It makes the whole Romeo & Juliet comment  that much more appalling 

I get molten metal in my ears every time I fire up some Manowar:

Weird time of year to add a Christmas map

I am pretty sure he went well and beyond what is professional or appropriate with Shiela E, Appolonia, Vanity, Wendy and Lisa etc and tried to micromanage not only their image and stage personas but every other aspect in their lives. I can only imagine some of these women felt very trapped in a lot of ways in a…

People can walk and chew gum at the same time.

Prince treated Sinead O’Connor violently.

it’s not like Prince is some saint either(he already has allegations), I wouldn’t rule it out just because she’s retracted a statement before after being threatened with massive legal costs.

Question: When should we listen to the World Health Organization and when shouldn’t we? 

I think it’s more that her actual mental health problems were being ignored while people focused on manufactured drama, like ripping the pope. Also, writers like irony, and there’s a lot of irony in the fact that catholics pilloried O’Connor while ignoring the very real abuse she was alluding to.

Everyone was mad at her for calling out the catholic church and then it turned out she was right. Don’t think any other problems she has negates that in the slightest

Writing an entire blog post just to prove to us all that you don’t understand a study you didn’t bother reading is certainly... a choice.

“Now I will not even pretend to have read this entire study, as I only have an hour to write this blog”

“It’s incredibly unclear what the purpose of this research even is”

the author of the post proudly declared they didn’t even read the study. This website just exists to make people feel bad about themselves.

Given that the title “Economic Working Paper... Is Exactly As Bad As You’d Think” is over an article written by someone that did not read the paper under discussion, you’d think there’d be a bit more sympathy for crafters of attention-grabbing headlines.

“And it turns out the very premise of this study is scientifically unsound, as it uses BMI as a means of measuring “fitness”

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... :-/

“According to the World Health Organization, obesity is one of the greatest public-health challenges of the 21st century. Body weight is also known to affect individuals’ self-esteem and interpersonal relationships, including romantic ones.”

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…

That sounds less like an example of what the paper was talking about, and more like some guy who’s really depressed and should probably get some counseling and/or medication. I don’t know what his life story and relationship with his body and food is, but I can’t imagine a non-depressed mind going ‘I’m just trying to…