I think final judgment depends on how you define your terms, i.e. how do you define an egalitarian society, and what constitutes evidence that opinions and biases are changing for better or worse? It's not hard to frame the debate either way.

This feels like an example of, you can't win for losing, but you apparently can lose for winning. It seems to me like behavior crosses into White Knighting about the time the actions go from the right ones to the wrong ones. You can't prosecute intention, and people should feel self satisfaction from making the…

It seems to me that when a word becomes impossible to define we shouldn't be surprised when people don't know if they fit the definition. Being a "man" is now like being "beautiful", a label that we use as if it were a known quantity, know it when we see it, hope it applies to us, but can't fully explain to anyone…

I think you're missing the point I was trying to make. When someone less accomplished is elevated above you because something about their situation makes their lesser accomplishments remarkable, it is natural to feel slighted, as if your greater accomplishments are unremarkable or illegitimate. That is the…

source fwiw: http://www.suicide.org/suicide-statistics.html

I think the contention is universities receiving government assistance are giving out aid or granting admissions in an unfair manner. While I think it makes sense for a university to aim to produce a diverse student body, and it does make sense to boost the students who have overcome great hardship to achieve their…

To paraphrase another, if you are an American you already carry the highest rank your nation can bestow - citizen - and no one in this nation outranks you.

From my re-reading of the double standard bit, it seems he's annoyed that she can decide the parameters of their friendship (she can't be more than friends) and he's not expected to slag her to his friends, but when he choses the parameters of their friendship (he can't handle being friends) it seems to feel justified…

In principle the debunker is right, if not for that fact that no one wants to handle tritium if they can help it, it would dirty an ideally neutron free source of nuclear power, and it would be rather costly to store the tritium while waiting for it to decay. Tritium is hydrogen, and hydrogen leaks out of everything,…

Today the demand, and therefore the price of He3 is incredibly high because of use in neutron detectors for DHS radiation portal monitors. It's (understandably) annoying to the cryogenics crowd who can't get He3 anymore. There are a few other fields besides that would utilize He3 if available.

There's also a fair amount of wanting to transmit over a large range without any good hills or super tall buildings to mount an antenna on.

Still doesn't compute - Wouldn't a "nice guy" (authentic or no) be more eager to please you, while a jackass (always authentic) be a less considerate partner?

Eh, I'm not so sure. What with the complexity of people and all, I wouldn't be surprised if a variety of factors are in play here, not the least of which is, rejection hurts. Wanting some space away from that is a completely reasonable reaction. Wanting to save his friend discomfort after their friendship changed…

While dbritt57 is an obv. tool, I do think you've misunderstood the disconnect here. To re-frame what he's saying in the terms you've used, dbritt57 has observed guys who don't practice "common courtesy" have much more success attracting the women they are attracted to. Now, whether that is because:

Oooh, that last part strikes me as a really interesting admission. Can you explain the appeal from a sexual perspective? I've always blown off claims similar to dbritt57's because I can understand the appeal for a self-destructive person being attracted to a creep (which isn't the sort of women I've ever wanted to…

I'm only vaguely aware said blogger, so I'm curious - what puts him into "scum of the earth" category?

Eye gouging does make it harder to find the shy girls though.

People are complicated, yo. We aren't particularly well geared to be rational about emotional topics; rather, emotions are one of the driving factors in acting irrationally.

I think you're closer to understanding than you think. If you're of a mind that physical and emotional intimacy are inexorably tied, you can't have one without the other.

To add to what was said below - I think that besides justifying the affair which is important for making sense of it, it also gives the wronged partner power, because if they can prevent it from happening again, all they have to do is be better.