Heh, sorry. I should have assumed that you guys had considered all the options. Well, good luck!

Honestly, I suspect we'll find more variation within gender than between genders. But I guess all we can do is sit back while science evolves (or go do the science ourselves, but I've got my own science to fry, and it has nothing to do with gender or genetics.)

D'oh. The UC schools are (or at least were when I went to one several years ago) extremely highly ranked! That's unfortunate that she's stuck on the private = good idea. Med school is expensive everywhere so public v. private probably doesn't save you any money. Have you suggested that she finish up her BA/BS…

Yeah, those transfer agreements between CC's and the CSU/UC schools are great! A coworker from high school went to CC, worked her ass off, and got offered a full scholarship to UCLA for her remaining two years.

Can you comment some more about swimming and quick measurable results? I know I need to exercise more, but really hate running, don't bike in the winter, and a lot of other "don't like/hate/whine" stories about most other kinds of exercising. But with swimming, my hesitation is more like, "I don't know anything…

Uh... having or not having believably valid methodology?

Thank you! Seriously, how hard is it for people to realize that not everybody will have the same experiences exercising?

I was raised Catholic, and I notice when people are bad-mouthing it unnecessarily (e.g. conflating some of the ridiculous things that the hierarchy does with every lay Catholic on earth), and that is absolutely not what's going on here.

I'm all for it! Except for one thing: the "sign away their access to any treatment or procedure..." part. What if they're the only hospital in town? What if my med alert bracelet comes off? I want a contract forcing them to cover me if I require an emergency abortion and need to be evacuated by helicopter to a…

You started out with a valid point, and then totally derailed yourself by going off on your "Waaahhhhh the feminists are beating men!!" tangent. We're not trying to beat men. Absent a gendered gap in pay, you'd expect women to out-earn men about 50% of the time, and vice versa. So celebrating one woman who outearns…

"We are so sorry that we acted out of fear and uncertainty."

If the criteria used to determine safe driver actually erased the gender gap in driving record (so if controlling for average speed, max speed, weekly VMT, % rural/urban roads, etc. made the gender variable in this model insignificant), then safe drivers should be priced as safe drivers regardless of gender. Starting…

And we're falling into the same trap that we do every time there is some kind of violent act in the news. If a white person does it, we start talking about how it must be mental illness. If a brown person does it, it's terrorism, aggression, etc. (To be fair, I don't think anyone would call a single instance of…

Really? You don't think the slapping was motivated by racism? Why else would this dude felt like he was entitled to exert physical violence (after the slur, which as thandiswe pointed out is also violent) over somebody else's kid? I think you're being naive. Racism and violence are so heavily intertwined in this…

I don't think any reasonable person thinks a long haircut should cost the same as a short haircut. The issue with gendered pricing is when it's the exact same haircut, and the pricing is based solely on gender, not on time or effort required to cut and style.

I actually think we're on the same page. I totally agree that our expectations of masculinity are harmful. I was giving one example of how dismantling rape culture could help male victims, but I can see now how it sounded like I was advocating the status quo for gender roles. Will definitely think about this some…

My bad. I'll try to remember next time. ;)

Hah. This actually sounds like a good thing. I'm having a hard time wrapping my brain around "gender discrimination" because Ladies Night is clearly just as bad for women as men (if you're not paying for the product, you are the product, and all that...), but end result: good for all.

Actually, I do hear MRAs talking about these issues a lot. But they frame it as feminism's fault, not an issue where we could work together. If they could get over their blind hatred and work on certain feminist issues, I think they'd be surprised how fast their own plights would change. If rape is the rapist's…

Excuse me for a minute while I put on my MRA costume and try to imagine what they must be thinking: