I believe censoredvoices is saying that the flight of the first woman in space is no more interesting than the incorporation of IBM and Oracle, and that there shouldn't be articles written about it, I guess.

This. The idea of giving these cadets a "free pass" seems like it's still rooted in the idea that the military is a man thing for manly men who are male, and women don't exist in this world.

Hmm. So we should hold people who are issued guns and put in high-stress live-or-die situations lower standards of behaviour than the rest of us? Geeze. Didn't the military use to be about, like, discipline? I mean, I dunno, I admit I was never in the military, but I always assumed discipline and will power and other…

Thanks. :)

I agree. It's an attempt to be progressive that ends up horribly back-firing, being a total slap in the face to trans men. The original image on the right just reads as a cutesy, irrelevant list of stuff people say about manhood. It's annoying because of its old-fashioned hetero-normativity, but it's also easily…

Culture is important, fascinating, interesting, and a part of who we are. But it should never take precedence over an innocent person's freedom to be themselves, especially when the way they want to express themselves hurts no-one. I'm not a relativist, so I'd say that a culture that accommodates individual…

"An evolutionary psychologist..."

"Where I come from..."

I know we're supposed to believe that rich people are rich because of all their Hard Work, but some of them just seem to have way, way too much free time on their hands...

The logic of going after someone who is advertising your product for free absolutely baffles me. Well, I suppose it would make sense if they advertised your product in an offensive way or something, but I don't think that was the case here...

Yeah, I kind of failed to read the name "PatriarchyForever" before posting my earlier reply. :P

"Since we can't eliminate rape or any other crime, the only thing you can do is get potential victims to take precautions."

"If you can't help doing stupid things when you're drunk..." Like forcing yourself sexually on people who aren't interested? Why aren't there public officials telling men not to drink, lest the alcohol turn them into annoying — or much worse — sexual pests?

There's also the fact that it seems every time a public official (in almost any country!) opens their mouth to say anything about rape, it'll be some comment about how women dress, or how they drink, or something else like that. There seems to be a persistent *pattern* of telling women what they should and shouldn't…

Well, if this man didn't want to get smacked, he should have stayed at home, clearly.

Well, rape culture isn't necessarily all about bad intentions, either. It's entirely possible for someone to give genuinely well-meaning advice — but for that advice to be based on a set of assumptions and perspectives that are rooted in a sexist culture that accepts rape as normal, and then the advice becomes a part…

This is interesting because it's not what most people would expect from this — or almost any other — organized religion, but on the other hand "the exception that proves the rule" is the phrase that comes to mind for me.

Why not just use the (free and quite good) VLC media player? VLC is what I use to play most of my videos anyway, and it has a built-in ability to rip from DVDs with very little fuss. (Well, alright, the first time around it's easy to get a bit confused by the various menu options involved, but it only takes a few…

Too soon!

So America's system is way better than Canada's... But every single number and statistic you can dig up about the status of health in the two countries says that Canada does about a bajillion times better than America when it comes to the health of its citizens.