Do you know something about John Kelly I don't?

I didn't get you banned. Seek help.

"Some social scientists are Marxists" != "social justice is a cultural Marxist plot".

I don't think there's any evidence that the biological differences between men and women are the primary cause of gender imbalance in most professions, particularly not tech. None of his arguments for why males might be biologically more suited to seek out a technical job were convincing. His explanation of "liberal"…

Of course there are biological differences in brain structure. What does that have to do with anything?

If you need to go out back into the alley to vomit, that's okay. I'll come back to make sure you're okay and that the door doesn't lock behind you.

My assumption has been that they've already started doing "splices" with the Gizmodo staff, and that after the Kinjapocalypse they'll just do it the way those sites do it (by just cross-posting the same article to multiple sites).

"It’s too early to draw any confident causal conclusions from this paper."

You keep on writing "Sigh" and "ARGGH" and the like. It seems like it really pains you to comment here. Why don't you relieve your pain and our annoyance by getting the fuck out?

"Mild, well-intentioned conversation starters" generally shouldn't have footnotes accusing the people you're trying to start a conversation with of being Marxist revolutionaries.

The thing is, if he wrote a 10-page memo supporting the current diversity programme, would you care?

Ooh, I heard Andrew Sullivan defended him too! Maybe someone can get Charles Murray on the horn?

He was willing to start a productive dialogue with his coworkers about how they were biologically unsuited for their careers and that their isolation in the industry was simply the natural outcome of genetics, yes.

Politics are relevant to pop culture. Especially this movie.

There really should be a "violates community rules" option, because racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic comments aren't allowed at AVC.

It is a look at 300 the film.

The problem is that it uses its historical basis in a disingenuous way. Miller strays from historical fact where it suits him and then hides behind it to defend against criticism, like when Alan Moore questioned the comic's remarks about "Athenian boy-lovers", and Miller responded:

Like many things about that movie, the fight choreography is pretty cool viewed in isolation from its place in the movie, but doesn't actually fit with what the movie is trying to communicate. Right from the start, you have the scene where the Comedian is killed — in the comic, it's a brutal, lopsided thrashing, with…

300 the comic book was written before 9/11 and had much of the same material and was criticized for it at the time. And one of Miller's main sources was Victor Davis Hanson, who is a right-winger obsessed with western warriors fighting off the alien hordes. It's not a novel analysis to connect the movie to the far…

Yeah, I was just thinking about that after I commented but was too tired to go look it up.