I was a late arrival to the XCom party. Just picked up the game on a whim about two weeks ago when I realized I had some leftover store credit at GameStop. One of the better purchases I've made in a while. Surprisingly addictive game that balances a repetitive game structure while also keeping things fresh. Even…

Better field - yes.

Cornbread?

Your point being that it's acceptable to you because you don't consider the loss of a season of high school or college athletics that severe? I just want to make sure I understand what you're saying.

Right, because that's the same as playing college basketball. Trolly troll.

+1. Exactly. Again, we're all on the same page as far as correcting a culture that makes it ok to cover up rape. But the way to go about that does NOT include being ok with knowingly punishing people who are not part of the criminal act. Whatever you think about feminism, violence against women, and crime in…

Right, because the entire team and coaching staff was responsible for that.

This is a terrible argument. First, yes, we hold people suspected of crimes for questioning. But there is a standard there that prevents cops from putting people into custody who have zero apparent connection to the actual crime. We're talking here about people who aren't suspected of the crime (e.g. the head coach…

Kinja.

Yeah, this is bullshit. It's ridiculous to say, "Either you support everyone being punished, or you think sports are more important than discouraging sexual assault." Stupid.

You missed the point. My point was to ask whether this "reasonable solution" was specific to assaulting a female, or whether it applied to any crime, because the author seems to suggest that this is a good approach generally.

Not saying it's the same as the justice system. I'm saying that a lot of the ideas of the justice system are good ones.

"Disparities aside, however, this case offers a reasonable model for a school's first response to assault allegations related to an athletic team: Suspend everyone and sort out the details after review."

Progressives do. Either toe the line, or stop using the feminist label.

Will anything short of dismantling the football program (which would never happen, I know) at a religiously-conservative, patriarchy-entrenched school be enough to disrupt the pattern of misogyny that oppresses women there on a perpetual basis? Also, do you like Alabama to cover?

I was confused by this passage: "We put Kyle Wiltjer through an individual workout the other day and he stayed in the max zone for 13 minutes of the 25-minute workout. Just so you know, that’s ridiculously good. But what that showed us is Kyle has the mental ability to be tough; he just chooses not to mix it up…

The A-Team, in its later, waning days, tried the same (desperate?) tactic as H5-0, letting viewers vote on a storyline outcome during an episode. I believe it was the issue of whether someone was actually Face's biological father. This was years before the internet (and Maury), of course. There was a 900 number you…

Ending the marginalization of the LGBT community is admirable, but it doesn't go far enough for me unless we also start marginalizing the religious community.

This is great, and I couldn't agree more. There should be no such thing as a "boy's toy" or a "girl's toy." In fact, I think having sex-specific nomenclature at all is a little offensive, and I think we'll move past those antiquated notions someday. I dream of a society when we don't even recognize gender at all. …

+1. If he acknowledges that "I am not, in any way shape or form, saying that violent video games had anything to do with this or any other tragedy,", then why would playing, e.g., a Super Mario Brothers game draw that connection?