I didn’t say anything about newsworthy anti-social outbursts (what are you referring to there, exactly?) but was talking about more mundane problems, like the symptoms I listed above. It’s not flashy, but studies in the last year indicated that playing youth football doubled and tripled the likelihood that a man would…

You’re exaggerating here to make your claim. Of the study smolkster76 cited above, how many of the 111 brains with CTE came from people exhibiting symptoms of “severe brain damage”? CTE increases depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, anger, problems with impulse control, etc. Do we not see millions of such cases…

Easy for you to say without the actual choice in front of you. Also easy for you to say from this side of brain damage. People on the other side know better, but it’s too late. Should we protect people like you from yourselves? Should we hope you learn some things are more important than money, before it’s too late,…

Guy above you thinks they do it for money, and that’s why it’s cool. You say they do it for love. To either position: so what? all things done for money and love are good things to do? That sounds dumb, right? Try another reason.

Yeah, he probably meant “empathy.” Anyone who likes watching other people be violently brutalized probably has low empathy? How about that?

Studies have shown that only your experience is valid, haven’t they?

Bless your heart, honey. Aren’t you precious. Have you talked to any real people about this rage?

It’s almost as if empathy were a bad thing, right? I mean, one person feeling bad after watching another person’s experience of pain: that’s what’s wrong with society, isn’t it?

Seriously, man. Do you feel this threatened everywhere? Or only on the internet?

Thus begins your long assault against the notion of conscience. Re-trace it yourself. It’s impressive.

Ha. Clever. Sure, let’s go with it. He’s your Jeeves. I would say the Jeeves to your Wooster, but it’s more like the Jeeves to your Bertie’s lacking-in-self-awareness narcissistic cousin.

Distraction to whom? His teammates and coaches from last year say he wasn’t a distraction. Who does he distract? You?

It seems you’re using “pantsed” to mean “took my own pants off and handed them to him,” and thus, yes, I agree with you.

It’s hard for me, as an American, or an American ignorant of Canadian legislature, to know what the drafting of such legislation means, in the context of the society. I know all kinds of crazy legislation gets drafted here, very little of which actually has a prayer of being made law.

Thanks for sharing that. While surely those studies have to be taken into account, just as surely other studies do too, wouldn’t you say? Especially studies of what’s happening “in the field,” or on the street, rather than in a lab. Like these, for instance:

Thank you, too. I have no doubt it feels like crying into your wine out of frustration. That’s what it felt like to me, too, and I wasn’t the one writing all of those responses, nor having my identity and experience negated—or attempted to be negated—which made the patience seem all the more poignant. Bizarro world is…

Are you male? Did you grow up playing with GI Joe or Barbie, with sports balls or with an Easy Bake Oven? Do you remember the day when your parents offered you each and let you choose?

First, research into demographics such as you are mentioning is not “scientific research.”

A personal history (at the risk of just being another one of these assholes with whom you’ve been patiently, patiently, so patiently holding court): All my schools were old and not very good. (Oh shit, not totally true: I was bussed to a different elementary school, for academic achievement (or rather high test…

Lost me at “lost me at gender stereotypes,” bro.