People keep complaining that kids today are being coddled, but I don’t think it’s true. They are being tested and assessed more than ever, and taught that they are failures if they aren’t winners. Participation and hard work should be encouraged and valued over results during the formative years.

‘[...] sometimes your best is not enough’ is a terrible message that, rather than incentivising kids to somehow do better than their best effort, actually just makes them feel like shit.

No. I’m hoping for a world where there’s people in front of the camera and I’m not told in a PR announcement that they’re transgender. You’re the one who doesn’t understand the world we should be working towards. In reality, there could’t be a smaller group than then transgendered. For all the recent press and fight…

Where’s the “Doesn’t matter; had sex” option for preferences on partners’ pubes?

Seriously. I feel like I’ve said this a million times on this site but it’s fucking awesome. Really great weird fucked up female characters. Awesome acting. Actual character arcs. AND it’s also a tinge ridiculous. But all within reason. It’s fantastic.

UnReal is great, I don't know what he's been watching. It's also he only reason I watched The Bachelorette for the first time ever, so he should maybe say thank you a little bit.

I used to call Jake Gyllenhaal The Poor Man’s Tobey Maguire, but he’s become The Rich Man’s Tobey Maguire, and I think that’s beautiful.

I agree with the general point that parents have a responsibility to corral their children into either behaving in a courteous way in public spaces or remove them from public spaces if they can’t behave reasonably well at the moment.

This is a complicated question. For what it’s worth, here’s my two cents as a current cognitive neuroscience PhD student and a former social worker with the severely mentally ill: from the description of his behavior in the linked Yahoo News article, particularly his idea of “value units” and his obsession with the…

It’s easy to be “courageous” when you’re wildly wealthy, not so much when you have to do it while living a normal life among regular people.

Unconditional Basic Income is not only profoundly effective for ameliorating poverty, but also the only way humanity can survive in an era of automation and machine intelligence.

In Dubai I see my middle school girls students reading Malala’s biography all the time. This is their hero. This is the girl that took a bullet to the head that she didn’t have to when she stood up on that bus and said, “I am Malala, who is asking?” to the cowards who came to kill her. She stood up, at 15 years…

It pisses me off that there’s a ceremony to take that shit down. Just take it down, put it in the museum, move on. The Confederacy was traitorous and they lost the war, you goddamned morons.

I grew up in Fairfax County and still live here. An acquaintance of mine was shot for an alleged dine and dash in an IHOP parking garage in Alexandria several years ago - http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/settlements/08…

the 90s are “retro” now.

This was my favorite part: “If a woman is hungry or is worried about a bomb falling from the sky due to poor foreign policy, birth control is really the last thing on her mind.” I know a number of women in the mountains of Nicaragua who can tell them a thing or two about poverty, war, and how much they very much want…

I’ve had this said to me! I said “Well, I AM an American citizen so it makes sense for me to sound American.”

I love this show so much. It always just makes me so happy. I can’t think of any times that they’ve made a legitimately offensive joke, and it has none of the abuse and neglect that are toted as “funny” by other cartoon family shows. I recall an interview or analysis (can’t remember which) pointing out how humanized…

Sex determination and inheritance are completely different biological processes. They are ruled by different parts of the genetic code. Every human has the capacity to be a different sex in the womb so therefore, a man can be born in a woman’s body and a woman can be born in a mans. Caitlyn Jenner did not choose to be…

She won’t get any of my empathy. She is belittling black women. She thinks that all it takes to be a black woman is to tan your skin, wear shitty wigs, and take black dick. She is scum.