It’s leading to a generation of guys who are overly aggressive, handsy, demand or act entitled to sex, and may even contribute to the sharp increase in rape on college campuses.

I’ll sometimes look down and have neck stubble catch on my shirt. Imagining that all the time against my pants... eeeeeeeyai.

See, what I’m thinking is that putting him on the sex offender registry for at least fifteen years is less helpful than putting him on it for, say, ten years, all of which he spends in jail. I’m curious what the sentencing on this will be.

YES. I’ve come to realize I only ever thought getting married might be worth it is because I was always planning the nutty-ass party I wanted the reception to be in my head. I don’t have to plan everything, but give me some bigass speakers, a laptop, and playlist control and get out of the way.

I’m pretty much on board with your whole post, apart from I still like MMA. The tough thing about boxing is that almost nobody walks away from a lengthy career without brain damage that will make their later lives very difficult, and which is often noticeable before they’re even done fighting. MMA, at least thus far,…

This is the thing that keeps me off OKC (et al) in any serious way. I’ve spent so long not needing to make space for a significant other in my daily routine (most relationships have been long distance, but fuck those at this point) that I can’t help but think I’m going to end up feeling that same kind of off-kilter,…

[...]the type of shit with which Nixon himself, who was indistinguishable from fucking Voldemort on like 87 percent of policy issues, would have agreed without blinking, and not just because he had his eyelids sewn to his forehead in 1971 so he’d never lose sight of George McGovern.

No one believed that was his body. I sure as hell didn’t.

I was hanging around having fun reading the comments, but then I got to this. O’Malley has Putin’s ass kicked.

For linking that video, you get all of these.

Dan Savage has put forth what seems to me the most concise, logical view on the matter: If you’re involved with someone, there’s a level of implied consent that extends to or around acts you’ve already performed with each other. Not to the point of automatic access, obviously, but if the norm becomes that (for…

My understanding has always been that rape specifically refers to some form of penetration. In that case, it’s also possible, since we have basically no details of what happened, that she’s guilty of sexual assault but not rape.

I was thinking something similar when I saw the bit about “sexual appropriation” with the link to Same Love. I went and read the lyrics to make sure I wasn’t thinking of the wrong song. So... it’s appropriation to write a song about not being gay but that it’s fucked up to hate people for it? Isn’t that pretty much…

Yes, but it was sort of like if someone that isn’t from South Korea finishes top 8 at a Starcraft tournament. Everyone’s blown away and cheering their local gaming hero even though they’re still several steps from a championship.

I’m pretty sure none of the gun nuts are going to be dissuaded from their trolling by precise terminology. Plus, from what I can tell, “spree killers” are at least partly defined by running around hitting different locations. So I’m running with what’s become the most widely accepted definition of “mass shooting”,…

Yet another school shooting took place last night, roughly the 249th mass shooting in the United States this year.

I entirely agree. What I said was mainly in response to the comment about shaming him; we can’t do much more to him than has already happened. I guess I’m maybe used to seeing so many stories about shit like this where people aren’t in trouble- or aren’t in trouble yet, because it got on here before the whole thing…

I’m all for covering it; at the same time, he not only lost his job, but at the bottom of the article it shows the letter the company wrote in firing him, which includes the comment that they will make sure none of the businesses they work with ever do business with him again. At this point I’m not sure what would be…

“It’s strange that such a chauvinist monster like me has been asked to speak to women scientists. Let me tell you about my trouble with girls. Three things happen when they are in the lab: you fall in love with them, they fall in love with you, and when you criticise them they cry. Perhaps we should make separate labs…

What Tim Hunt said was stupid as fuck. That’s just referencing the quote that really got him in the shit, but the start of that quote has him talking about being perceived as a “chauvinist monster”; that doesn’t happen unless he’d been accused of such comments/behavior in the past, which seems awfully plausible given…