They are like the Cicadas. A novelty you don’t see every day, so you gotta’ respect it. 

Wish there was a way to guest op these blog posts. There’s a lot to be mad about, but disparaging a study without actually reading or understanding it just creates confusion around academic inquiry for folks who don’t or can’t read scholarly articles and dissect the methodology and results... :-/

I think that’s right. You could absolutely explain the results in the paper as society punishing women for being heavier and men for being lighter, and that within heterosexual married couples, both husband and wife are more obsessed with the woman’s weight. It’s not a surprising result, but I think that the language…

The three young women in the lede photo are barely out of childhood it would seem. When not all glammed up for the camera or a fashion shoot it really underlines how very young these models are. And I guess, really, that’s a feature not a bug as they say.

As sure as grizzly bears like salmon streams, sexual predators will flock to modeling agencies, beauty pageants and similar workplaces; and child sexual predators will flock to youth groups, youth pastoring, and youth sports.

It really does feel like you’re trying to minimise the complex issues here and reduce everyone involved to unenlightened idiots fighting for nothing.

We agree, though that’s more or less how Jews were exiled from Palestine in the first place. It’s not like they all simply migrated away from their ancestral homeland. Many were forcibly removed by their own occupiers during multiple points in antiquity, and then later forcibly removed from the places they resettled.…

People have a real tendency to consolidate the entire history of the region down to soundbites. There have been so many forced displacements throughout even recent history that any attempt to simplify it to “This group kicked out that group” is pretty ridiculous, but you also aren’t allowed to say “It’s complicated.”

So would half of the Palestinians. I’m not sure how you can argue that the Israelis are worse in that regard. The actions of Isreal’s leadership are indefensible, so are Hamas’s actions. They have a history of using suicide bombers and specifically targeting civilians. They hit a school recently. Luckly, it had been…

First of all I agree that the people defending Isreal need to consider what life is like for the Palestinians. That said, Hamas’s stated goal is a full Palestinian state. They don’t want a 2 state solution and they don’t want to live in shared state with the Jewish people  I disagree with many of Isreal’s actions, but…

There is definitely a cynical voice in my head that suspects the timing of this violence coincides quite conveniently with the election cycle for leaders on both sides.  

Was it ever cool really?  I mean, Jesus Christ!

Oh yeah, I’m not saying that the private messaging was acceptable by any means (and I didn’t realize it was over such a long time holy SHIT)--I’m mostly thinking of how so many people (especially gamers and such) tended to frequent places like 4chan and such back then, how edgelord stuff was still pretty common on and…

I know you’re joking but fuck me the amount of increasingly unhinged conspiracies out there to justify how Depp can’t be an abuser or to lessen his actions (“she goaded him/it was mutual” when that was found false in the trial) are just disturbing, especially the amount of women who leap to defend him.

Child characters are almost always voiced by women because (most) adult men cannot produce the correct pitch to sound like a child.

Perhaps you’ve missed the massive reckoning the Simpsons has been going through for casting decisions they made 30 years ago?

Except that Chrissy would direct message Courtney Stodden, in private, and tell them to kill themself. That is not edgelord, troll humour for the masses. That is private, ghoulish behaviour. And she directed her insults to Stodden for a period of about eighteen months. That is persistent harassment toward an…

I find it wild that presumably* the reason Chrissy came after Courtney so hard is because Chrissy found it distasteful and offensive to her “feminist” sensibilities that Courtney rode a sexualized public persona** and juicy tabloid-ready marriage to fame...which is, ahem, EXTREMELY ironic considering Chrissy…

Chrissy was, is and forever will be attention seeking troll.

Oh no its real. And it NEEDS you to know the eggs are only $1.99