Also, the underreporting of male rape and abuse is also a problem feminists are working to combat. The idea that men cannot be raped comes from the belief that men are all-powerful and in control of women, and so if a man says he was raped he's either lying or weak. That's bullshit, and a terrible tragedy. It's also a…

The problem here is that some things are acceptable to say to other people and some are not. "I am Catholic and do not agree with gay marriage" is a statement that, while it makes me grit my teeth, would be appropriate for a middle school paper about personal beliefs. A picture portraying gay people burning in hell…

I am interested in women being protected. Being protected includes a healthy awareness of people likely to harm them. As I said, not men are aggressors, and no one is saying that men are just genetically violent (if you look at my original post, I point out that women are not anymore inherently peaceful than men). But…

I give myself one hour a week to try and change the minds of internet trolls. Might as well try my hardest.

No, feminism did not turn women against men. Misogyny did.

Actually, he did not have an Asperger's diagnosis officially. That was misinformation.

Misogyny IS what is causing this rash of lethal violence against women. It's true that he was mentally ill, which probably contributed to his willingness to use violence. However, mental illness does not magically create violent misogyny. Most mentally ill people are not violent. Those that are usually don't terrorize…

No, I'm pretty sure that eviscerate is exactly the right verb here.

Well, if the drugs didn't affect you at all, then that's not really something you had to overcome. I smoked/smoke a fuckton of weed, but it isn't a problem in my life. If somebody who actually has an addiction that affects their life kicks the habit, then that is an accomplishment. We celebrate athletes and prom…

If you'd kicked the drugs, why not? That shows determination. So often society chooses to punish people for past mistakes, rather than praising them for doing the best the can to fix or overcome those mistakes. I'm not convinced that leads to a better world.

Of course getting pregnant has consequences. That was the entire fucking point of the spread, wasn't it?

Okay...but your point seems to be that their achievements, being the result of being "bad" teens who had sex, should not be acknowledged the same way other students' achievements are. In what way is that NOT erasing them from the record, especially since they probably won't be on clubs/dances/etc the way other…

Statistically speaking, the vast majority of teen pregnancies are unintentional. There are very few teenagers planning on having babies, and not having teenage parents in yearbooks isn't going to dissuade those people.

The yearbook is not celebrating the pregnancy, it's celebrating the immense achievement of these students who stay in school and are productive members of society despite huge odds. Do you think erasing teen parents from the record is going to dissuade others from becoming pregnant?

For the three-hundred-billionth-fucking time, TOLERANCE DOES NOT MEAN HAVING TO ACCEPT OTHERS' INTOLERANCE.

That's technically true, but the vast majority of food served at a sushi restaurant does contain raw fish or shellfish. If you want to avoid eating any of it, you really do have to ask ahead.

Maybe you've never seen it, but you probably only go out to eat once or twice a week for an hour at a time, right? Servers have to spend 4-12 hours a day dealing with other people's kids and their bullshit. Trust us when we say poorly trained kids are an issue.

Your perspective is boring. (As for my crazy story: Yesterday, a woman came in and tried to buy the industrial size tub of cottage cheese we use to stock the salad bar. When told we couldn't sell her that—we had no way to price it, after all—she started crying and told us this long story about how she had had a…

Your point seems to be basically, "Most times are normal, but some times are weird." Yes, we get that. The point of this series is to highlight the weird times.

3D printers have feeds for whatever material you are using, just like regular printers have feeds for whatever ink you're using. In most 3D printers, which use plastic, the plastic comes in large spools of different colors. The printer sucks in the plastic, heats it, and layers it in very thin sheets over and over…