Sure, I'll agree with that. It's not the same as rape victim blaming. Wasn't really meaning to say it was.

But I'm not a fan of your conditional sympathy. We readily shed tears about women being forced by social pressure to hurt themselves with eating disorders, but when a man is forced by social pressure to endure…

Ok, sorry, I'll put it less passive-aggressively. I've never fallen for this logic, but in frats, there's a lot of social pressure. You get the screwed up sense that this is behavior is normal and should be accepted by you, and if you don't go along with this, you'll wash out of the frat, and then nobody will want…

This is actually a pretty awesome idea. Introduce the rest of the cast through Superman crossovers one after another.

"... and exotic." Oh Hollywood.

Seriously though that description also matches many depictions of Catwoman. And many other Bruce Wayne love interests... so it might be wishful thinking. I'm holding out for a proper Wonder Woman movie anyway.

I say this with some regret, because some of my dearest friends have been involved in frats, frats which seemed to be very nice and caring places.

BUT.

Frats on the whole are a social machine for perpetuating rape culture with one hand, and cyclic male-on-male violent abuse with the other. Pretty much every aspect of…

Yaaaaaay, victim blaming!

Basically the problem is that PoV-narrated stories (and the films adapted from them) have very few conversations where the protagonist isn't participating, so if the protagonist is a man, that's an automatic Bechdel failure.

This is why it's better test when taken in aggregate. A single story choosing to have a male…

Glad we have you keeping the gate on who can identify as a feminist, Corporal Completely-missed-the-point.

On 2:
Sociological consensus is that it's a little bit of all three, biological, sociological, and performative.

Most of our theories about this come from how and why bonobos do it though. (For bonobos it's also generally the female making the noises)

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2132530…

I like your point, but we probably all should get out of the habit of prison rape jokes.

Hey, you missed a more interesting point, which is not just that they can predict it really well, but how they do it.

That "high dispersion" means that your mutual friends don't know each other that well. And "lacking high dispersion" means your mutual friends do know each other well. Which is super weird. Once a…

I agree. Generally people (both its users and its detractors) expect it to do too much.

Too subtle dude... people actually say stuff like that.

Google translate is more than good enough if you're already conversational in the language and need some help. Their system is easily the best in the industry, and it's pretty much at theoretical limits of what we can accomplish with machine translation until we advance the science of Linguistics a great deal more. …

Also strawmen. Jezebel loves them some strawmen. Especially when provided by reddit.

This this!

Heyyo! Dude here weighing in with dude-opinions, so you can take it or leave it. I find that when I find someone physically sexy, it can be for all kinds of reasons I wouldn't have expected. So I've definitely been with ladies where I thought they had hot thigh-hip regions, and some of them had gaps, and some of…

Nor should you. I think there's a troubling undercurrent in conversations like these in which women who genuinely prefer PIV are implicitly shamed for not being "open" enough, or worse, are accused of perpetuating something or other, and then they feel like they don't have a "right" to be upset when their partner is…

Thanks for this. In this particular kind of prejudice, the racism/classism line gets hard to tease out. Bottom line is it's super privileged people mocking super unprivileged people because "they're so wacky."

The number 4 only has negative connotations in Japan if pronounced the Chinese way: "shi", because that sounds similar to the word for death. If you're pronouncing it as "fō" (i.e, "four"), it's not a big deal.