I was sent this choice quote from Paul Elam [He denies it is his; evidence suggests that the quote below is a forgery], the ignoramus who runs A Voice for Men, and it stunned me into silence. So much wrong. So painful. Such unscientific nonsense.
I was sent this choice quote from Paul Elam [He denies it is his; evidence suggests that the quote below is a forgery], the ignoramus who runs A Voice for Men, and it stunned me into silence. So much wrong. So painful. Such unscientific nonsense.
I am conventionally monogamous and married, and have been in a stable and affectionate relationship for almost 40 years. So I suppose I should be smug about this report that married people are the happiest people.
I am not a fan of the Harry Potter books (what was that noise? So that’s what a million people simultaneously unsubscribing sounds like!) — my kids enjoyed them, we’ve got all of them around here somewhere, and I read the first couple of them, but they were just a bit too repetitive for my taste, and also too familiar. But don’t worry, I can understand how a lot of people liked them.
But now I’ve read a rewrite of the main story line, with Hermione as the main character. Much better! That’s a story I’d read to the end!
It’s shocking what college men will confess to.
The University of North Dakota researchers asked 73 men if they would force a woman to have sex with them if there was no chance of being punished, and 31.7 percent said they would. When the researchers asked if the man being questioned would "rape" a woman if there were no consequences, however, 13.6 percent said they would.
Hmm. UND has about 15,000 students; if half are men, that means there are about a thousand amoral assholes wandering about who’d like to rape someone, and about 2400 who are willing to rape as long as it isn’t called rape. Anyone want to claim there is no such thing as a rape culture here?
The lesson is that you should send your daughters to the University of Minnesota, because I’m sure our students are not at all like those Dakotans. There’s a border and everything.
They are all recipients of the 2014 Secular Woman Awards, and they are all deserving.
Hey, I’ve also had the personal honor and privilege of meeting every one of them in real life, and will probably be bumping into them again, at which time I shall bask gloatingly in their reflected glory.
Russia has decreed that transgender people are not allowed to drive. Why, you might wonder?
Many Muscovites loathe driving because of the daily traffic jams, and it now seems that the government has found a new solution to the problem: People with "sex disorders," including those who identify as transsexual or transgender, may no longer drive. "The decisions are aimed at reducing deaths from road traffic accidents," an official statement on the decree reads.
That makes no sense. Is there evidence that this particular subgroup contributes inordinately to traffic accidents? They certainly aren’t common enough that removing them from the road will make a dent in their traffic problems. So I have a better idea.
I’m impressed. It takes awesome levels of fuckuppery to achieve this: they convinced a major tech company to invest $300 million in an initiative to oppose #gamergate’s goals.
Someone has violated the Holy Law of the online harassers: Thou Shalt Not Dox, because that might expose an asshole to the consequences of their actions. Guess who?
I laughed a long time at this silly complaint from an MRA, so I had to share.
It is every mother’s worst nightmare to lose a child, and I have to feel Carla May Alcorn’s pain.
This is certainly not the time to take exception to the religious sentiments in her announcement. Except…