Slightly OT, but Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s labelling by the SPLC was heartbreaking for me.

Yeah, but “they cheated because of their scumbaggery” is an equally pat answer.

Oh, I thought OP meant this story was contributing to that.

I initially read that as “she will be engaged in 2 years to a white woman”, and was surprised at such a specific bisexual prediction.

What’s wrong with not wanting more kids?

Ned didn’t “turn his back” on her father. The Mad King ordered Jon Arryn to hand over Ned and Robert right after murdering Rickard and Brandon Stark.

Pretty small number of wagons to be all the food, right? It is supposed to last them through years of winter.

Qyburn had the skulls to test the scorpion’s strength on, but without a live dragon he’d have know way to know what sort of poison would even affect them.

Yeah, but Arya barely knows anything about Varys.

By the way, is there any evidence of Dany being infertile aside from what that one witch told her? Couldn’t Mirri Maz Duur have just been lying?

I’m not questioning their ability at all. I’m questioning the use of something that could dramatically improve (or in some cases save) their lives as a prop they aren’t allowed to keep.

Sorry, meant that you just don’t like the type of shows that use multicam? Or that a show you like would become less enjoyable just by changing camera setup (just as adding a laugh track would can make a good show worse)?

Is this just some sort of subgenre indicator thing, or does having it be multi cam directly affect your viewing experience negatively?

Can’t speak to FeministCurrent, but /r/GenderCritical has thread after thread of “Peak Trans” anecdotes that are frequently in the spirit of cruelty and mockery rather than any sort of constructive endeavor towards women as a class.

because the rules of reality TV dictate that nothing is off limits, even sexual misconduct allegations.

I meant stuff like this: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/04/study-finds-some-significant-differences-brains-men-and-women

The brain is structurally different on average - hence someone could identify sex by brain at least slightly better than pure chance, even given a wide range of variation within each set. I hope…

Yeah, I still think it’s messed up though. Even having it fully explained, imagine playing a game that involved you taking and having to give back money that might save a sick relative, or just relieve the pain your shitty shoes are giving your feet.

I think there is “male brain” / “female-brain” in the sense that a trained individual could look at thousands of brain scans and identify the sex of the patient with a higher success rate than pure guessing (not sure how much higher).

Not that we’d find evidence of them in particular, but that there was some sort of tool-making or significant agriculture/industry.

And of course the fact that there was no written language or long-term settlement until recently means that Lee’s whole “passing on the best part of ourselves” didn’t pan out.

It wasn’t about getting rid of technology. It was about letting go of the past, letting go of all the hatreds, the preconceptions. It was about starting fresh.