I don't think it makes you sound like an asshole. Part of male privilege is the semi-conscious belief that men are the arbiters of reality. Rationally, many men know that women have different experiences than they do but just as many believe, deep down, that they'd handle those experiences better. It wouldn't bother…

It's still really shitty and I think most people wouldn't want to give them their business.

Humoring a child's request and then making it part of a larger discussion about media is not emasculation or perverted. There are plenty of arguments to be made for or against gender-swapping in literature, and they are represented elsewhere in the comments, but that is not one of them. Whipping out neo-Nazi…

So, not only did you not read the article, because you don't seem to understand why the author gender-swapped Bilbo in the first place at her daughter's request and how it created the ensuing thought experiment, but then you pull out gems like "neo-nazi feminist BS" and "perverted image of gender equality." Hoo boy.…

Your kidding right?

Because little girls deserve to put themselves in the place of the hero(ine), not just sidekicks and love interests.

I know! It's, like, sooooo, like, weird that different situations are different.

It's just contingent on the wishes of the family, isn't it? In the case of the girl, her family wants her to remain on life support and is ostensibly willing to shoulder the costs. In this case, the family wants her off life support, because they knew her wishes prior to her death.

I think it's pretty clear that this…

As someone who lives in a country with free health care, situations like these is why I just can't understand what goes through many conservative Americans minds. They rail against things like socialized medicine and claim that they would lead to things like death panels and a big brother like government making…

This is kind of how I feel when I come across the "female doctor" debate.

The bidding would have gone well beyond 7k....and I would have won!!!

They were thinking all comic readers are pasty virgins who need every female character represented as nothing more than jerk-off material and will buy anything prominently featuring gratuitous tits and ass, mostly because Jim Lee has successfully turned DC into Image Comics, circa '95.

The sexiest part is when she strangles the gross dude who makes her dress in that outfit, though.

(I know his name is Jabba the Hutt.))

Please - as if there was any contest. . . .

I think the fact that she started out by ordering native craftspeople to produce what she wanted and selling them at a profit was.... maybe an early indicator that she wasn't going to be the worlds greatest employer. :/

So it's difficult to draw many conclusions about how early human women might have behaved 50,000 years ago based on how they behave today.

Also, claiming that statistics = science.

Really? Because I'm Dominican and I've been casually called racial epithets by Salvadoreans to my face as well as constantly hearing Dominicans talking about marrying lighter people "para mejorar la raza". Racism in Latinos takes on a different form, it's a lot more self hate, trying to only identify with our European…

You know the old saying, though...