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• A comment on Talk: Colin Stokes: How movies teach manhood

  Jan 18 2013: I really like the video, but I always dislike the casual implication that men are the only sexual assailants. Though, not really the point of the video. Boys have a lot of problems to overcome & I think this is a good step.

• A comment on Conversation: Why do people who have many advantages in life struggle with ongoing happiness whilst others with far less to be happy about are happier?

  Aug 13 2012: I honestly wish I knew. I blame my personal complacence on my middle class upbringing; I've literally never had to struggle. Granted, I am fairly intelligent but all that did was grant me the insight I needed to get by on the minimum, and even though I went to college I skated through. I've been reflecting a lot lately & I've come to realize much of my life was handed to me & when pressed to say what happiness & success looks like to me I have no answer.
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  A reply on Talk: Kirby Ferguson: Embrace the remix

  Aug 10 2012: Mr. Ferguson presumably didn't invent the means of preparing a solid speech, or how to tell a story, but he "jumped 'em from other writers" and arranged it his way. He built it on centuries of standard practice.
  
  And the works of Picasso & Michelangelo are fairly linear. Michelangelo was a genius who pushed the skills he learned about other artists into new realms of creativity. Picasso began his career studying the masters, including Michelangelo, and built upon that to create something new.
  
  It's obviously not that simple, but nothing is brand new. Everything you create is wrapped up in your experiences and your broader culture … including this comment.
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  A reply on Talk: Shereen El Feki: HIV -- how to fight an epidemic of bad laws

  May 24 2012: Yeah, not trying to take away from the overall argument at all. It's just a phrase that's thrown around a lot to emphasis how bad a disaster or horrible event is. I love hearing it in natural disaster reports, like somehow all the men deserved to die in a tsunami.
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  A comment on Talk: Shereen El Feki: HIV -- how to fight an epidemic of bad laws

  May 24 2012: Not the poor, poor "women and children"! Hate that phrase. Good talk though!

• A comment on Conversation: Do you think feminism is becoming a sexist anti-men movement?

  May 11 2012: My problem with the feminist movement it that it often overshadows the problems of boys & young men. If you try and highlight the fact that boys only have sports figures as positive role models or that young men are dropping like flies in the American school system there always seems to be 10 people telling you you're being insensitive to women's issues.
  
  I don't see why discussions of men's & women's issues have to be mutually exclusive.

• A comment on Conversation: Should health insurance be related to a patient's risk?

  May 4 2012: Why is dental insurance even a separate thing? Last time I checked dentists were just specialists.
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  A reply on Talk: JK Rowling: The fringe benefits of failure

  Apr 21 2011: Be careful name-dropping Rand. Many have written a great deal about the folly of just about every word she wrote.

• A reply on Talk: Kathryn Schulz: On being wrong

  Apr 20 2011: She mentions God, because her prior example was Saint Augustine … who was probably a bit churchy.
  
  I think she's emphasizing not questioning with her tone. It's not a straight upward curve in pitch, but rather an up then down bell curve. I consider that inflection, not question.

• A reply on Talk: Kathryn Schulz: On being wrong

  Apr 20 2011: I would be willing to cheat, steal, and potentially murder (if the conditions were right) to save my family &/or friends. I think they're all wrong, but I would. But maybe at that point I will have justified them & no longer consider them wrong.