I had an incident like that in my neighborhood and it drives me nuts when people think that it’s fine because their dog is friendly.

You don’t invite Nazis to tea so they can wax rhapsodic about the final solution, you stab them in the neck.

Are you skeptical because you read the headlines of every science based article & assume that’s all there is to the research, or because you’ve deeply studied all the research on a subject? Be sure you are being skeptical of the right thing.

Why? Because a scientific study was used to prove a flawed analysis, study, and misguided conclusion. That’s what science does. No reason to be skeptical of science. Be skeptical of poorly thought out and researched studies.

That’s close but not quite it. Scientific inquiry is a way of weeding out what’s incorrect among our ideas of how things work. While scientific epistemology incorporates skepticism in its methodology, it doesn’t follow that one should be skeptical of “science” simply because coconut oil was briefly promoted as…

Science is fine, but few people are able to understand the original peer-reviewed publications, or put them into the greater context of the research in a given area.

You should not be skeptical of science. You should, however, be entirely skeptical of science-sounding commercial promotion that is based on incomplete research that is not from a legitimate university-affiliated source or published in any of the many scientific journals that have an International Serial Standard…

Right, you should be skeptical of science reporting, particularly any reporting that boils down to X is good or X is bad. As far as I know, about the only result in the last few decades of that type that people should pay any attention to is trans fats are terrible.

Science is perfectly fine, thanks. It’s the scientifically illiterate writers and “journalists” who parrot PR pieces or misinterpret (willfully or not) regurgitated abstracts to sell papers/magazines/views that are the real problem.

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I get the idea of that, but I don’t think it’s ok to criticize women for saying what they need to say to feel safe. The fact of the matter is that with a lot of shitty guys, they’re not going to take no for an answer unless you tell them some other man has laid claim to you, because at that point they’re not just…

“Mommy, how did you meet Daddy?” “Well, he stalked me after I didn’t respond to a message on a dating site and the rest is history!”

Honestly, I am too scared to be honest like that. You hear all of the time about women being attacked after rejecting a man; I’m not brave enough to risk that. I also worry about being followed to my car, which is less likely if he believes I am accompanied by a man. Is it bullshit? Absolutely. But so is risking my…

No. DO NOT DO THIS. Don’t tell creepy guys you have a boyfriend. Tell them this, “you need to get out of my space now.”. Tell them, “get the fuck away from me.”

It is truly maddening how much energy women have to put into cradling men’s egos. Instead of saying “no” when we are uncomfortable and risking an escalation to violence, we have to come up with clever excuses so he doesn’t interpret it as a reflection of himself. It’s the environment, not that you’re an asshole. It’s…

I was in HomeGoods the other day, shopping for cheap kitchen supplies. A man who appeared to be at least 20 years older than me approached me and made small talk (annoying, but I live in the MidWest so par for the course), then proceeded to follow me around the store as I awkwardly tried to ignore him without seeming…

I have had to hammer into fellow dudes’ heads before that consent can be withdrawn at any time and for any reason. Doesn’t matter if you think the reason is dumb, dude, if your partner says stop or otherwise indicates they no longer want to continue, YOU FREAKIN’ STOP.

Have you seen the rejection reactions just from dating sites? Jeezus man, that shit be crazy. God forbid a woman doesn’t respond quickly enough and then not in the right “tone” for their fragile ego? It’s scary shit, man.

Now wait a minute. Are these American Girl dolls still in there boxes or are they free roaming? If they’re still in the boxes, I’d bounce out. But if he had a Felicity and Kirsten doll, I’d just close the door to doll room and have myself a really good evening imaging all the adventures they could go on. Maybe…

It is truly maddening how much energy women have to put into cradling men’s egos. Instead of saying “no” when we are uncomfortable and risking an escalation to violence, we have to come up with clever excuses so he doesn’t interpret it as a reflection of himself. It’s the environment, not that you’re an asshole. It’s…