Jayne: There's times I think you don't take me seriously. I think that ought to change. Mal: Do you think it's likely to?

'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


Natter 41: Why Do I Click on ita's Links?!  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Jesse - Jan 04, 2006 5:41:55 am PST #7201 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Benefits of being a student.


le nubian - Jan 04, 2006 5:42:04 am PST #7202 of 10002
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

There isn't a supposed discrimination against women in math and sciences, this is a fact.

It is also a fact that men are falling behind in total numbers. No need to denigrate one fact when both facts are true.


erikaj - Jan 04, 2006 5:42:50 am PST #7203 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!

What would Munch know about pleasing his exes? The opposite of...(Scary, isn't it, my absorption into Munchkinland...I'm a cautionary tale in dark glasses.) But a lot of times cops get the tip because an ex-gf calls, mostly because the idiot either:

1. Gets really drunk and brags.

2. Break-up turns ugly...she tells him off and he gets all "You think that matters to me? I did xyz and nobody ever knew."
I thought white-collar guys were smarter, but crime makes you stupid.ETA: And if I keep posting like that nobody will invite me to any showers...EVER.


le nubian - Jan 04, 2006 5:43:13 am PST #7204 of 10002
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

I should also note that this phenomenon was a problem for African Americans for years. When the issue became increasingly a problem for the White population, that's when far more people were taking notice.


Nora Deirdre - Jan 04, 2006 5:43:43 am PST #7205 of 10002
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

Which means that, on average, college-educated women and high-school-educated men will have a harder time finding partners as long as educators keep ignoring the gender gap that starts long before college. Advocates for women have been so effective politically that high schools and colleges are still focusing on supposed discrimination against women: the shortage of women in science classes and on sports teams rather than the shortage of men, period. You could think of this as a victory for women's rights, but many of the victors will end up celebrating alone.

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also, what le nubian said.

The connections Tierney makes seem quite specious.


Topic!Cindy - Jan 04, 2006 5:43:45 am PST #7206 of 10002
What is even happening?

Which means that, on average, college-educated women and high-school-educated men will have a harder time finding partners as long as educators keep ignoring the gender gap that starts long before college. Advocates for women have been so effective politically that high schools and colleges are still focusing on supposed discrimination against women: the shortage of women in science classes and on sports teams rather than the shortage of men, period. You could think of this as a victory for women's rights, but many of the victors will end up celebrating alone.

The human population is what--somewhere between 90 and 95% heterosexual? I have a sneaking suspicion that, statistical blips aside, het men and het women will keep finding each other.


Jesse - Jan 04, 2006 5:50:18 am PST #7207 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Now that I'm getting a Master's degree, I have to dismiss like 88% of the population out of hand, and that's before we've even talked politics or salary!

It's ruff, mang.


Jessica - Jan 04, 2006 5:56:32 am PST #7208 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Scluptures made out of forks.


Strega - Jan 04, 2006 5:58:03 am PST #7209 of 10002

(Wasn't that a movie with Glenn Close? She played an evil newspaper head, and I think Tom Hanks was the reporter with strong morals who challenged her? And I think she dies in the end?)

You might be thinking of The Paper. With Michael Keaton, not Hanks. I don't remember Close dying; I thought it was more a dramedy and that sounds kinda dark. I do remember that in the end Keaton heroically gets a scoop by committing an outrageous violation of journalistic ethics. Peculiar movie.


sarameg - Jan 04, 2006 5:58:36 am PST #7210 of 10002

Sculptures made out of forks.

For some reason, I chose to read this as a suggested response to this

Now that I'm getting a Master's degree, I have to dismiss like 88% of the population out of hand, and that's before we've even talked politics or salary!