Actually, wait, hang on. I found a youtube video that is working for me. Watch it quick before SNL has it taken down.

Sadly, SNL and the Daily Show are never available in my country.

There were two gay guys on my team when I was in school, so I think handling someone of the same sex would have been more distracting for them. And yet they someone managed to get on with it.

I can't believe people are really trying to make involuntary teenage boners into an argument against coed wrestling. A teenage boner is going to be just as awkward in a situation when two boys are competing against each other as it is when a girl is competing against a boy.

What I don't understand is that boys apparently have the option of not wrestling against girls? That never happened to me when I wrestled. There was a sense that refusing to compete against someone because of their gender was not an option.

I wrestled in school on a coed team. Some of the people I competed against were boys. Some were girls. I got to listen to all of the lectures from the sexists about how women can't compete with men because of upper body strength differences, but the girls on our team often won matches against boys because we seemed to…

It's true. When people talk about bushmeat, most of the time they're referring to apes or monkeys.

So according to you there is no bias against women in STEM. And in order to make that argument, you are redefining "bias against women" to mean a "discrepenecy in funding for STEM research." Then you disprove the existence of bias by posting that link. And then we're all convinced. But not really.

There are a lot more studies out there that you are ignoring while you are sticking your fingers in your ears and showing how bad a researcher you are.

Nope. You still don't know what you're talking about. I get paid to teach first years and I still make them do the required reading before class, so I'm not going to educate some internet troll who doesn't really give a shit about the correct answer for free. If you had a shred of intellectual integrity, you'd be…

People in English don't usually have publications when they go from BA to MA as the original commenter was talking about, but thanks for playing. With only a modicum of research skills, you could find out about bias against women in academia and get on the road to mainsplaining recovery.

Also, if there's a chance a professor might remember you and you think might write you a reference, shoot them an email and ask to meet up for coffee. With a big gap between BA and MA, I thought I wouldn't be able to get enough references either, but I met up with one former professor who did remember and she not only…

It can help you because you can still go back to university. I had a six year gap between BA and MA. If you're out in the work force for a few years, then you can usually use an employer as a reference. Or go back to a univeristy part time and just take one or two classes outside a degree program as a part time…

The only thing that saved me was that I knew going into university that I would be up against bias and I had a strategy. My advisor flat-out told me that I wasn't grad school material, despite my high GPA and exam scores.

Blah blah blah blah blah. I went all the way from bachelors to PhD on scholarhsip and came out of my MA first in my class, so I don't need you to mansplain this to me, thanks. You can twist what I said all you want, but in no field can someone advance without something stronger than a lukewarm reference. And as far as…

This. This. This.

Give Richardson a chance if you don't like Proust. Richardson brought the stream-of-consciousness technique to the English language. I couldn't take Proust either when I first read him because all I could think was, "wtf is up with this guy's mommy obsession?"

I've had to read a bit of Proust. A section of In Search of Lost Time was required reading for my BA and I had to do another bit for my MA thesis. But the book is so long, it would take me ages to get through the entire thing. It's a bit like Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage. It's my goal to get through both in my…

Now I wish the gods of gif would make a gif of Father Ted bragging about rereading William Shatner's TekWars so that we could use it to illustrate your point.

It's not my fault if the guy can't explain himself clearly.