Listen, since you’ve clearly got a lot of time on your hands, feel free to go back through my entire comment history and find me at least one more instance in which I swapped ‘tenant’ for ‘tenet,’ in order to establish “consistent misuse.” Otherwise just accept that you’re a childish pedant who learned some grammar…

Most rules do not have your health in mind. In reality, no one cares about your health. Women are not actually allowed to wear “whatever they want” anywhere outside of nude beaches, and for proof of that, next time you go to the grocery store in Poughkeepsie or whatever bastion of liberty you call home topless with…

I once burned the tops of my feet just going shopping for an hour in sandals. That’s how I learned why Sudanese women wear socks if they’re wearing strappy sandals. I just began to wear sneakers if I was going to be outside for more than 15 minutes at a stretch.

You could have let it go, the way most adults have learned to let go of many minor annoyances as they move about the day, assuming as seems to be the case that you have no informed thoughts about the issue at hand.

Yeah, this I can’t speak to, although I feel like I read an article saying that black clothing is actually no hotter than any other color. I had a few friends there who wore abaya and niqab (the face-covering) as well, and they claimed the one time I asked that wearing it was like air conditioning - it actually kept…

You’re the one who “didn’t want to be that guy,” and then proceeded to be that guy. Let your anxiety on the issue go, you’re clearly unfixable.

Listen, I’ve got people laying their throbbing dicks against the back of my neck for mixing up “tenant” and “tenet” in a post up-thread, and now you want to wave yours in my face over being too specific? It’s almost like most people just want to stroke themselves in public rather than engage in a thought.

Oops, you’re that guy! Enjoy being correct but cretinous!

<whispering gently but urgently> Chiding people for extremely minor issues in spelling and grammar instead of dealing with the content of their statements is proof of a childish mind that understands rules but not manners, and using action tags on your text makes it look like you teleported from LiveJournal 2004,…

It’s not nearly as bad as you’re thinking. I’m a white American, and I lived in Sudan for a bit - which I acknowledge is different from Saudi because there’s no prescribed piece of clothing that you have to wear over your other clothes (you can wear modest “modern” dress - lots of women wear abaya but no one is making…

Just FYI, modest dress for men is also a tenant of Islam, it’s just the ways that different cultures interpret those tenants, and primarily how avidly they’re enforced, that are inconsistent.

“Her outfit violates Saudi Arabia’s strict dress codes for women, which include covering their faces and heads with a black veil.”

Yes. They can do whatever they want with the other properties (Miss Marple could stand a high-quality reboot, IMO) but there is no reason to be remaking any Poirot titles, including Orient Express. David Suchet just finished adapting the final Poirot story a few years ago, and it’s not like anyone’s going to top his…

Just another in a long, long line of actions that white people think makes them look free-spirited and instead makes it look like they never set foot in a schoolroom.

Also, being racist against Roma is just super weird - there’s only about a million of them in the entire United States. Most Americans have never met a person from this group, not that they’d know it if they did. Why even bother stirring up hatred against a group so small the country’s entire population could ride the…

Please. The people playing that game know exactly which is which as soon as they get a peek at the speaker’s skin tone.

That was very much my feeling, but publicly-accessible restrooms are much less a thing in Prague than they are here, and the kid was like 5, so between the diaper-wearing and hold-it-till-we-get-home ages.

Well, a lot of Native Americans call themselves and prefer to be called Indian, I think you’ve gotta roll with the punches as people define themselves, you know? I think you call individual people what they ask you to call them, and the word for the people generally has pretty conclusively settled on Roma/Romani, or…

Two years ago a new hire at my company got really loudly indignant in public in the lunchroom because her roommate had bought an “Indian” outfit to wear to her office’s Halloween party, and then her boss heard about it and told her she couldn’t wear it. In 2015.

It equally doesn’t mean they’re “economic migrants,” so how about you get your shit together before you start putting your dick all over the capslock at me.