No, that guys can't trust that their partners will take care of the birth control and have to take their own protective measures.

Oh, I know that, and I think another friend is partially responsible for dating her while he was in charge of her workshop and therefore responsible for a bit of her grade. (This happened while she was a freshie.)I know two other girls in her class and neither of them have her issues; they're also both slightly bitchy, whereas this girl is a doormat. I don't really relate to her either 'cause most guys treat me as one of the boys.

It's slightly different for guys 'cause it's unlikely he'll get hit on by half the people he asks for help (or all the help he gets will be half flirting. ) Also this dude was macho, so he probably just took a "cool, chicks" mentality, same as many of the guys I know taking psych. Even being treated as one of the guys, it can be awkward to be the only girl in the class. I've been taking compsci classes since high school, and was still kind of thrown off when I was the only girl in a college class 'cause the other two ditched. Professor's automatically remember you, which makes guys think you have an unfair advantage. And there are the professors who are rumored to go easy on the girls, and it's just a pain. Most of the guys I know respect the girls in the major, (who come in the same flavors as the guys: awesome and totally incompetent-though I only know one incompetent girl and a few awesome ones) but there are always the idiots you're stuck working with who think it's chivalrous to do all the work for you.

Actually she's left with me tutoring her out of pity and conning my labmates into tutoring her when I can't remember how to solve something.

Well actually they are: it's engineering, where everyone helps everyone else. I never had trouble getting help from a guy, but I almost never get hit on (and never by a schoolmate). I think that might be what bothers her, that she can't get basic help (though she can-this is mostly in her head, but I get why this type of environment encourages her to dream this scenario up.)

a) It's not about pushing girls in engineering, it's about recruiting more into the field so there's more than one girl in the class, 'cause that's hard to deal with at 18 (or younger.) I've been there, and have a friend there now, and she's totally intimidated and currently convinced that most of the guys who try to help her out are hitting on her. (Doesn't help that she's cute.) It's also 'cause other countries (like India, Russia, or China) don't have the disparities the US does, indicating that it's a social, not biological, issue. (Hence part of the annoyance at Summer's remark)

b) If you're a guy and a teacher, they'll snap you up instantly 'cause they want you for inner city schools. I've seen recruitment offers and scholarships for just that reason. Male nurses are sought after for the physical strength. Law becoming female dominated is a relatively new phenom, but give it a few years and there might be more of a push to get guys-probably not though 'cause it's not a field where one gender could provide much of a benefit over another.

This is starting to change-past couple of years had more books on the subject, and Time even did an issue on it. It'll take time and advocacy and lobbing, but it's starting to happen 'cause the gender disparity is growing alarmingly on the college level. But yes, major attitude shifts and policy changes take time; women got the vote in 1919, but were tied down by gender roles for another 40 years, and started making educational strides after that. Give it a couple of years and it may equalize-we're already seeing shifts in care giving and other domestic responsibilities, and we'll probably see shifts in jobs too.

Look, I agree that guys get the short end of the stick because of politics and the media and that it's not fair, but I also don't think most women are ignoring it (at least maliciously-they could just be focused on the stuff that affects them directly). There's also history at play here: before the 19th century woman's rights were a funky set of rules based on class and location and usually fathers and husbands, and it still works that way for vast swaths of the world. So yes, guys get screwed over because of what happened a hundred years ago or across the globe, and it's totally unfair, but dude let girl's have 40 years.

If he doesn't want a kid that badly, he should at the least take every precaution to avoid having one. If he doesn't want to go celibate or get a visectomy, then he should at the least use a condom. Otherwise, he just didn't try hard enough to prevent it and he should be held responsible for the consequences of his irresponsible actions. Yeah he should trust his girl and all, but if he's that opposed to a kid with her, well he should try extra hard.

Nopes. The op makes it sound like male victimization not being taken seriously is some screwed up female conspiracy, when the actual reasons have a lot more to do with guys not taking male victimization seriously because of their own messed up views on what it means to be a guy. Basically, guy's often don't report abuse because of other guys, not 'cause of girls.

Don't totally disagree with you here, though it depends a bit on the field and women involved. Look, being a girl, I really do know way more about the torture females inflict on each other then I ever wanted to.

Though society is partially responsible for the idea that it's not "manly" for a guy to be the primary caregiver or stay at home dad, so many generations just didn't have that wide a pool to choose from when looking for someone they could raise the kid with. Granted, this has changed a lot in the past 30? years, as the number of women in the workforce increased and child rearing tasks had to be more equally distributed.

I assume that you were going for funny, but from tfs:

and from tfa:

Actually, guys do it to themselves by underreporting abuse because it doesn't fit with the traditional notions of gender, (citations at bottom), though I agree the numbers probably are equal, and may even be higher for boys because of the expectation that they won't report it.

Most police are male, so honestly this is another of those cases where it has to do with guys own expectations of other guys.

In cases of having the kid, I only agree with you if the guy wore a condom and did everything in his power to prevent pregnancy. In cases of aborting the kid, only if the guy legally obligates himself to raising and supporting the kid. Yes, the woman gets more say 'cause it's her body, so forcing her to either abort or give birth to a kid she doesn't want is a violation of her rights over her own body. That's just a matter of how the universe assigned biological functions.

Both genders are at fault here. Women drive each other crazy in part because men keep making it matter. Granted, even if men didn't care, women would still fight over looks, but men are still a big part of the picture. I've got friends in a religious community-the major reason they get drama about looks is 'cause of marriage. Hell, a bunch of comments on this thread basically say "me want hawt girl."

Open white space frequencies are part of American slashdot users rights, so a proposal for a db that contains data on who is using that falls into the rights category. (Or 'cause yro is a bit of a catch all catagory.)

Same with housing, at least in New York Cty. It's almost all shady brokerage firms (one was a total bait and switch job) that neglect key details, such as addresses, in their listings. Trying to find something near school when the neighborhood option for craiglist encompasses about 40-60 blocks on the west side is some what fruitless. I love craigslist in theory, but sometimes I wish the rules were a bit stiffer.

Do you know how unmanageable that would be? These datasets tend to be quite big, so usually looking at all of it isn't feasible unless you're already working with the data (or at the least climate) anyway (which many of the peer reviewers are) or the work is more generalized so the algorithms can be verified on other data sets. The data is also complete nonsense if you don't know what you're looking at, which is why lots of the work is collaborative between climate and comp scientists/engineers/etc. As for programing language-if you're not a good coder/don't understand the langauge, it serves no purpose to see it, though much of it is publicly available. So long as you disclose the method and algorithm, the results should be reproducible. On the flip side, a lot of it is publicly available, including how to work with/read this data and how the models are constructed, if you have the time and resources.

It's also written, along with all the power info, on the power brick/charger if anyone wants to double check. Ebays a great place to buy adapters, and so is any semi-sketchy electronics shop.

But be careful with those. I took out the electricity in half an apartment in Russia 'cause I didn't check the strip for voltages and tried running it off an adapter. My converter overheated several times trying to power it, (and my laptop, which is how I found out about the adapters in the first place).

I've never had airport security ask me anything about my laptop, and my brother's never been stopped either.

I sometimes think it takes a certain level of psychosis to get through the degree. That being said, I haven't found religion to be an obstruction for myself or many of my classmates. I think the op's cranky 'cause he can't reconcile the two and thinks everyone else is limited by his lack of flexibility and imagination.

But they do need to eat, so at the very least they're spending as much on food as the poorest people in the community, and many kids are probably spending more. Then there are incidentals like toiletries, clothes, and linens-stuff that can be bought at home but is just as likely to be bought in town for a number of reasons. Plus municipal services like public transportation and the average student likely isn't contributing any less then the average person in one of the lower income brackets (and possibly middle income brackets.) And, most of the kids I knew who didn't get decent allowances from their parents worked some sort of job and pay taxes on that, or have a fellowship (on which either the organization or student pays taxes.)