I knew a guy who worked in swan population management. Swans can be really malicious, and their wings are strong enough to break the nose and/or glasses of an adult multiple feet away upon unfolding. And they'll use those wings, sometimes even running up and hitting somone who wasn't a threat.

No, I believe in a set of standards that's flexible to individual. And the military agrees with me. So, pipe down.

So: believing in equality is babbling, and thinking you'd have to be a sociopath to go carpet bomb villages full of non-combatants is crazy bullshit. (What passes for) The mind of a military man is fascinating.

I'm sure I should be very grateful to you for killing all those civilians in Iraq. I bet they were coming for me, personally, next. All I care about about this issue is that male and female sociopaths have the same ability to throw their lives away in meaningless foreign wars. You think that men should have some…

OK, so: Women should be required to pass the same standards as men. But the fact that they aren't doesn't mean that you think unqualified women are getting into the military. You're just making a big stink about the standards because ... reasons.

No, you're saying that women who are in the military don't deserve to be there, and only got in because the standards were lax. That's bullshit, and that's bile.

Your opinion does matter, because you're the one out there spewing bile against military women. People put stock in your opinion as a military person, and if you're saying that standards are too lax on women, people will believe you. I'm not trying to tlak you into a trap; I'm just pointing out that the military's…

When I got knocked up, I could feel myself getting mommy-tracked. I had the good fortune to be able to begin transitioning to another job that valued me more. Not all women are so lucky. For God's sake: if you want to support teachers, or mothers, or women in positions that became low-wage due to their association…

I'm not hurting my own point: My point is standards should vary by age, sex, and build. Because the goal is to measure fitness. You think the standards should vary by age (for men, at least, you've not expressed an opinion on whether this should be true for women) and never by sex because reasons.

But you're cool with some men getting laxer standards. You think some men deserve a break, but no women do. Because equal ground.

No, they aren't different. The military standards exist because enlistees need a baseline level of fitness, not because you need exactly 40 push-ups worth of strength or the terrorists win. If a different set of standards indicates the same level of fitness, I see no problem. That's why standards should be different…

But you have no objection to the fact that an 18-21 male who do these same amount of pushups as a 22-26 male will recieve a different score.

So I take it that you're against older male enlistees being held to laxer physical standards than younger males, as well.

So?

You know what would really be helpful? Practical advice that people haven't thought of. These articles are always so completely vacuous because they're full of things people know. Every article on poverty on this website has focused on cutting expenses. You could play a "stop buying luxury coffees twice a day"…

Agreed. Completely tone deaf advice.

Frankly, lists like this always come off as sanctimonious, probably because they're written by people who have never experienced any degree of poverty for any length of time. Everything has costs and benefits. Yes, you could cut down on your data plan for your cell phone (though, for most people who I've known who…

I'm not really sure why this comment is addressed to me, but I 100% agree that more tansparency is better.

And I'm saying that whether the exact figure is exactly correct or not, there is a wage gap. Thelongdivision is clearly, however saying, that discrimination isn't real. So that is not all.

I didn't say that the GAO pointed the finger at discrimination, I didn't say that the GAO accounted for any one factor in particular. Just that, counter to your claim, the wage gap is larger than 7 cents.