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Oh, I don't mean to deny the serious problems in the Middle East/some other primarily Muslim countries, or the (different and less dramatic but still very serious) problems in Turkey, just the attitude of people who reduce those issues too religious/political lines and ignore problems in places that "should" be good…

Yes, and very well said!

Although I'm sure some (/many/most?) men who prefer the idea of sex with machines do so because they are such misogynists that they want vaginas without women, or want "women" without any selfhood or interiority, I'm sure that also plenty of men who are into this sort of thing because they are into the idea of…

I want mechanical fish swimming around in the air in my apartment. Again, not for sexual purposes.

Seagull, at least count yourself lucky that your devourer wasn't a pelican.

I guess... I just remember being shocked after going on a school field trip to the waste treatment plant (why did our teachers think this was a good idea?) and seeing this enormous vat that was being combed through for un-disolvable debris, much of which was made up of tampons. Apparently it was pretty expensive to…

Is it a bad sign that what most horrifies me about that scene is the flushing of the tampon? Way to ruin our water supply, Grey.

Orgies might be pushing it too far, what with the extra partners and all.

And hearted back!

But but but... you don't understand. They had Europe to look up to! They had Europe to watch over them! Happy, gender-equal Europe!

Hm - it seems that the craving is contagious.

Last Baroness interjection: Although most women will menstruate at some point in their lives, on any given month only a a minority of females would have done so - women who are pre-pubescent, who have gone through menopause, who are ill or malnourished, or who are pregnant or breastfeeding (in non-agriultural…

Another circumstance where it's useful to have a name for a colour, rather than for a thing that has a particular colour, is when working with pigments and dyes. Because of charcoal and ochre, black, red, and beige were the first, and for a long time the only, paints accessible to humans.

Green is also one of the hardest dyes/paints to make. You can get red paint easily, and people worldwide were using ochre in the Palaeolithic. Green exists in the world, but it's not something that people would ever handle in real life. You can talk about "vegetation" as easily as "blood" to describe the colour of…

Europeans also lacked a word for pink prior to the early Modern period when they made contact with various parts of the rest of the world.

Especially convincing if you consider how many colour names are actually the names of rare goods (orange, turquoise), of dyes (purple, crimson), or of common things that happen to be that colour (e.g. the name colour pink comes from the flower, and not the other way around [[www.etymonline.com]]) etc.

Baroness Obvious retorts: Asides from the first day or so, women's menstrual blood isn't red, and none of the things it stains stay red for very long. If anything, menstruation is brown.

Yes, it's very interesting and strange that we should mark a categorical difference between one colour's more/less saturated appearance, but not for others. Especially since that one difference's import and meaning have been exaggerated more than the difference between many other colours (e.g. yellow vs orange, orange…

There are fixed expressions/multi-character words for pink. The ones I'm familiar with refer to red ( e.g. "powdery red" = pink).