You could always move in eight directions, you just had to hit two keys at once.

This is exactly what I was wondering. I guess we'll see once we can see the back of this thing!

I actually worked my way up to being the first non-staff Forum Administrator (They called me Commissioner) at a website who implemented a system like this. Shocking considering that meltdown I still need to apologize for, I know.

The solution needs to be the ability to turn Burner comments on and off. This preserves the burner function for when and where it's needed, while ensuring that it can still be used for its intended use. There are plenty of other outlets for people to try to get in touch with Gawker Media properties in the event of…

That moment you click the article just to make sure this isn't anyone you know. Sigh.

I do not define straight as "not gay". My society does. Trying to "reclaim" the word doesn't work because of its origins, much as I cannot "reclaim" many hurtful transgender epithets and insults, because there's nothing good there. When a culture imports words, that's a bit different, but by saying "straight" in the…

I was merely troubled by the exclusionary thinking, wen the issue is that there's a lot of the same discrimination and basis for it against bisexual people. We're all basically staring down the same stuff being thrown at us.

Rule of thumb when dealing with my ridicule: You could safely bet the bank that I'm mocking society, and if you were wrong on that bet you could probably make your money back in a few minutes.

Well, thanks, I think? If you hover your mouse over the top right corner, a little arrow will appear that will allow you to edit your post during something like a 15 minute window.

Really? I'm pretty sure bisexual people are treated as if their being bisexual is a conscious choice and that they can just make it go away with they want. I'm also pretty sure they have to deal with people pretending or even believing that they don't exist; have to deal with self-hate, self denial, or living in the…

I'll rephrase the race thing: The US is only just getting away from treating "color", "race", and "ethnicity" as wholly interchangeable. I rail against this as best as I can here, and argue in favour of what you inform me is a more Canada-like system. A lot of this is caught up in the Red Scare - something I am loathe…

Absolutely. I am a LexiCop from the Lexicontrol Audits division. I'm always on the awareness beat.

Going out to the local pharmacy counter for a wholesome malt while your swell gal is chaperoned by a possessive male family member?

...Or kids who don't know the difference between "games" and "what we're doing is stupid and dangerous", for that matter! I know college students who can't seem to wrap their minds around "safe, sane, and consensual" due to a nasty combination of this kind of anti-education crap and the stuff they sought out on tumblr…

BRB, clutching pearls and pretending puberty hasn't happened to these pure, delicate, innocent children yet. So pure, how could our young children at the tender ages of fully developing sexual capacity possibly be involved with anything as nasty, evil, dirty, and lurid as sex?!

Oh, goodness. Please tolerate my nerd hat for a moment so that I might make a point with the following phrases: Kadir beneath Mo Moteh. The beast at Tanagra. Picard and Dathon at El-Adrel.

For one, it is an argument for diversity to eliminate a label that has no basis on anything other than pale skin = same, especially given that the label's eventual purpose was about reinforcing a false binary. There is no commonality created only by melanin levels. You can read the old racial categories for the US…

It's an interesting thought, to be sure. My own dysphoria over...parts mostly stems from the way that other people react, so it's entirely possible that you'll continue to treat it all as an afterthought as long as your interactions with other people stay more or less the same. The feelings towards reproductive…

OK, this is about the only one that I can understand.

It turns out a lot of people get misdiagnosed with the psychiatric disorders when they actually have excessive daytime sleepiness or even narcolepsy. Golly gee, those stimulants improve symptoms because they're keeping the patients awake!