To Whom It May Concern,

The notion that punching a person in the face for wearing Google Glass is a hate crime is misguided. Perhaps I'm wrong here, but doesn't the concept of "hate crime" center on an identity? As in racial, ethnic, sexual, or gender based? If slapping a douche for wearing video googles is a hate crime, wouldn't that line…

Personally, I think this list, while interesting, is completely trumped by the emerging fields of philosophy:

I definitely agree; Hoshi is as annoying as Andorian herpes, but she's definitely pretty. Same with T'Pol. But that's another problem with the show—the constant and overt perving on Hoshi and T'Pol. It gets pretty damn ridiculous after awhile, and I'm only in the middle of the second season!

I haven't gotten to the mirror universe episode yet, but I read about it while researching the human rights violation that is this show. I am looking forward to seeing it, though, as it seems to be the only Enterprise story arc not universally reviled.

I've been racing through Enterprise for the past few days (I think I'm on S2:E11 now), and because it ended so long ago I figured I'd just read about what happened to kill it off. Thus, I'm familiar with the controversy about the final episode, and I completely understand why it's annoying; it was, in fact, a shitty…

I'm with you on this, and I feel like people have failed to see your larger point. This practice, which has its merits, is the first point on a continuum toward large-scale social inequality; moreover, it's a signifier of the already visible stratification that exists within major metropolitan areas. Inequality and…

And I "rilly" do think you're a fucking idiot. I emphasized "male" to demonstrate the flaw in a specific reply as it pertained to Ms. Ryan's article. I never claimed that Ms. Ryan was a misogynist; I don't know her, and since I'm not a stupid twit like you, I won't make assertions regarding her personal beliefs.

Thank Christ; with all the people misreading me, I'm starting to wonder if I, in fact, cannot read—it's truly disconcerting.

I'm going to presume that because I responded with an implied position contrary to the opinion of the article, you assume I'm some sort of MRA Reddit nerd who's terribly butthurt over this whole thing. No doubt you're currently patting yourself on the back as a defender of the realm. But since you're clearly…

Holy shit, I think my head is going to explode. First, don't conflate gamers and nerds; the article said nerds and is filed under the category of "nerdery." Second, I never said a Goddamn thing about sexism in nerd OR gamer culture. Third, nowhere am I dismissive; in my reply I claimed that Ms. Pena was being…

Not to put words in Mr. Ironwood's mouth, but I think his point was that even if you do call out jock culture, they don't give a shit. I don't think he was directly stating that you don't call out jock culture.

If it makes you feel better to be dismissive of a legitimate rebuttal rather than engaging with the text as it was written, by all means continue to do so.

"...it seems there are still many, many men — especially in the sweaty boys' locker room of internet nerdery — who don't quite grasp the fact that women, like them, are actual human people with intelligence and worth."

There are so many irritating things about this particular neuromyth that I could not possibly list them all, but personally, I think the most irritating is that it perpetuates the classical distinction between reason and passion. And in addition to being factually fanciful, it bollocks up education because it…

True; I think that her generalization from her own experience is as problematic as the committee's lack of experience. Unfortunately, we can all be assured that this will not be discussed in the public arena with any subtlety or nuance, and it will definitely not receive the serious consideration that it deserves. …

Definitely—the armed forces need to conduct some rigorous and broad physical and psychological examinations on a large sample size. Although making hasty decisions based on limited information is pretty much de rigueur for the guys who give the military their marching orders, so I won't be surprised when this doesn't…

I agree that experience does not make you wholly qualified to implement policy—I think that if it were a panel of only front-line combat veterans the recommendations would lack the broader perspective that would be necessary to apply policy to everyone in service. I think the worst part is probably that they won't…

I think that just because people without relevant experience happen to advise the military on a variety of matters does not make her argument less valid; ideally, the people making decisions regarding combat forces would have some combat experience. I think the problem that most people have with male senators…

Two things seem pretty interesting and probably worth exploring: