Leno doesn't even do it as well as Steve Allen (though in Leno's defense, he has copped to stealing the bit).

Mine too! And look: they finally finished construction on Observatory Drive!

First, I'm curious, what definition of gender would be suitable here? The paper under discussion attempts to point to a biological difference between genders, so I'm not clear what criteria would be appropriate.

Wait, so she's supposed to be dressed as a homeless person and she's wearing an Indiana pack?

You're treating it as a one way street, when you should realize it in no way is - even in your view you must realize that men (and women) make up society and and society shapes who men (and women) are and how they see the world;, that's what being a social animal means. Are you also of the view that humanity is…

For some reason, when I read the lyrics I imagined a more up tempo country song, i.e. twangy-pop country. I'm a bit gob-smacked that hearing the song made it worse.

Your point is true as far as it goes. My quibble is that I do not believe that misogyny is innate but rather learned from society.

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Maybe he's just matured. Perhaps this spot is actually a meditation on how we all grow up, take on responsibilities (He not only has to pay the mortgage on that house, he has to pay for door/wall repair all the time), realize that materialism is not a path to satisfaction, embrace our limitations (no matter how hard…

Your argument seems a bit like saying because Europeans treated Native Americans so poorly it's INNATE for Europeans to hate Native Americans. I'm afraid I find that more than a little absurd.

I fully understand that women in power has been an exception to the rule, but that really doesn't touch on the point I was trying to make. The point is that women are treated as people when they hold a position of authority or equality; this is much the same for men. There are lots of reasons why the power dynamics…

I honestly think the phenomenon you are alluding to has more to do with power dynamics than gender dynamics. I think it is innately easy for the powerful to treat the less powerful as objects rather than equal beings. For the past 5000 years the majority of men have held power over the majority of women for a…

I'm a nuclear engineer, so I've had lots of discussions that make the inside of my skull itch - a little ignorance and a lot of confirmation bias pretty much paralyzes constructive discussion on any technical topic. Once those two things are in force it doesn't mater how good a communicator you are unless you can…

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When you've fixed your conclusion the credentials of the authority that support your conclusion doesn't matter, what matters is that they support your conclusion. I'm skeptical that amplifying the voices of people who vaccinate their kids will change anyone's mind. It's easy to ignore anyone as compromised or…

Wait, put down some of that baggage? Isn't that the entire point of wearing/displaying the battle flag of the Confederacy? What is honoring one's ancestors (that is the excuse de jure, is it not?) if not carrying baggage? And hey if your ancestors fought and died so someone else's ancestors could be held as…

The Summer of 99' I took a chunk of my summer job's paycheck to buy my own computer before I left for college - I was 18 years old.

The bit I find hilarious is women were given flowers because the Victorians were too uptight to express themselves like normal human beings throughout history, so they resorted to a complex non-verbal means of communication wherein different flowers corresponded to intentions and expressions. What we do today is…

This reminds me of when my sister and her ex from Charleston came to visit me in Madison. I don't know if you've ever been to Charleston, but you can't throw a rock without chipping a Civil War memorial; it got to the point I couldn't see them after a week, it was like a bad smell your brain completely filters out…

Come on people, she was in "For Your Eyes Only"!