Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Tuesday roundup

Women are so entitled. Some of them refuse to be blamed for being sexually assaulted and others think it's perfectly okay to go out in public while pregnant, even though it's awfully unbecoming. Who do they think they are--actual people??

On that note, science confirms that I have not been deceiving you when writing that men will f* anything:
As the researcher points out, men lower their standards when it comes to one-night stands, so the presumed flattery is a fantasy or close to it. "Often [women] said things like, 'I felt so flattered, so happy that he found me attractive. It was so nice to be wanted,'" said researcher Anne Campbell, a psychologist at Durham University in England. "What women don't seem to see is that men drop their standards massively for a one-night stand." She added, "No woman should be flattered because a man wants to have sex with her once."

Who does Reza Aslan think he is? A religious scholar??

Quit giving yourself a bladder infection from the meat you eat.

China's environmental-agricultural disaster is a cautionary tale. But you don't have to look that far: look how much of our wetlands we've lost to cropland. More on China's agricultural clusterf* here.

Get your children out of that stroller for their own sake, and, while you're at it, hold off on getting them smart phones. Oh, and... never mind, I've got nothing as far as this one is concerned, except, wow. (Well, "wow" and could the author of the original article or her editor get her apostrophes straight?)

I don't think alternative registries are any tackier than traditional ones, and I'd personally rather give people something they need. The taboo behind registries is setting an expectation of a gift, and then there's the horror of calling people out for being original if they don't buy off the registry.

Amazing! I've had dinner conversations about art, history, literature, and politics right in this country!

Feast on vegan cronuts, which, apparently... exist.


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