re: #279 wrenchwench

Bad analogy.

Not at all.

internet-famous nerd magnet attends conference, stays out partying among fellow nerds until 4am.

Socially awkward nerd gets up enough courage to ask Nerd Magnet if she’d like to have some coffee and continue to discuss nerd things.

Nerd magnet declines, and that is that.

BUT LATER, nerd magnet posts a video implying that this is some sort of horribly creepy behavior.

Phil Plait, who is smart enough to know better, insists that this was very nearly a forcible rape, and that men shouldn’t dare to talk to women, because it might make them scared.

INEXPLICABLY, A SHIT-TON OF PEOPLE AGREE. Yes, all men are Ted Bundy just waiting for the street light to go dark, and all women are delicate little unicorn feathers who exist for no other reason than to be raped by savage men who Just Don’t Get It.

What the fuck is wrong with you people, and don’t you have a debt ceiling thing to vote on?