Yeah. I was the same age as the victims of the shooting. I remember the event very clearly. It was THE moment of my life that completely altered the way I saw the world. Up to then, I was one of those rose-coloured glasses feminists, you know? I thought people just didn’t know about sexism and that if you could just…

This group does it for Australia. 79 women killed in 2015, 31 women killed so far this year.

AND, if you think it is sexist, then you are sexist.

I consoled myself by being much smarter and more successful than him.

I know, right? It was around the turn of the 20th century but the defense lawyer successfully argued that the children were paid for services rendered and that their father was just angling for more cash or trying scam this fine, honest gentlemen. Lots of interesting stuff about class in their too.

To be fair, it was only one of the reasons. I checked in with a colleague a few years ago and all the women who had been in the department had left for the interdisciplinary Women’s Studies dept. leaving an all-male History dept. The History dept was toxic to women, apparently. Who knew/

It does. It was written by Karen Dubinsky, a History prof at Queen’s University and it’s called Improper Advances: Rape and Heterosexual Conflict in Ontario, 1880-1929. It’s an interesting look at the evolution of rape from a civil offense (something that could be corrected by paying the injured party, ie. the…

I know. It’s no excuse. But I’m trying to be nicer and less judgmental. I just read an article about keeping toxic people out of your life and awkwardly realized that my nasty, judgmental attitude makes me the sort of toxic person that I’m supposed to keep out of my life.

The only thing I can say to mitigate their idiocy is that it was the 90s and a few of them were in their 40s, so really... Jesus. They’d be in their 60s and 70s now.

Do you mean the rape thing? Yeah. He claimed that I knew the risks when I decided to go to grad school. I pointed out that I couldn’t complete a graduate degree without attending evening classes because all the requisite classes were held then. He did not see that as a systemic barrier to female enrollment.

Thanks! I’m so excited.

I had a male colleague tell me that I assumed the risk of being raped by attending evening classes on campus.

History Chicks?! How the hell didn’t I know about this?!

And they do it with their women’s voices. And lady brains.

My time in grad school, as the only female grad student in the History dept., was spent giving “the woman’s opinion” on every issue.

I commented on SYMIHC that the problem was they were talking with women’s voices. It has nothing to do with content.

It's his divorce lawyer. He's not representing him in a criminal matter, one would hope.

Can't he just say nothing?! He's his divorce lawyer. Surely he's within his rights to say "no comment" to questions about whether a family law client may or may not be a murdered. Actually, it seems like "no comment" is the best thing to say.

But was Mitchell talking about the financial crisis (as I said) or was he talking about a single transaction? I can't find it now, for some reason.

David Mitchell does this great bit on UK tv about how the financial crisis wasn’t actually a crisis. Nothing was destroyed, all the pigs in Europe didn’t die, there was no shortage of actual commodities. It was just, in his words, “assholes being assholes” and life should proceed okay.