One more point: I would imagine the reason for the declining yucks at Deadspin is because the site has fewer articled like Piggy Poop Balls and the Viking Sex Boat, and more longform articles, many of which are crossposted from Gawker and Jezebel, on racism, sexism, economic exploitation of college athletes, brain…

That would be a reasonable definition, but so many discussions on rape culture simply use it as a synonym for patriarchal social groupings or male bravado, or even as an epithet or as a stand-in for modern society in general. It's a malleable definition with no set boundaries.

Point taken. I'll try and at least offset my own SRS BSNS posts in the future.

It means you have funny ideas about what constitutes a "sociological definition."

Jennifer Doyle is the author of Hold It Against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art and Sex Objects: Art and the Dialectics.

...They get scholarships to USC?

I really think they're starting to run out of ideas for Baby Einstein videos.

These are some pretty good points, actually. I'll try to answer some of them.

It could, because you cannot concede even the smallest bit of ground even when you've been proven wrong. Rather than saying "Sorry, I didn't understand your joke," you feel the need to fall back on "well it was a bad joke anyway?" Not to mention the fact that you stewed about it for days before bringing it up in a…

1.You can read my posts. They explain the relevance. Once again, the relevance is that bringing up Russia's repression in an article dealing with the Olympics cannot help but dovetail with calls for boycotting the Olympics, as though it is America's moral duty to shame other countries or that America has a leg to…

Sorry I missed your point, and sorry I asked if you were simple. However:

1.No, what is needless emotional hand-wringing is bringing up Russia's human rights record in an article about the Winter Olympics and a spacewalk. Neither is being used as an instrument of oppression against gay people.

I make jokes too. Also, you do not seem to know what trolling is.

I don't think that's his intent either, but better or worse, arguments have an objective significance.

Yeah, Russia is definitely regressing on human rights. However, to the extent that this issue is brought up by politicians and major media outlets in the US, it is only for the most cynical reasons, to pressure Russia into concessions on this or that issue. When they talk about boycotting the Games, they don't give a…

If I gave the impression that I thought that Sam was some sort of neoliberal goon who dry-humps the American flag every night before he goes to bed, then I'm sorry, that wasn't my intention. It was really more that this idea that "WELL AT LEAST WE'RE NOT RUSSIA" is a bad way of thinking of things because it leads to…

No shit?

What is this? This is beneath you.

Putin = Hitler? Are you simple?