Fair enough, I see your point - but I think it is pointlessly pedantic.

Off topic, but I mentally mutter "goddamned that is awesome" about your handle every damned time I run across a post of yours.

Serious question - is there a push-back within religious corners against the more intrusive pro-lifers? Any push back from church leaders? I wonder because I know there are other Christians like you who are not so intrusive with your beliefs, but probably don't have the loudest voices/expansive funding.

Ammonite - was your point to prove that men just don't respect the personal dignity or space of ANYONE - male or female?
...beeeecause that doesn't exactly exonerate men. Or indict women as overly-sensitive to 'nice greetings.'

Troy...man speaking here. Now that I probably have your attention:

No. You CAN approach a woman on the street. You CAN compliment her and tell her she's pretty and that you'd like to get to know her (not biblically) or see her in another setting (say, playing volleyball IF she's wearing a v-ball t-shirt, not just if…

Here here

I. Totally. Feel you.

My first thought too - "too bad it's all the southeast, flyover country..and effing Texas."

But then I'm a very progressive black male - so that more or less rounds out my list of places to never ever move to. Ever.

Simple solution:
1) http://www.rentaswag.com/

I will respond to this on Friday - studying for 3 killer exams tomorrow and hating life immensely right now. Or Thursday once I stop paying attention in lecture, but Friday midday EST at latest for sure - you seem like you're down for serious discourse, versus point-gathering arguing. I'm a fan.

Ok, yeah the tone was a bit ambiguous (as interpreted by me) so I wasn't sure if you were just flat out agreeing, as it was - or being a jerk., like a few posters on this thread.

Valeries - just ignore him. He tried to throw a study at me to prove his racist point, and the study never addressed his point at all - I think he just read the title, skimmed 3 pages in, and assumed no one would actually open it an read through.

I'm wiling to bet he's the type who thinks the concept of "Schrodinger's…

If you are being sarcastic, then fair enough. A bit ambiguous, your tone, but fair enough.

If you are being patronizing, then may I humbly refer you to this: Schrodinger's Rapist: Or, a guy's guide to approaching strange women without being maced

1) Educated people can also be idiots - I will wholeheartedly agree with that. However, you presumed I was one as well based on nothing but a few points on a single isolated topic. Again, logical reasoning...

Re: You are putting words in my mouth, likely because you are of limited intelligence.

Valerie - You need to realize that your personal anecdotes (ad anyone else's that are discordant with Jibbens' experiences) don't amount to 'data' - VERY unlike the personal anecdotes of Jibbens and similar company.

Stop ignoring reality (as filtered by Jibbens' experiences) and just admit that minorities are…

No, there wasn't from what I saw. But we don't have a map of where this woman walked. Presumably, you don't either. She may have been walking through predominantly minority-populated areas. With unemployment rates commonly being higher for minorities (especially blacks and hispanics) than whites, I'd be surprised…

LOL...sorry, as a man of color at the largest university in the USA right now - you have very limited experience. Whites and paler-tinged jews (ID'd by their Hillel club tees) do this shit ALL. THE. TIME. Individually, in packs, on foot, and out of passing car windows.

To control for the younger uni demographic, go…

As a Physical Therapy student currently saddled with a pretty boring capstone research project, I would LOVELOVELOVE to investigate that epidemiological question: the comparative prevalence of Dx'd celiac disease, self-reported celiac disease, documented gluten sensitivity, and per capita sale of gluten-free products…

...in more ways than one it seems...