Well actually, there have been many cultures around the world with extremely low instances of rape. Lots of them tend/tended to have very egalitarian views of gender or non-binary gender systems, though, as well as an emphasis on small, tight-knit communities. It's probably impossible to completely, 100% eliminate…

I'm in my twenties, and I really don't think that my generation drinks any more than yours did. I've only been crazy drunk once, and that was on accident when I was an idiot freshman and didn't realize that a shot of vodka does not equal half a glass of vodka (I came from a very sheltered family). I think that people…

Yes, but it involves educating people more on healthy drinking practices and on noticing the behavior of dangerous people rather than banning alcohol. The problem with these bans is that they seem to lay the blame for sexual assault on people drinking and not on their own permissive culture/the actual behavior of…

I disagree that predators will always be predators. I think moves like this ban are an attempt to hide the real problem and to not do the tough work of changing college culture. We know that frat culture encourages sexual assault. We know that pervasive misogyny encourages sexual assault. We also know that sexual…

Yes, it's banned on most. The #1 party school (or maybe #2 now), the University of Iowa, has a total ban on all alcohol regardless of age. You can see how well that works out.

I would disagree with your use of "normally" here. Alcohol does not make people do things that they are not naturally inclined to do. It may make it easier for people to do things that they would normally stop themselves from doing, but the impulse already exists. In most rape cases involving alcohol, the perpetrator…

As a gay woman, I'd love more gay villains. The reason people react negatively to many gay villains is because it used to be that when you had a gay villain, they were written with the message that being gay made them more villainous and despicable. Nowadays we can have gay villains who are fully formed characters.

Actually, Butterburgers have (or at least originally had) a pat of butter in them.

I didn't say you were an older person, I was responding to your assertion that older people are confused by this sort of thing. You do realize this isn't news, right? It's a writing prompt, something Io9 has done for as long as I've been reading them. This is a science fiction and fantasy site, and sometimes…

If older folks don't understand what the phrase "concept art" (the category this post is tagged as) means, or what saying something is "from the mind of [an] artist" implies, then it's amazing they got on the internet at all.

Yes! The worst part is that our cafeteria works like Subway, so you can literally pick EXACTLY what you want in your pasta! I wasn't forcing him to eat green olives.

I don't think so. I sort of vaguely know the guy because he works in the building that the cafeteria is housed in, and though this was the first direct interaction I had with him, I know he must work in some sort of office job capacity (not that intellectually disabled people don't have office jobs, but the sort of…

Double post because wtf kinja.

Assholes are assholes and will always find a way to be so, I guess. I once had a guy tell me to pick the green olives out of his pasta (our olives are a sliced mix of green and black—not something you can really sift through) and threaten to have me fired when I pointed out that it was the lunch rush, there were 30…

I feel bad for the next customer actually, because I literally stood there and stared at the stacks of cups for a good two minutes while my mind did a hard reboot.

Oh god, I swear I had Coffee Latte's husband the other day. Never in my life have I felt the stupidity ratio in a room rise so rapidly as when this guy opened his mouth.

My guess is that it's intended as a preemptive measure to protect against the possibility of conversion therapy being banned for minors, as it has been in other states, as Oklahoma doesn't have any sort of provisions against it right now. It could also be intended to make it easier to put your kid into conversion…

Clearly, this woman has never heard of Greece or Rome. Or Christianity, apparently (for its first few centuries, the Church performed same-sex marriages, although there's some debate about what the actual intention with these marriages was).

This seems to be a trend with sandwich shop type places. Everyone I know who's worked at one of these sorts of restaurants has absolutely hated it, no matter what chain.

Autism Speaks supports eradicating or "curing" autism, which many people with autism find offensive since it gets close to saying "autistic people shouldn't exist." They've also produced numerous PR materials that treat autistic people like burdens and promote the idea that autistic people can't have productive, happy…