People also tend to say the opposite, that supporting the idealist candidate is a privileged stance because they don’t usually get much done due to full adherence of their ideals and rejection of anything short.

Yes thank you. I hear “everything Hillary Clinton put her fingers on is a mess,” in reference to Syria, Libya etc. Uh, well Clinton and Obama weren’t actually president of those countries, and the US doesn’t actually control the world. I have some concern that her instincts aren’t always quite right, but probably most…

Why is the movie, according to this post, considered to have lost money when it grossed 180 million and had a 150 million production budget? Is the rest spent in advertising and promotion?

“There is nothing at all in society that contribute to rape or makes rape easier - except the opinions of a random commentator on Jezebel! Her opinions also contribute to rape so I’m going to swear at her so I can feel important!” ~You

And I see how nicely you contribute to society by telling people to “fuck off” on the internet when you disagree with them. Guess what - I don’t agree with you, at all, and I’m not going to. And you used the words “rape by accident”, not me. I don’t think alcohol “makes men rape,” but I see there is no point in nuance…

yes this! “If we make [the Stanford rape] all about alcohol, we miss a lot. But if we cut alcohol out of the conversation entirely, we miss a lot, too. There is room, and brainpower, to talk about it all.”

After reading the 1000 posts on this thread I felt pretty stupid having responded to the original comment

Not everyone lives in a city, and even then in some cities, taking public transportation will add an hour or more each direction to your commute.

The college drinking environment is so bad. I am horrified with what we considered normal. As a sort of aside, I also think it’s kind of concerning that any attempts to warn women that alcohol (consumed by either party) increases your risk of sexual assault are considered so anti-feminist. I mean, it does so... It’s…

Yes. I know everyone’s gun shy because of the horrible history of victim blaming but heavy drinking put you in more danger for just about everything. Women *should* be able to drink/be passed out/walk around alone outside in the dark without getting harrassed/sexually assaulted/raped but that’s not how the world is.…

For alcoholism, yes definitely that makes sense. But in some groups in college everyone exhibits alcoholic behavior but they are not actually alcoholics. My friends were always very hard drinking when I was in my 20s but no one drinks like that anymore. To the original point of the post, banning hard liquor will keep…

This rule is a little weird but I imagine many people here have been part of a hard drinking alcohol culture and know it is really unhealthy. Being black-out drunk twice in a weekend is completely normalized at many schools. This almost definitely leads to more sexual assaults. While you can get assaulted anywhere,…

But it’s much easier and faster to get drunk off shots then some light beer in a keg at a frat. I don’t think it’s the best rule in existence, but there is some logic to it.

It was a disappointment to hear about. On a related but different topic, I know there has to be reporting out there on the burden of top executive salaries vs. middle and minimum wage earners within companies. Like, how much would it effect a company’s bottom line and/or minimum wage worker pay to reduce top salaries,…

I’ve done a lazy attempt to figure this out before but never got far. How much to the top say, 15 executives at a company make vs. the lower 25% or whatnot percent of workers. How much could they raise the pay of the worst paid by taking smaller salaries?

That guy turned out to probably be a fraud. His brother sued him, and he lost, but the details of the case were really shady, and it seemed like he did the paycheck thing solely for publicity. Here’s one link (didn’t reread article, but you can google the case)

I really want her to keep some of the money. Maybe she really is THAT generous but I feel like there is enormous pressure on her to give the money away.

well, that’s not what she said, and she compared it to race and in no measure are white kids , on the whole, disadvantaged as compared to black kids, so I think she’s mostly upset about Hillary not paying attention to men at every turn

It’s always bothered me to talk about a “rainbow” of people when people are just shades of browns and peaches, which aren’t even colors in an actual rainbow! So happy that Trump and his orange face is finally making that expression more scientifically accurate.

Time for the Oppression Olympics!