I've got the link to the article: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2944942

I didn't get it either, until I read a paper from a journal of American history that explained that historically gun ownership was not common for most of the US (particularly ownership of properly working guns) until after the Civil war, when a lot of men took home their guns (they weren't supposed to, but the war was…

I don't understand how you can seriously argue the described response is anything but social conditioning, with perhaps a oxytocin response to the breaking of taboo. There are a verity of societies across the world where women don't cover their breasts and the men aren't continuously gobsmacked. I can only imagine…

A couple of things-

He seems to reference someone else's food based euphemisms, which frankly confuses me. Kindergarten cop came out in 1990; even the most conservative churches find the Governator uncut catnip; argo even this audience should be well beyond euphemisms that lead to terrible analogies and laughably bad arguments.

I've also found it works to hold my head straight with my neck, hold my lower jaw closed with my hand, and try to open my jaw open pushing my chin into my hand, hold for 10 to 20 seconds. This opens the sinuses so they can drain.

My wife tells me potato starch works better than flour for the paste. She also says toilet paper works well. She has typically seen it used for carrots, where the spacing is rather important.

Here's the problem I have with the point you're supporting- The only difference between a condescending ass and a mansplaner is the latter is insecure so he only acts as a condescending ass to women because his patriarchal thinking gives him the cover to get away with being a condescending ass. Granted this is…

I think this definition is not only better because it lambasts a specific behavior that deserves all the abuse it gets, I think the broader definition actually diminishes the term because it is so broad.

Don't forget, WI was the home of Joe McCarthy and Bob La Follette.

I think you've really tied up something that has bothered me for a while - the dissonance between the double standard and the necessity of having a safe space.

It's also made it harder to get a conviction from a jury, as they expect attractive lab techs with catchy background music, wit to spare, and clear cut black and white conclusions absolutely proving who is guilty and who is innocent.

I'm disappointed you didn't trot out the bizarre that actually makes sense: meth.

Yeah, my response before seeing your post was going to be:

....yet another Palin turn on a reality TV show will put Sarah in the perfect position to declare war on the Kardashians.

As he said, "I aimed at the public’s heart and by accident hit its stomach."

There seems to be growing tension between the competing ideas that consenting adults should be able to engage in the commerce they want without outside interference vs. it's in everyone's best interest for society to ensure that the marketplace is safe for consumers.

The power of autotuning used for good, not evil.

Per urban dictionary's most popular definition:

I hope you didn't take my post as approval. I was fairly bitter about the election when I wrote that yesterday; I'm merely sour about it now.