You were asking why the scientist (or maybe the article) was not making universal pronouncements. I was explaining why he was hedging.

Yeah, um, sorry, we are reading Jezebel. Almost every day I see article criticizing someone for hyperbole relating to birth control, gays, etc. When someone says "I think assault should be legal" I don't care if it is hyperbole because it is a stupid statement. [My hyperbole ->] I should be allowed to slap the crap…

Yeah, eating processed food is bad which is why I like to takes bites out of cows instead of buying beef. [/sarcasm]

I would go out to clubs sometimes in my younger days. I did not realize until years later how common this was. The women I was with never mentioned men groping them. I asked an old friend of mine after hearing two women talking about it. She was like "Yeah, all the time. You didn't know that?" [snickers at my naivite].

""I believe what the Bible says," Willie Robertson insisted, "

I am extremely bothered by this. A lot of state level crimes classified as "violent" do not have to have any violence associated with them (passed by posturing "tough on crime" politicians with collusion of prosecutors and police looking for easy convictions to pad their CV's). For example, in New York, it is a…

I know nothing about her, but I find the ad amusing. Very light on substance, but amusing.

Agreed. Most Americans live in districts at all levels where the primary is the real election. The general election only turns around if the ordained candidate is very weak (e.g., Christine O'Donnell) or badly screws up (e.g., Todd "Legitimate Rape" Aikn) or the challenger is an unusually strong candidate (e.g., how…

It is unfair to call it anecdote which implies he only saw it once or twice. These were examples of what he saw every year (as in over and over again). He had other examples of the most bizarre cases he ever saw.

What I wrote was "raped or otherwise sexually assaulted." The FBI has to compile data from all states who define crimes differently. I tried to find the reference, and now I am thinking it was the Bureau of Justice Statistics and not the FBI. However, these were not crime data (which are only reported crimes). These…

I got one of those lectures in college. A room in the dorm had been burglarized, so they brought in a couple of police officers to tell us about burglary prevention and then they gave us their lecture on "common trouble" students get into. The rape section... the behavior that was described was so incredibly stupid…

The last I read, the survey the FBI cited said males have a 1 in 17 lifetime chance of being raped or otherwise sexually assaulted.

Your link loads a huge amount of crap, grinds my computer almost to a halt, throws up a bunch of popup ads and when I finally get to the point I can see the text, redirects the browser to Forbes' subscription area. I read you could search this website for it, but with the information given here I got way too many hits…

Millions of individuals live in those states. One person can watch porn while his neighbor lambasts porn performers and is ready to send death threats to any porn star living in his community.

Our culture might consume lots of porn and disrespect porn stars. However, how many people are both consumers of porn and disrespecters of porn stars? I doubt there is much overlap. "Our culture" is in fact a collection of subcultures where any two have some common values but also important differences.

I was used to mice. I remember the first cannibal mom hamster. "Eleven? I thought this one had a litter of 13. I guess I am confused." The next day "Ten? No, I am sure there were eleven... hey, is that a paw in the bedding?" The mom and all her cute little 15-16 day old pups were sniffing my hand, acting all cute...…

Hey, I have bred hamsters and mice. You get a lot of motherfuckers, believe me. They don't care.

I breed research animals. Hamsters will eat pups, but at least they are not wasteful like mice. Hamsters will eat the whole pups (littermates will help if they are old enough) and finish before starting on the next one. However, mice will eat the brain and stomach and then move on to the next one. Sometimes, they just…

"this idea that women alone get mysteriously pissed for no discernible reason and that your first clue doesn't even show up until she's already mad and being cryptic"

"I think this is exacerbated by a teaching philosophy that many of my colleagues have that says that all opinions should be heard and respected"