That's kind of the point. No one should need a pat on the head for meeting the minimum requirements for being a decent human being. That so many women feel the need to do just that in these environments is an indictment of the culture and kind of an insult to the guys who aren't being creepy assholes. A bit like…

I believe this exchange has achieved smug detente.

I hope that dog realizes it's committed a federal crime. An adorable (and if you're the postal employee, a bit of a terrifying) federal crime.

Did anyone make the Iron Man 3: Gundam Wing joke yet? No? Okay, well, I just did.

You don't sound crazy *at all.*

Your email to the RNC seems to have been misdelivered to the sub-sub-comments section of a somewhat profane ladyblog.

Your logic does not resemble our earth logic.

I brought a nice Riesling — can I sit with you?

It's so cussing meta, but I think s/he was serious?! Awesome, regardless. Just *kisses fingertips* perfect.

Perfect. Also, *siiiiigh*

Did you seriously just respond to my saying that people need to stop responding to criticisms by saying "the other guys do it" by saying THE OTHER GUYS DO IT?

It really is. Over the past few years, I've lots a lot of respect for a lot of people I've known for a long time.

What makes this work for them is that the people who agree with them will get mad on their behalf when journalists actually try to do their job. It's appalling but I've seen my family do it — get all mad at some interviewer for being mean by asking questions and then they turn around and are disgusted by the nebulous…

We're only supposed to listen to them in that moment — never look back! Don't think!

I know! Everywhere! It's like there's been some sudden influx of people who never learned how to argue past a 1st grade level and were never properly given their remedial internet beat-down and HERE WE ARE rubber and gluing each other to death.

I'm getting pretty tired of this "Don't talk about what we've actually said or done ever, you mean old meany!" tactic the GOP is taking. Along with what should be the embarrassingly kindergarten "I know you are but what am I?" responses to *EVERYTHING,* they should really be ashamed of themselves. Apparently the this…

Yep, and she co-narrates Dawkins's audiobooks with her hubs, too.

Well, Shia, maybe if you weren't so busy being Method-drunk on moonshine, you could have participated more with the rest of the cast.

Oh, God, that was what I immediately thought of — that is a devastating movie and so simple. We watched it in film class and then were dismissed which was unusual but the professor knew we wouldn't really be able to talk for awhile after that. Just the sheer... hubris of what they did. I'd heard and learned about the…