Interesting. I wonder if it’s a population thing. The dating pool where I am is pretty small, so you can’t burn through your matches like that.

But could that be a perception problem? I mean...I get that the response rate on online dating sucks. It sucks for everybody. I probably get 1 response for every 5ish messages I send.

*pat pat*

I like how the only choices are “hey” or “INAPPROPRIATE INTIMACY AHOY.” Dudes need some moderation.

I wonder if there’s a bit of a sexual orientation divide here too. Like queer people try a bit harder or something. There’s not a very large queer dude population on OKC to compare with the straight dudes.

Then maybe...don’t message those ladies? I don’t message dudes who don’t have a bio. This may also be contributing to the gender differences in this study.

How can you not ignore them. I mean, how does one respond to “hey”?

Also, imo dudes put waaaay less effort into first messages. I have NEVER sent a “hey” message or gotten one from a woman, but I’ve gotten tons from dudes.

I don’t think that necessarily prevents much. Even if we assume that all the concealed carriers are stable, conscientious, good people, that doesn’t mean that their gun couldn’t be stolen or discharged by someone else in class. More guns also means more accidents, which is the #1 problem with guns. Even the most…

My understanding is that parts of the cervix are transplanted as well, and the whole array is really only connected at the vagina. So contractions and the expansion of the uterus aren’t really putting stress at the point of connection.

That makes no sense. You don’t induce empathy by making boys see girls as the competition (even equal competition). You induce empathy by raising boys to see girls as equally human and complex...which isn’t going to be solved by a science contest. Also, sexism is not just a problem with boys. Women also internalize…

But the problem is that girls CAN’T win when boys are involved! Not because their ideas aren’t just as good, but because gender bias puts them behind. We know that scientific papers with a woman’s name at the top are more likely to be reviewed negatively than the same paper with a gender-neutral or male name. We know…

Holy shit.

Um, the labia is not the point of FGM, the clitoris is.

I think men would have a lot more success on dating sites if they stopped being fucking creepy on them. You know why I stopped online dating? Because 90% of the messages I got from men either began with A) a derogatory comment about other women (“Boy, it’s nice to see a girl who reads!”) B) a comment about my…

You are misreading the quote. What that quote means is that, for women, being killed is an actual outcome they have to worry about when they break up with a man/reject a man’s advances, because it is just that common. Men do not have to worry about this, because it is very very rare for a man to be murdered by a woman…

Tech had this guy for what, 6 months? Whatever fucked him up isn’t on them. They are quite right to protect the rest of their student body from a child murderer.

There’s actually pretty good reasons to do this. Felonies take a long time to prosecute. Suspension means he is taken out of his classes without failing them (which is a totally reasonable protection for people who may be innocent). It also deactivates his ID and stops him from gaining access to campus buildings, also…

That’s not fair. The scarcity of nurses in school districts (especially in Michigan, which has a fucked up education system) has nothing to do with a lack of applicants. School districts literally only have the budget for the one nurse required by federal law. My relatively well-off, white-majority school district cut…

I’m also from Michigan. We used to have a nurse at every school, and over the course of my time there it went down to one per level...then one for the whole district. It was pretty weird (we also went down to one librarian). And we were in a “well-off” district.