Stop bodyshaming plastic Eowyn!

The sad thing is teachers get it from both sides; the fundamentalist right-wing tea party evangelicals, and the progressive granola-munching, yoga addict Park Slope moms who think that you just don’t recognize dim-witted little Aiden’s giftedness. At least those two demographics tend to live in different places.

I am a behavioral scientist myself, though the kind of stuff I work on doesn’t always involve hypothesis testing, particularly when I’m doing ethnography—but I still consider it science. There’s also traditional “hard” science work that doesn’t always do hypothesis testing, even in things like analytical chemistry or…

“Body shaming is NEVER okay.”

It took me like two decades to see Bill Nye as the Science Guy and not as the sketch comedy guy from Almost Live, and now he’s back on sketch comedy?

Hmm, what about psychology? Or anthropology? There are also non-experimental (or frequently non-experimental) things that usually count as a hard science, like ecology. I kind of like the idea of including all the non-humanities in one big scientific continuum, with the understanding that the more the variables (which…

I’m not trying to dismiss any field; I’ve done graduate work in a weird mix of fields, including English, philosophy, chemistry, biology, and law, and they all have their own special intricacies. I was just responding to “As my dad, a chemist, says, anything with “science” in its name isn’t”; it seems unfairly…

Right, but my point but dismissing an academic field based on its name is a terrible idea; earth science is certainly considered a “harder” science than biology, for example.

As a man I am totally able to change a tire and would do so in a heartbeat if it didn’t make my hands all yucky.

“But Demian isn’t even sure that water waste was hers.”

Wow, all those earth scientists, environmental scientists, marine scientists, atmospheric scientists, and neuroscientists better just pack it in and go teach in a humanities department, huh?

As a lawyer who used to work 80 hours a week who is now back in academia, let’s not go overboard; being a tenure-track professor is work but at the end of the day it’s not working in the salt mines, and for most people it’s about the same workload as other white collar professions (and on tenure track, the pay is…

If they ask you if you’re married, just say “are you proposing? because I accept! THIS IS THE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE!”

Uhhh...we do have donuts on the East Coast, you know...

That reminds me of when I went on a roller coaster despite the sign saying the maximum height was a few inches shorter than me. As I’m belted in I suddenly realize the implications of that and spend the whole ride bent over lowering my head. Unsurprisingly, intentionally forcing your head forward on a vehicle…

The judge has to deal with the evidence presented, not a psychological analysis conducted based on incendiary Jezebel stories. The judge does not have the discretion to suddenly decide what this guy’s motivation is and make a judgment based on a hunch.

Are you joking? North Korea lets people in if they think they can use the event. Look at Dennis Rodman. It’s really not that big an accomplishment.

That’s the thing, though; they do have leverage. These aren’t mail order brides, but rather highly educated, likely middle- or upper-class women who had other options besides marrying the rich guy. They’re not going to roll the roulette wheel on this.

“I thought they’d drawn up a contract which said that mutual agreement was necessary to bring a pregnancy to term. This is just plain mind boggling.”

“This sets a very scary precedent, and it sucks that you can dangle reproductive rights on a woman’s face in order to control and her manipulate her.”