I’m an old, at least compared to most of you apparently, so I remember very well the Tyson days. He WAS reviled, more universally than Mayweather. He also went to jail, unlike Mayweather. If he’s not reviled now, it’s because he did his time and apparently has (relatively) behaved since then.

“Cite your sources - for someone who keeps saying captivity is bad, you’re sure defending it a lot.”

Actually the most recent research shows at this point in time an orca in captivity will on average live about as long as one in the wild. Historically this was not the case, though.

Historically orcas died earlier in captivity, but the current mortality rate is now about even to those in the wild, according to the NOAA scientist studying the issue (and aquariums have to report things like marine mammal deaths to NOAA). That’s the most accurate way to compare captive to wild populations.

Their orcas do live about as long as orcas do in the wild; it’s just a horrible, traumatic life.

What’s wrong with the picture? He looks reasonably healthy. And he has money and thus access to good medical care. And you said “exactly middle aged.”

Actually life expectancy continuously changes through life; a 38 year old in the U.S. has another 40 years or so expected (and correcting for race and socioeconomic class probably a little more):

I don’t get this. Seriously. The guy’s comment was passionate but I don’t see why it’s deserving of being plastered on the front page of a high-traffic blog and then made fun of.

I don’t think they’d say they were surprised at all.

I was watching this last week for the first time since I was a kid; it’s amazing how, when you look at the true historical context, almost every misfortune, setback, and suffering the aristocratic southerners go through is well-deserved.

I can never see a younger picture of the Queen without thinking of Scott Thompson from Kids in the Hall playing the Queen.

That lifestyle looks like living hell, though. Imagine always being in the spotlight, the neverending boring fancy dinners, the constant pressure of having to adhere to some idiotic protocol policed by palace functionaries...

I’m hoping for Tiffani, with a royal decree that the ending “i” always be dotted with a heart.

Personally, I think the English especially like to exaggerate the alleged American obsession with their royals out of a deep-seated embarassment that they’re the ones with the silly medieval system still around.

Mayweather may be a terrible person, but he’s not a coward. He has spent his adult life trading punches with people. He fights in a way to avoid getting punched as much as possible. Not doing so is stupid, not brave.

As I noted in another comment, this isn’t because people are “shallow”; having physical preferences in romantic partners is completely justifie. It’s about the erroneous impression that a lot of women seem to have on Jezebel that men dance through life unencumbered by judgments on their appearance. I am currently not…

Also, I don’t think “shallow” is the right word; people are attracted to what they are attracted to. I certainly understand why I had so much trouble when I was overweight; I think my issue was always that the experience was just dismissed outright like it didn’t exist.

Not in this case.

I agree that women’s appearances are policed much, much more than men’s and I’m sure it is horrible. I wasn’t trying to say otherwise so I apologize if that was the impression I gave. I just do think that men’s bodies do get policed in similar ways, if not across as many different spheres. I guess my issue has always…

Well, you hit all the Jezebel cliches. Good for you.