Girl: "Mom, I want to wear this."
Mom: "Those shorts are slutty."

Please don't tell me teenagers possess the sophistication NOT to hear "I'm a slut" when told "That looks slutty." This is a parent holding something up and saying: "Sluts wear this." Meaning: "If you don't want to be a slut, DON'T DRESS LIKE THAT.

My favorite: "I can't pretend to be someone who makes $25,000 a year."

Except when it isn't. I agree with you that a cat panting is *generally* a cat in distress. But I've seen cats pant when excited, nervous, or after serious playing. Most cats, if stuck in blinds and genuinely unhappy about it, have a OH SHIT I'M STUCK IN BLINDS FLAIL WITH ALL THE POINTY PARTS response.

I agree with you that the kid died because he underestimated the difficulty of surviving in the wild. The stupidity was in the naiveté of his choice. But the fact is, the mechanism that killed him went unrecognized by scientists for nearly 20 years.

"Thermostats of morality."

Ahh. I understand the distinction you are drawing now.

So let's ignore the garbage.

Why does that put you on the tenants side? For that matter, who are you to decide she should've known better?

I'm not sure it's that simple. True, women are not as systemically oppressed by athleticism — but athleticism is still very much intertwined with beauty. You won't find many ugly athletes — even the less attractive tend to be average.

Let me say this first: I agree that beauty pageants are currently and fundamentally about public appraisal of female beauty. And that's wrong for the reasons you and others have capably laid out.

I don't think you get it. It's not something you adopt because you're showing respect to someone older than you.

As a 34-year old feminist straight male?

You know what happens in the system you describe? Only rich people get internships. Because only the very wealthy (or more accurately, those with very wealthy parents) can afford to work for free.

A GTX 780M is the highest-end laptop GPU you can buy.

You're exactly wrong.

That's exactly when it should be employed. You tase someone resisting because resisting can easily become extremely violent. Like, grabbing the cop's gun violent.

So let's talk about that.

Dumping huge amounts of ash across the Midwest sterilizes it. It creates enormous fine-grained particulates that are extremely destructive to the lungs. Masks become the in-vogue wear for..pretty much everyone.

I have just experienced emotional whiplash.

The Asari do NOT incorporate genetic material from other races. This is a misconception that the series actually addresses head on.

You're so...I could just put you in my pocket.