Counterpoint: if you're taking life (or death) advice from Jenny McCarthy, your kid was doomed somewhere down the line. And you had no business having children in the first place.

No judgement here. Children are the worst.

Yes, there is no redemption for anybody. We should all always be summarily judged for our most misguided moments.

Still, “not showing up” and “just ignore them” isn’t necessarily the best strategy for dealing with actual Nazis in the streets.

Well, that's one way to look at it. "There continues to be shitty people in the world." Unless you're a Utopian, that's always going to be the case. The other prism to view it through would be that when this was written, it would have been considered somewhat controversial and possibly damaging to his brand.…

Bannon perceives China as such a huge threat—presumably because there are even more people of color there

If we evolved from apes why are there still apes.

It's always the same hill, ultimately. Play fair.

I don't know what you're referring to. There is a biological male state; this is scientific fact. There is a biological female state; this is scientific fact. If you want to have discussions of gender, which is generally framed around 'man' and 'woman' rather than 'male' and 'female', we can do that, but it doesn't…

This all describes bad science and poor sourcing (to be technical, he was not writing an academic paper), but not any of the things I've highlighted, all direct quotes published right here. Again, I read the memo, and you are drawing what reads to me like some seriously self-serving bad faith conclusions from his…

Is it perhaps because the larger media reflexively categorized his memo as a "anti-diversity screed" from a "misogynist" who thinks that "women shouldn't be engineers" and "men are better than women"? Again, he's probably not making the best choices, but I can't dismiss the appeal of wanting to have a receptive…

The difference here was that nobody was being categorized as unfit. There was no language to any effect stating that women should not work in the industry, and were not capable of working in the industry. It was about how there were perhaps biological factors driving raw numbers in participation, and that the…

No, but you may be confusing that with the time I said that using the phrase "against their will" to describe the actions of people who had willfully chosen to be in a relationship and were by all appearances willfully choosing to stay in a relationship could be called into question. The question being, what exactly…

If they wanted to fire him, their call. I just object to the character assassination language surrounding the whole thing; he's a "misogynist" who wrote an "anti-diversity screed", he thinks "women shouldn't be engineers", he thinks "men are better than women", etc, etc. I read the memo and it was and said none of…

I didn't say I was one of those people, just that they exist. I don't know much about it; it isn't my field of study.

I agree that that can happen, but the second it become the presumption regardless of any surrounding context, I think we've taken a bad turn. That's why I really don't like seeing broad disparagement of people for having any contrary view that relates in any way to the broader discussion of equality or diversity. …

First off, male is not gender, it is biology. Biology is definitely not a social construct.

As for his specific arguments, fair enough. It's not my field of study. I'm just saying I read it, and I got nothing like "misogyny" or that his point was "men are better than women."

I read it, and that was not my takeaway at all. What I got was that the nature of that work falls more in line with characteristics possessed on the male end of the spectrum, and that may be a reason why you don't see as many women doing it. Not because they can't, but because as a larger population, it's not their…

There are people who believe that there are biological drivers that affect how men and women function in society as reflected in broad trends within the larger population. Therefore, it is reasonable for them to presume that these biological actors might influence proportions of representation within certain fields…