slept with my quilt meticulously tucked in under my body with a breathing hole for my face, to fend off any unprotected attack). There was a ‘walking doll’ I had that…

I also work in advertising (I develop marketing software but have worked in a creative agency environment). It’s totally believable that this was passed by rounds and rounds of white males and not a single POC set of eyes saw it (or even female eyes). Diversity is a huge and broiling issue in the industry.