I went to school for illustration and took some classes where we made little comics for children. The teacher straight out recommended drawing animals or creatures as protagonists, because they can be whatever race the child projects onto them (and can be genderless too.)

And I love how they call them "Occupy Wall Street tactics" like that's an obvious insult. Look, I don't care what you think about the Occupy Wall Street movement, which certainly has flaws, but the "tactics" they used are also known as, oh, I don't know...civil disobedience?

Speaking as a kale-eating, Onion-reading yankee from Chicago, I say God forbid everyone who lives in a state with shitty government be asked to take the blame for it.

They were all just wonderful.

Continuing the theme of "dumbass reactions to this filibuster from her fellow representatives," this comes from twitter:

What do you say to the idea that responding to criticisms with the PUA community with the defense that it's mostly good minimizes the damage that community does to both its members and the women that its members attack? And ignores that guides like The Game, for all they may contain some positive ideas within them,…

Side note: is anyone even slightly surprised that this dude who proudly and gleefully documented his affairs and no doubt thought himself sexually liberated was made to blush and swoon by a book that detailed female sexual pleasure?

She treated him with such respect, though, without backing down. Pretty badass.

"I urge everyone to go home and write their mamas a letter and thank them for being pro-life or else they wouldn't be here today!"

I turned it on at a moment where he actually sounded (briefly) like he might genuinely just be concerned with women's health. (Probably naive of me to think it possible.) Then the more I listened the more his blinders became obvious....I would not want him for my doctor.

You can lose whatever term you like...but if people are talking about Pick Up Artists and the community around them and you come in to defend them, I will assume you're talking about the Pick Up Artist community, regardless of what term you use, you know? If you're talking about a completely different group of people,…

Is he the same guy who's still talking now? The one who mentioned being a physician? (I just started watching)

Is there anyone specific who just has a sensible attitude towards self-help and romantic advice that refers to themselves as "Pick Up Artist"? I've only ever heard the term used to describe people like Mystery and Neill Strauss.

Really...I think that someone who's been through it and had a generally positive experience (i.e., doesn't have resentment towards the community) is in a good position to direct people who might enter the PUA community towards other things.

When I first heard about the PUA community, I was as disgusted as...well, as…

Eeeeeh...I dunno. I'm glad that it helped you, but you were the one skimming over the tricks and tips and more basically harmful aspects of it, which makes me suspect you were less likely to be drawin into that sort of thinking from the start. Someone who might be more drawn to that thinking, or someone just genuinely…

I hear ya, but a part of me is glad that his listeners are the kind of people who are drawn in by the PUA community and that his show is designed to lure them in. I'd rather they go to someone who believes consent is a yes, not the absence of a no, and that men and women aren't fundamentally that different than to…

Genuine question: Why are you confident you were passed over for minorities with fewer or equal qualifications?

I think that was why her GPA was mentioned—because even though it's a good GPA, it's not a mystery why a really competitive school wouldn't let her in. Especially if she didn't have good extracurriculars to puff it up.

It's a combination of massive entitlement and the subtle, racist undertone of "if there are more minorities here it can't be because they've earned it."

If this guy found out that toddlers masturbate, his head would probably explode.