I've been watching the Lefton party response play out, and I keep thinking the same thing over and over: the stink about cops is a derailment of the very necessary discussion of an incredibly serious problem that happened at the party, which is that David Judah Sher, a known rapist/abuser whose MO includes picking up people at parties just like ( Read more... )

(from Cause I'm Nerdcore Like That; he uses "nerd" where I'd use "geek", but I assure you, it's not enough of a cultural difference for these problems to not exist in my social circles ( Read more... )

via en_ki and the_xtina, if the recent XKCD comic brought you down, have a little something to make it better.

Thank you xkcd for talking about an idea which I was willing to suspend disbelief for in order to have a laugh but have heard people actually spout as if it reflected reality. You see, in order to believe that premise you have to sincerely believe that smart people never ever do stupid things when it comes to sex. If you have such a belief, you ( Read more... )