More or less of an asshole than all the people who uncritically bought the story hook, line and sinker?

My take away from this is not that the women are being paid too little, but that the men are probably being paid too much.

Depends where you are. My understanding is that in some places it is actually illegal to forbid people from discussing their salaries although companies routinely pressure people to do just that.

I highly doubt that anybody makes a conscious decision to find children sexy, so maybe we can hold off on advocating violence against them for something they have no control over.

You can always tell someone isn’t really interested in thinking when their immediate reaction to an argument or point of view is to drop it in a descriptive box, in this case MRA, rather than addressing it as is.

The chances that there were any answers to be found at that site are nearly zero. And to suggest that those nonexistent answers are somehow priceless? Humanity will get along just fine without a few more dusty rocks to fabricate our “true stories” around.

I understand that and I feel bad for the archeologists. My point is that whatever insight there was to be gleaned from these ruins that is now lost would not have been earth shattering. It wouldn’t have cured cancer, prevented war or solved poverty.

It’s too bad but I’m going to come down on the side of, “so what?” They’re ruins. The impact of their being further damaged is, in practical terms, as close to zero as you can get.

It is extremely hard to create good villains, probably even more so than heroes. A good villain needs the right mix of evil and humanity to be compelling and they have to define the character by their existence.

Yeah, this is gross, but how different is it from the “look at what this dysfunctional person did” stuff that sites like Jezebel run regularly? What was it, two days ago that there was an article describing a, presumably not wealthy, woman who’d been in a domestic incident and offered to lick the arresting officer’s…

One is married to a professional guy with a college education, the other is married to a high school drop-out with no teeth.

My understanding is that a big name is worth a certain amount of money. What I want to know is, why?

The prediction rate is much lower than that. So much so that you are better off just choosing the home team rather than the “better” team if you want to make predictions. The skill element of the game that we can measure doesn’t pull ahead of the unexplained variance until around game 70 out of an 82 game season.

There were also black slave owners in the US, so any definition of “YALL” ought to include them as well.

That’s because Germany, like Canada, is one of those reasonable countries where the animals that can severely injure you look like they’re properly dangerous. They tend to to be big, furry and somewhat reasonable.

Not sure I’d be down with that. Snapping turtles are one of those animals right on the line between animals you catch and animals that catch you.

It could certainly be interpreted as a rape joke but, seeing as I didn’t immediately make the connection, I willing to say he should have probably just received a warning and issued an apology.

No offense Erin, but in the linked article you do the victims and the piece a disservice by attacking Young and Hoff Summers for their body of work. Their previous articles, whatever you may think of them, are immaterial to the facts of the case and the point you’re making.

I’d guess, besides the fact that they have more money, it’s because he has them in a bind. If he sues Sulkowicz it becomes a question of whether he raped her or not.

I understand that this is good advice, and I really didn’t like that growling, but I’m being a bit of a hypocrite. I grew up with big-ish dogs (German shepherds, a husky) and I used to play “rough” with them all the time. We’d run around and knock each other over and play catch me if you can. I’d even end up with…