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Josh commented on the blog post Here are some female pro athletes who came out years before Jason Collins 3 weeks, 3 days ago · View
Think you mean it can’t be *overstated*.
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Josh commented on the blog post Graph of the day: why do we keep hearing about the threat of false rape accusations? 4 months, 2 weeks ago · View
Soooo… in every case where the accused was acquitted, we are to assume the judge/jury got it wrong and someone should have actually gone to jail? Is that what we’re saying? Because otherwise I am confused as to how it is that “faced trial” and “falsely accused” are groups that necessarily exclude one another. Sometimes [...]
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Josh commented on the blog post Iconic kissing sailor photo depicts sexual assault, not romance 7 months, 3 weeks ago · View
The blogger makes a good case, but Lori, I’m not sure I’d say that the sailors in the background are necessarily *smirking*. The one sailor on the left appears to be looking directly at the camera and, to my eyes at least, *smiling*. (IT WAS D-DAY AFTER ALL.) There really isn’t enough detail to the [...]
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Josh commented on the blog post The Olympic Games are obsessed with policing femininity 11 months, 2 weeks ago · View
I agree, Tara. Surely Jos isn’t saying that she wishes to see women compete in the same events as men and come away with no medals in future Olympics, but neither does she wish to see any kind of separation enforced, seemingly, between the sexes. I wish she was putting forward some kind of constructive [...]
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Josh commented on the blog post Racism Watch: Presidential “Candidate” Edition 2 years ago · View
I am by no means defending Ron Paul’s political views, but I think you’re reading something into “welfare state” that isn’t there. That’s a general concept of political science and lots of politicians have, in their careers, uttered those words. There’s even a lengthy wikipedia page on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_state These are words that people can [...]
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