I am gonna slap the damn taste outta your mouth…

Snowflake students claim Frankenstein’s monster was ‘misunderstood’ — and is in fact a VICTIM

English author Mary Shelley’s classic novel Frankenstein has terrified millions since it was first published in 1818.

In it, scientist Victor Frankenstein’s monster gets snubbed by society and then murders his creator’s brother, pal and bride. But an academic has revealed growing support for the beast in the introduction to a 200th anniversary edition of the book.

Prof Nick Groom, of Exeter University, said: “When I teach the book now, students are very sentimental towards the being. But he is a mass murderer.”

He then asked: “If he’s not human, but he is intelligent and sentient, does he have rights?”Mary Shelley expert Professor David Punter, of Bristol University, said: “It’s a familiar story isn’t it, someone with a terrible upbringing going on to commit terrible crimes.

“The monster does deserve sympathy.

“I don’t believe he would qualify as human and I’m not sure he would qualify under any kind of animal rights regulations either. I think the poor chap would rather fall in between two stools.”

I know this is just a stupid clickbait article by The Sun, a newspaper so worthless I wouldn’t even recycle it into tampons for sewer rats, but this pisses me off. Of course The Creature is a victim. He didn’t ask to be created, he didn’t ask to be the hideous product of a flawed god’s experiment. He was ripped from the sweet nothingness of nonexistence and abandoned in a world that would hate and fear him forever. In pain and anger, he demands a mate from his Creator, vowing to vanish in the wilds of South America. When Victor refuses, The Creature begins to kill his family to pressure him to comply. It is a morally bad choice from a being with no other legal recourse and the Creature even eventually kills himself out of remorse. Kiss my chocolate snowflake, Sun.

McDonald’s flips iconic sign in a show of solidarity for beleaguered producer Harvey Weinstein

People driving by a McDonald’s in Lynwood, California, might be baffled by an upside-down sign. The golden arches, typically standing as an M, have been flipped over to become a W.

But this isn’t a bizarre prank or a careless mistake. The upside-down arches are in “celebration of women everywhere,” a McDonald’s representative told Business Insider in an email.

Patricia Williams, the location’s franchisee, flipped her restaurant’s sign in honor of International Women’s Day on Thursday.

McDonald’s says it will turn its logo upside down on all its digital channels, such as Twitter and Instagram, on Thursday, while 100 restaurants will have special “packaging, crew shirts and hats, and bag stuffers” to celebrate.

Judge rules Seattle homeless man’s truck is a home

Steven Long returned from his job cleaning up CenturyLink Field after a Seattle Sounders’ game when he discovered that home was gone.

He had been living in his 2000 GMC pickup, parked on a side street, but the city of Seattle towed it because Long had violated a city rule that requires vehicles be moved every 72 hours.

That impound set up an unusual court ruling Friday that advocates for homeless people and the city both say could have broad implications on the crisis of homelessness.

King County Superior Court Judge Catherine Shaffer ruled that the city’s impoundment of Long’s truck violated the state’s homestead act — a frontier-era law that protects properties from forced sale — because he was using it as a home. Long’s vehicle was slated to be sold had he not entered into a monthly payment plan with the city.

Shaffer also ruled the fees the city required Long, 58, to pay to retrieve the truck were too high, violating constitutional protections against excessive fines.

How to Date a Woman Who Has Only Dated Assholes

You know the story: Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love. Girl has no idea how to accept the love because she’s only dated assholes her entire life. Years of social conditioning are at work. Maybe her dad was an asshole, maybe her mom married one. She’s been told “when a boy is mean to you, it means he likes you” since her earliest days on the playground. Social psychology and evolutionary biology are playing themselves out as some studies suggest that women are attracted to men who exhibit certain traits — specifically narcissism, Machiavellianism and psychopathy — in short-term mates. You can chalk it up to a myriad of intersecting factors like bad role models, poor choices, self-esteem issues, shame, trauma and trust issues that feed the self-destructive cycle, like Ouroboros, the snake forever eating its own tail.

As a woman very familiar with the cycle (and assholes), I’m here to assure you that cracking open the cage around her tiny, Grinch-like heart isn’t impossible. But there are some things I want you to know about the process. If she’s worth it, you’ll be willing to do what it takes. If you’re already thinking, “No thanks, too much work,” you might be right — or you might be an asshole. Anyway, if you’re still up for giving it a shot, here’s what to keep in mind…

I think a lot of it hinges on how many assholes she’s dated. One asshole? Almost everyone dates at least one asshole. Two assholes? Hey, things happen, people misrepresent themselves. Three assholes… maybe she just likes assholes. Everyone she ever dated is an asshole? Run. Either she has an asshole fetish or she thinks anyone who breaks up with her is an asshole. (And this goes for the ladies as well… If every woman he’s every dated is crazy, then he’ll the problem, I imagine. (Or the unluckiest person ever, so still get away because lightning is coming for he or she or ne or xe or ner or whatever.))

Doomsday Clock Physicist Moves the Minute Hand Closer to Groping You

The shining star that was cosmologist and theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss’ long-spanning career continues to dim in the wake of allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior, first reported by BuzzFeed News last month.

On Monday, the Center for Inquiry—perhaps the most prominent skeptic and humanist association in the US—severed its relationship with Krauss, who has frequently been a guest speaker at its events and served as a honorary member on its board of directors since 2011. Via a solitary tweet, the CFI linked to its zero tolerance sexual harassment policy, then said, “Serious allegations have been raised regarding Lawrence Krauss, and we suspend our association with him pending further information.”

His sexual advances were described as up, down, strange, top, bottom, and–to some–charming.