Because it keeps them from using their pitchforks. I would like to know more about the alleged victims. For example, if the victims attend school with him, then I think the school needs to weigh whether he should be suspended to protect the victims. The problem here is that we also don't know what the…

Yep. I understand that. I'm not sure how "excellent" a tool developed 200 years ago really is, but I acknowledge that the purpose is to measure the health trend of the general population - not the health of an individual.

I think it's fair to say that it can certainly detect extreme cases, assuming the person is not muscular. But it is generally just a bad measurement. The inventor of it explicitly said that it should not be used for individuals, so it was never meant in any way to apply to individual measurements. But I don't…

I agree. I don't think there's any way to make the data look better regarding the rise of obesity in America no matter what measurement you use.

Got ya. Yes, I agree that is correct to use it as a measure of the general population.

I agree that people don't want the truth. But I disagree that BMI is a decent guideline for anything other than measuring the degree of obesity in the general population. It was developed in the early 19th century (yes, we are still using a measurement from the early 1800s) and was specifically developed only to…

Although I realize that this would be a very small percentage of the totals, I'm fairly certain that the CDC uses BMI to measure obesity. The women pictured in this article would most certainly qualify as overweight and potentially obese according to BMI standards (which is ridiculous I know). But BMI just measures…

One of the problems that I see is that the extremely muscular female body is just as difficult to achieve for some women, if not more so, than the extremely thin body. And at the end of the day both body types are promoting one thing - a very low fat percentage of body fat. I'm not saying that a really muscular body…

Here's the thing - she was lucky that the intruder ended up being relatively harmless. I understand that she was scared of him and that he did assault her by touching her leg, but he also left peacefully when confronted by her and her significant other. What if he hadn't been peaceful? What if he had been violent? …

Oh great, another opportunity to debate whether people should own guns or not. I own a gun. It makes me feel safer at night. This woman apparently decided that everything worked out because she had a man instead of a weapon. I would rather have a weapon. But to each their own.

I don't think she's referring to this specific situation, because as this woman pointed out, she had a guy instead of a weapon. That apparently made her feel safe and it all worked out. But if she had been a female alone, then she may have felt differently. I personally would rather have a weapon because men can be…

I agree. And I also knew you were going to immediately get shit for saying it.

This is true. I lived in NYC for a couple years while engaged, and my ring was absolutely one of the smallest I saw. Yet, it was normal for my home state. So I think it's just culture. I also got a lot of BS for having a smaller ring, and I didn't care. I also know the average cost of a wedding there is…

Well, growing up in Montana, the prejudice here is aimed at Native Americans. Which is just as awful. But I have seen no evidence that her ethnicity (if she was Latina) has anything to do with the victim blaming here. They blame victims in every single rape case. I'm not saying that Montanans aren't prejudice -…

Why does it add an extra something here when there is no evidence that their awfulness has anything to do with her ethnicity? I'm not trying to be obtuse- I just don't understand why her skin color has anything to do with it when all the evidence points to it being about her gender. I have seen no evidence that her…

Okay. She looks pretty light skinned to me. But if you want to read ethnic prejudice into the situation, go ahead. My point is that they are just awful people. I have been following the case and have not seen evidence of ethnic prejudice- just misogyny. Every situation which involves someone that may potentially…

She *was* not black or brown (edited to past tense since she is dead). She was white, at least from all the pictures that I've seen of her. Not that it should make any difference, but I don't think their attempts to hypersezualize her have anything to do with what color she was. I think it just has to do with them…

Yeah, my hope is that Hillary will sweep the senate with her if she wins. I'm just hypothesizing on worst case scenarios.

This. It's like they don't even understand the purpose of "AP" classes. They don't exist just to provide students with more advanced material, but the whole purpose is to get college credit via testing at the end of the year. Cutting out a large portion of the testing material is a huge fucking waste of time for…

The republicans are going to block any confirmation if Hillary gets elected as well, and it will be worse if they win the Senate. There is a small window here where the republicans don't control the Senate in which to act. I'm not worried about RBG's ability. I'm worried about the fact that she is 80 years old, is…