Yeah, it’s a serious problem. I’m watching them drive away 40-60-somethings on twitter. Maybe they need a boxing cave or something where they can just all hit each other.

Yeah, whatever. NSF will cut off funds to schools protecting sexual harassers when the polar ice caps melt and we’re all underwater.

Nope.

All for dumping shaming people about their bodies. All for enjoying life in the body you live in. Completely against pretending that major diseases do not correlate strongly with excess fat, also with pretending that fat at 20 will not have consequences 25, 35, 45 years later, when you’re still hoping to live…

Awesome game. Decode this and send a governor to jail.

Duh, we’re trying to stay employed. You want better college courses, stop hiring K12 teachers who talk about “delivering content” and “testables”. And sit your kids in front of PBS, ffs.

Doesn’t surprise me in the least. Is it me, or does this guy just have “child molester” written all over him? Because there’s no fucking way I’d leave my daughter alone in a room with him. Whatever’s going on inside his head, you know it’s not right.

The maddening thing is that you really can’t tell who did what. Was it the PI who had the idea and manhandled the student around and mostly wrote the paper? Was it a postdoc or student who did the whole thing him- or herself? There’s no way to know unless you know the group.

The stupid thing is that Lander’s rhetoric is so terribly transparent. I mean you may as well have stickies saying “MAKE SURE YOU MAKE IT CLEAR HERE THAT SHE HAD PEOPLE HELPING HER AND DIDN’T DO IT HERSELF” “TAKE OUT THIS SUPERLATIVE” etc.

It’s like when two-year-olds stick their heads under a blanket and figure you…

This actually makes me very sad.

In 1990 I did get a “secretarial job on the fringes” to stay close to aviation after I ran out of money for private lessons. Worked on the charter side of a small airfield, and yes, I got some great rides, once in Aeronca Champ, once in an open-cockpit Stearman. But rides was all they…

So disappointed. I’d misread the head as “Nancy Drew Robot”.

No Nancy Drew robot, I guess. Well, nothing to see here.

OH. Oh, I get it. This is about young people who’ve grown up in the era of pink and purple toy aisles and think the world’s always been that way.

HELLO I AM THE NOT TREMENDOUSLY DISTANT PAST SPEAKING TO YOU. YOUR MIND HAS BEEN FILLED WITH SHIT BY FRATBOY MARKETERS. WHEN THE FORCE BEGAN IN 1977 NOBODY THOUGHT IN THIS…

Sorry, just saw this. Who the hell is J.J. Abrams? Never heard of him.

Most men do enough that a man who does the bare minimum — shows up semi-reliably to see a child, pays some share of what it costs to raise that child semi-reliably — is viewed as a good man. As is a husband who isn’t violent or addicted or unemployed. When the bar has to be set that low (because otherwise it turns out…

See my post above. After 30 years of dating, one marriage and one might-as-well-have-been marriage, the answer is no.

Men get really unhappy about the mistrust surrounding men, but unfortunately there’s good reason for the mistrust. Too many of us find that there aren’t all that many of you who are trustworthy and can…

I just plain don’t anymore. Out of all the men I’ve been involved with over a span of 30 years, only two turned out to be normal, safe-to-be-around, non-lying/stealing human beings. The rest...bunch of liars, a child-molesting felon, a suicide, a few thieves, an actually violent guy...all college-educated, most with…

I don’t think that’s what she said, though. If you’ve been through custody fights you might understand why sailing in with Elizabeth-Taylor urgencies about how much you wanted custody isn’t a great idea, why sometimes people back off and speak temperately. Too much is at stake to get dramatic.

you know...I’m watching you go through this thread, insisting on the me me me what about me when the topic is not you, and thinking about other men I’ve known working in majority-women fields and complaining about being psychologically abused by their bosses. Without exception, every one of these guys was either:

1) a…

This is worth framing.

I don’t know how to explain this to you, but we’ve had semiconductor industries in places other than Texas since we’ve had semiconductors. Raytheon was the work of MIT dudes who just happened to find Texas convenient. It’s bizarre how things like, oh, Bell Labs, Xerox, IBM, Microsoft, the entire…

You are completely welcome in my classes with your children.

SHUT UP. SHUT UP. SHUT UP. When you are responsible for raising children while also making a living, you get to speak on this matter.

I teach at a university. When someone has to bring a child, someone has to bring a child. That person sits near the door in case he or she needs to duck out with the kid, but otherwise,…