I posted this as a reply to someone in the last article, but the comments were a bit better there. I don't want to paste it as a million different replies here, so I'm going to post it once as its own comment (and probably on every pony article until people get the idea). Here is what the creator of the show, Lauren…

I don't get the appeal of the show, but the amount of hateful comments here is pretty disheartening. People like different things, it isn't hard to understand.

The length and excitement of this article scares me. Why is this a thing? If I liked Barbie people would think I'm a bit off...this is not normal , and this is coming from a guy who regularily calls himself Jennifer to people online.

The Splendid Table article up there has this amazing image in it that sums up your point nicely:

Hah - that's a fair point. I don't mind people using their phone if they're looking something up, or if there's something they want to show me, but yeah - staring at your phone while "actively" in conversation with someone is kind of a downer.

Under the First, You Have to Show Up section, it might be good to include:

The same people "borrow" your buffers, because they know yours are a sure thing. :D So it doesn't matter. There's a nice trick I have for precise manual operations: doing them in the morning, before you got hungry, and before you have eaten, or in the late evening, after you have digested what you ate. Hands are much…

Oh, I was a disaster at an early learning stage, so much I almost dropped science. Everything they showed me, I had to invent anew. Also, people saw me working and thought "there's something profoundly wrong with the way she's working", never realizing what exactly (people never notice until you tell them). Still an…

I work in a lab. As a researcher. Surprisingly, most companies realizes now that lefties do research, too, but ocassionally I had to use asymetric pipettes, I don't even mention the more elaborated setups. I worked in a hospital as a research assistant before my PhD, and these are extremely bureaucratic places. We…

Yes, I know. I am a colour blind woman and have explain that many times.

I found out I was color blind during a graduate level university course. I suspected for some time.

I'm also red-green color deficient, and that really is the term you should use with people if you're discussing your color vision. (Technically, I'm a deuteranomalous trichromat, but people start looking for exits when you say such things.) When you say "color blind," people hear "blind to color," which is a perfectly…

Ugh, don't forget Bust A Move! I don't know how many quarters I wasted as a kid losing at Bust A Move not understanding what I was doing wrong. "What the HELL, that's three yellow bubbles together, why didn't they pop?!" It didn't occur to me until I was older, after being diagnosed, that I was the problem. Luckily,…

I am left-handed. Games with non-customizable keyboard and/or console are simply unplayable. My performance in GW2 is strongly affected by my inability to switch to WSAD - I use arrows, since the left hand is on the mouse, and I can't customise the other functions. It's a good game, but it ignores 10-15% of…

I was wondering if I was going to get a comment like this. You get the gold star!

(for red-green colorblindness)

Err, what do you think the hippy gen was reacting to? could it be the same bullshit that has been fucking us all?

I agree that things need to change. I think the point is, instead of bitching about how bad things are, stop complaining and do something. When we couldn't find jobs, we made them. We didn't complain, give up, or cry, we sold shit out of our garages until we had full blown businesses and hired our friends etc. …

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