Fair enough: Not everybody will agree that my point of view, my priorities, are right.

Also, you don't know that weight has nothing to do with their character. It might. That's the sticky part of prejudice for a lot of people: they might be right one time, and they feel like that justifies the 99 times they're wrong. It shouldn't and doesn't.

I'm sorry, you may not like to hear it, but there is an accepted order to severity of prejudice. The ADA was important, but suffrage was a bigger deal. And the minority vote (I'd say black, but it extended to all races) was bigger than that. And slavery was bigger than that. In an ideal world, yes, everybody deserves…

I have no idea what you're responding to. I don't see you responding or quoting me on anything so I don't think it's something I said, but rather something you thought I said. I didn't say obese people aren't smart. I did say it's not healthy, sure. That's the definition of obese:

Well... isn't it? Maybe if I had cited this right off the bat:

Well... if you went to grad school and you don't get how I can be so annoyed that we're talking about fat people instead of much deeper issues like gender and race... then I don't think you'll ever understand my point of view.

And you're condescending.

Sure, I do tend to forget that Jezebel's a blog at times. (Like this one.) She wanted to rage a bit about it, she's an author on this blog - so I guess that's her right.

That's nice. One difference: mine's true.

I wish to God I was trolling. I'm a grad student, and I've become pretty disillusioned and bitter. It's sort of the only sane reaction when faced with this every day.

I don't know where to begin, so I'll act like I'm cooking spaghetti and see what sticks:

Yes it is.

That's not true actually. If you sync 1Password with Dropbox, they include an HTML file. If you access that HTML file on any (modern) browser via Dropbox, from anywhere, you can copy and paste your passwords. It's stored in 1Password/1Password.agilekeychain/1Password.html. Then you have two-factor authentication…

I recommend clicker training with doggie treats.

So yeah, it sounds like the landlord's going overboard for sure. It's their responsibility to maintain the place in good repair and that includes plumbing.

So yeah, I've learned that I was wrong, both specifically about what I said, and about generalizing pretty much anything about anybody.

That all sounds about right-on to me. That's exactly what I meant about gender/sex differences being noise - statistically useless even in large populations.

Hey thanks! I was expecting people to give me a rough time so it was okay. Lol, I mean, it's the Internets after all, even if you're on point there's going to be somebody who'll call you out on something they don't like.

And I almost totally ignored your own story. :( One of my best friends kicked all of our butts in high school calc. I competed with her because she was the best, and that was actually the foundation of our friendship. I miss her - she passed away in a motorcycle accident. I found out after that she'd switched to…

Hi! I'm sure you didn't notice, but I've had this conversation about half a dozen times in this thread. What I said just didn't appreciate some (well - almost all) of the nuances, and I've changed my way of thinking about positive stereotypes, these specific ones and in general. As soon as I stereotype somebody, I…