Well... "one guy" who is "a UCLA geneticist who has worked with the International Olympic Committee." So it seems he's qualified to have an opinion here... But what studies conflict with this?

Doesn't the article say that due to the treatment she's recieved, she doesn't have any more testosterone than most cis women?

I don't see what's bad about this. It's cheesy marketing — but there's nothing new about that. I think it's pretty great to see a company with such a very traditionally "masculine" product recognize that they have female customers as well, and present them in a positive light. There's plenty of companies that just…

Really, though, I for one wouldn't mind seeing more strong-female-characters in the "punch the door into toothpicks" sense, either. There's more of them around than in the past, sure, but it's not exactly a glut — actual physical action-heroics are still very much a predominantly male domain, and I like to see that…

Okay... What does this have to do with the article? What point are you trying to make? That it's wrong for women in China to have the same career opportunities as men? That companies refusing to hire women is a-ok? Or what? Because that's the stuff that the article is actually about. Can't find anything about hating…

That's both interesting and very inspiring — but are you saying that this article is actually untrue? Because if it is factually correct that companies in China do, indeed, only hire men for certain positions, and that this limits work and career opportunities for female grads, then that seems like a pretty genuine…

Okay. No, I do not want all sexualization removed from entertainment, and yes, some sexualization is okay, and no, I do not want all movies rated G.

Sigh. There's a difference between disliking a particular way in which sexuality is portrayed, or a particular context in which it's shown, and disliking sexuality in general. I'd write more, but look: I feel my first comment was a bit more complex than just "I don't like slave girl Leia beause she's sexy," and if…

How you got "take sex out of media" from my comment, I do not know. Maybe you meant to reply to someone else? Otherwise, please elaborate.

Doesn't this kind of miss the point? Yes, Leia is awesome and butt-kick-ey, but don't you think it's still problematic that 1) she's about the only major female character in Star Wars in the first place (except I guess that one other princess in those prequels that never happened, dammit), 2) she gets sexualized way…

To echo what others have said, procedural environments can get boring fairly quickly because you know there's no "story" behind them. In Minecraft, if I find a mysterious island in the middle of the ocean, I know there's no purpose or plot behind it. It's just a bunch of random voxels, placed there by a digital roll…

"That bill is pretty innocuous — it requires drivers to move to the left lane on the highway to avoid maintenance vehicles on the side of the road. But the bill came with a rider that, if passed, would prevent "a manufacturer or a subsidiary, parent, or affiliated entity of a manufacturer" from selling a vehicle in…

Er, yes, that does make them bad. Killing intelligent beings because you perceive their very existence as a threat is pretty definitely evil. The fact that their sapience was a potential economic and social crisis doesn't justify genocide.

All of these problems can be overcome. When I was talking about the relative position of stars, I didn't mean the view from Earth; I meant an actual 3D model of where they actually are, relative to each other. We do have ways of estimating how far different stars are from us, so we are not limited to imagining them…

Well, given that both scientists emphasize that ETIs would need extensive knowledge of our computer systems to infect us with a virus, this may be one of those question-headlines where the answer is simply "no". :P

Nothing compared to drivers in the city...

Note to self: Never travel anywhere.

Um. I don't think a movie about a weak, vulnerable woman sounds especially feminist, actually. And there isn't exactly a glut of female action heroes out there. We still have Hollywood people talking about how no-one wants to watch films about female heroes.

The Starbound clip makes me wonder: Why is it that in space games, travel between remote destinations — wormholes, "jumps", whatever you call it — is never interesting? I mean, that animation looks very nice, but it's not exactly thrilling game-play. And in most games it's just instantaneous — you fly into a "gate" or…

Well, the discussion *was* going on here — but you've stumbled on comments from a year ago. :P But I agree with your points. I think there's a lot less continuity to our selves than we like to believe. It's difficult to think about, but philosophical questions like this may become very practical and urgent someday. Or…