Thanks. Next time I need a mixture of unsolicited pedantry and grammatical errors, I'll know who to call.

Dat is of course the meaning — guess I was struck that the other straws (if you will) seemed pretty trivial as well. Or perhaps the author is uncommonly... intense? It should be possible for one to make small talk w a CEOs wife, for example, w/out leaving an impression that leads her to hit up HR for a debrief. Or to…

Lord. When "the straw that broke the camel's back" involves office hula-hooping, you're dealing with one delicate little camel.

I think "professional Roma thieves" is the preferred nomenclature here.

Nothing says "That's not how you do a marriage!" like a string of Oprah gifs, eh?

I get why Disney insists every story have a protagonist — but why does Jez try to do this? Sometimes everyone in these little dramas sucks.... it's OK to write it that way.

We all get why "asshole" is a useful slur... but what makes a "dickhole" bad, exactly?

You can't actually refute the idea of a zero-sum game by using binary examples, as Desmond-Harris does. (This almost seems too obvious to point out, surely?)

Tagline: "Legends Aren't Born, They're Laid; Safely."

I think a more logical/parallel construction would be, "If she freely dates women, then she is unlikely to be a homophobe."

Not remotely "picking a fight" - the emphasis wasn't initially clear.

Study finds white women most likely to have home births. You say "Many women of color aren't familiar w/US-style hospital care..."

Wouldn't lack of familiarity with "over-hospitalized care" argue in favor of more home births among this cohort, not fewer?

It does seem quite relative, isn't it? In commentariat terms, a value like 2% is either vanishingly small (when it refers to false rape) or extremely substantial (when it refers to the percentage of US population which is gay/trans).

I'm entirely sure this is true. And I'm equally sure that the notion of "serious issues with self-worth..." leading to obsessive, tiresome rants is hardly confined to the MRA-sphere.

I think you're conflating newsstand sales w/overall circulation (the "10-15x" figure) there. SI still has a fairly huge subscriber base (c. 3 mill) which dwarfs newsstand sales.

The author's "mistake" was conceding cluelessness, whilst attempting to mock a well-respected publication specializing in the field.

With the added bonus (from squats) that the added size and shape is due to natural muscle tissue, not repurposed fat. Seems like a more viable solution all-round.

I hear ya. Those Atomic race plates are getting me kinda... riled up.

You miss the point, I fear. When a writer covering sports for a major women's blog goes (in effect) "omg... i had no idea what slalom even was haha!!", it kinda undercuts the notion that there's a big, serious audience out there for coverage of women's sports. You think SI looks at weak sauce like that and goes,…