Ummmm actually I *do* want to know...

Prince and David Bowie defined me musically and all my coolest memories include them, and Prince isn't much older than me, and now I kinda feel like maybe I’m going to die too. I'm taking this way harder than one is supposed to take a celebrity death, I think.

I had a mad hope that maybe it's just some Prince thing. Like he's not really dead, he's just Dead2U or changed his name or left the planet. Anything but this.

Realistically it’s about learning to eat what’s available rather than encourage farmers to grow what they can’t. Anyone who gets a CSA box in winter learns to eat root vegetables - or toss them. But it’s also not hard to have greens in winter with a heated greenhouse (which can be heated with solar). We just have to…

What is the source of your information re: HRC’s nefarious scheme?

Wait, so is it bad for companies to rebrand themselves based on public pressure? Isn’t that just what successful public pressure should do? Or is the point that Weight Watchers shouldn’t exist at all?

Starred for livin the dream! By which I mean the Midwest rocks. Also sounds like a great guy :)

Cross your fingers for me, then. I’m getting ready to move my operations to a farm closer to a real city, containing - I presume - real human men. I've actually had a couple of wonderful flings with younger men but there's something kinda sad about knowing from the start that it's never going to be more. Anyway, until…

I (a woman) would absolutely buy a male sex robot. In fact I have my credit card out right now. I’m not in a relationship and I don’t see any real change ahead given how hard I work and that the pickings are slim for a middle aged woman to begin with. I love my hitachi but there’s something about the whole physical…

Mental rotation is in fact the only basic cognitive spatial test that reliably shows a gender difference. The consistent interpretation of that had been that women suck. My hypothesis was that women employ different strategies across the menstrual cycle, and because menstrual cycle isn't normally controlled the result…

I’m on the same page. My dissertation (PhD, cog neuropsychology) actually involved gender differences in spatial cognition. The spin is hilarious. There was a whole body of literature about spatial cognition sex differences essentially built on performance on only one of many possible spatial tests. Mental rotation,…

Well, it’s kinda yellow. Not fancy canary yellow, just discount bin giant diamond yellow. I’m a diamond snob, which is only one reason no one is rushing to buy me one.

I don’t so much have an issue with claimed gender differences, per say. I mean, men are generally bigger physically, bfd. The problem with sexists is they draw conclusions from very basic differences related to roles in society, how people should behave in relationships, who should get which jobs - really, who should…

I think Charlize’s point here is that if another woman gets a part she wants, it’s because that woman is ugly.

This guy is deliberately posing with that hair but it’s a pretty large degree of separation from black culture to a fish concert. White street kids and white train riders wear dreads because it’s the easiest thing to manage when you can’t wash very often. (Source: know too many white street kids and train riders).…

Dude, it couldn't be more clear from her post and mine that dating doctors is in no way enticing. We're forced to do it, because we are high-status women and betas won't ask us out.

This is a cool article. My takeaway is that the rules are essentially the same as ascending from depth while scuba diving. You’re referring to but maybe not explicitly mentioning the bends, which occurs when gasses that were dissolved in your tissues under pressure become bubbles in your tissue because they didn't…

I was always skeptical about the taste differences in salts until someone gave me “world famous black Hawaiian salt.” Everything it touches tastes like barf.

The “crystal skull” was obviously molded plastic with some christmas lights inside. They didn’t even bother to make it heavy - the characters toted it like paper mâché. It’s one of the great lost opportunities in prop history.

Ok I have a legitimately hilarious (and illustrative) anecdote here. A high flying (white, male, raised in a privileged home) neurosurgeon I briefly dated (was banging) told me that being a veterinarian doesn’t pay well anymore, and it was women’s fault because they’re willing to work for lower pay. In other words,…