That happens at Research I institutes, to some extent. Many of the university faculty members at the big schools only teach occasionally. The rest of the time they are doing experimental work.

I majored in English for my undergrad. I quickly found that all literature was carefully supported BS, all my lit classes were teaching me was how to produce more carefully supported BS, and while I was good at the BS production I despised it and myself for doing it. I couldn't stomach it. It's a hot mess of group think.

So I focused on technical writing instead, which was a good decision. There are not a lot of ways to BS in a software manual, nor do you really need to.

That was the case for my husband, although he got his PhD in education and not humanities. But he basically wanted to be a professional student. Lucky for him he DID become the outlier and was awarded tenure at his job this year, which he likens to smoking a pack a day and living to be 100.

They did have a free page or two and access to news and weather, but the greater Internet was blocked off. I've spent many hours in that airport over the years and will probably spend many many more. The money I save on this can go for being crazy and paying for on-plane Wifi instead.

If the methodology looked good and the data looked reasonable, it'd pass the initial round of peer review. They don't recreate the experiment as part of the editorial peer review, they just look for things that were overlooked or that don't make sense. It's up to other labs to reproduce the results and subsequently publish their own papers.

Calling someone out as an AC doesn't count. Asshole.

I included both genders for that very reason. We don't have a man problem, or a woman problem. We have an asshole problem.

It's called being a decent human being, and if you're not doing it, then you are no longer "innocent" or the proverbial "nice guy" either. No, you're not responsible for every single interaction around you. Yes, you are responsible for keeping your friends in line when they're doing something stupid or wrong. (That's what friends are for, as the song goes.)

I have dropped friends who were total asshats and refused to listen to my advice on how to stop being total asshats. I can only hope that if enough of their remaining friends drop them for being asshats, they eventually get a clue and stop it.

This whole fiasco has made me realize it's not a man problem, it's an asshole problem. We need to stop enabling assholes of BOTH genders.

I think that gets to the crux of the problem. Somehow he'd picked up the notion that having an expensive car and nice clothes would make him attractive to women who wanted that sort of thing. While I'm sure there are plenty of gold diggers out there that are as obsessed with those things as he was, they're a bit rarer in colleges where women are learning they can get that stuff for themselves, and they're also not looking for guys the same age as them (they want older men who have already established a pattern of financial luck.) He should have been going after cougars, or high school seniors.

You may be innocent, but what have you done to stop it? It's one thing to stick your head in the sand and go "lalala I'm not involved" - it's another thing to actively ignore it when you see it around you.

If you are surrounded by nothing but other totally innocent guys (and girls) who are not assholes to people of the opposite gender and thus have never witnessed someone getting harassed, then you're the luckiest guy on the planet and I wish I had your friend set.

Dude was also a WoW addict. Now, WoW is mainstream enough that it's no longer an activity limited to nerds, but it's also not something mundanes get addicted to.

Creepy is in the eye of the beholder. A good friend of mine thought that the guy I eventually married was "creepy." She also thought that a former manager of ours was creepy, when I thought a different manager at the same business was creepy. Creepy is very much subjective, but the definition is "I am not comfortable engaging in a conversation with you and would not voluntarily choose to do so because you are doing/saying things that frighten me." You can't judge creepy by appearances - Elliot Rodgers was actually kind of cute to my older eyes - but you can immediately get warning bells on your CreepDar as soon as someone moves or opens their mouth.

If you're not calling out guys (and girls) when they are being assholes, then yes, there is something wrong with you. You may personally being the nicest guy on the planet, have a loving girlfriend/wife and a half dozen girls who are jealous of her because you are so great, and take in foster kittens on the side. But if you have a single bro/bitch friend who harasses women (and/or men) and you aren't telling him to cut that shit out, then yes, you ARE part of the "us" in question.

NPR did a story this morning on common core in a poor school. The kids, a bunch of 5th grades, apparently LOVE it. And once the methods they were used were explained to me, I went "duh." Common Core's methods, when applied properly, are teaching these kids how to do math in their heads instead of crippling them by always needing a pencil and paper.

The example problem was 8x14 - you can write it out formally and get the answer in about a minute, or you can break it down as 8x10 (80) + 8x4 (32) and get the answer in about twenty seconds - in your head.