Why don't I do this, cassiebear? Why. I have a blog. Why don't I act like a total fucking clueless douche, write some bullshit like this, get all over the blogs...I could get flown out to New York and stay at a fancy hotel. Maybe have some good pizza or something. Then I could go and yammer to an idiot on some morning…

The more I read about certain animals, like whales, elephants, crows, octopuses (etc, etc), the more it pains me that they're so threatened by humans. Why can't we just get our population down to a reasonable and supportable number and let these animals live?

No, confirmation bias is when you've decided beforehand what results you want, so you select only the data that confirms your beliefs and disregard data that goes against what you wanted to find. Lets say I have a theory that all blue eyed ppl are bad drivers and let a bunch of ppl do a driving test. I have…

Not exactly. Confirmation bias is when you discount data points that don't support your hypothesis. It is, in a way, the statistical version of the belief bias.

'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: 'we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
'How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
'You must be,' said the Cat, 'or you wouldn't have come here.'

My head did actually explode.

I actually like her column and I think in general she gives decent advice, but yeah, this article was not a good idea.

I read Dear Prudence every week. A lot of times she has good advice. But she is really down on drinking for some reason. Anytime someone brings up a problem; "While having a bottle of wine with my friend she informed she is pregnant with my husband's child and is taking my house and the dog." Prudie will say "Good…

I was drunk many many times in college. I put myself in questionable circumstances with men I did not know well enough to trust to that extent when I was that incapacitated and yet I was never sexually assaulted because those men weren't rapists. They respected my boundaries. They were content to just go to sleep next…

For fuck's sake, even their COOKING column is called, "You're Doing it Wrong."

Reading Slate: You're doing it wrong.

I don't think her advice is always awful. She's got some great insights on certain things, and as a survivor of child abuse, her mantra of "you don't have to forgive" appeals to me. But she consistently drops the ball on rape culture and is ridiculously judgmental about even occasional drunkenness.

Wow, Ms. Yoffe, thank you for your amazing, unique, and totally revolutionary advice about rape. Never heard any of this before.

God this was so awful, but is only the latest in a string of Emily Yoffe "advice" that has made me want to hurl. I read one column not so long ago in which she advised the mother of a 13 year old who had stopped eating lunch and was clearly developing an eating disorder and body issues that because she (the mom) was…

Saw this article headline on Slate yesterday and though to myself, "Self. That article title is idiotic, sexist, and bullshit. Don't bother reading it. Just wait to see which Jezebel author's head explodes by 5pm tomorrow."

I wasn't disappointed. Well done.

I've been waiting ALL DAY for the Jezebel response. I knew as soon as I saw the headline that it would end up here.

"If I started defending lies, I would be in a constant state of defending myself — and the haters would win."

For spiritual guidance on how to deal with adversity, she should probably turn to those parents who are dealing with the death of a child that could have been prevented from vaccination.

Problem is, your emotional toolbox is all rusted and laced with tetanus. And since you're a dumbass, you never got your booster shot.

"If I can do it, you can do it," is a problematic thing to say under any circumstances. It's so arrogant. People have different motivations, priorities, skills, personalities and experiences. Get over yourself. Other people are not you, and - hard to believe, I know - may not even want to be.