Not sure if you've ever lived in Japan, but I have, and a night at a capsule hotel is much, much cheaper than cab fare if you live more than 20-30 minutes away. It's bonkers but true.

As a microbiologist I’ve been trying to get people to stop using that shit for years, but I think I finally gave up a little while back. Yay, FDA!

It's not semantics: it is a burden, by the definition of the word. Because it's something you do out of love doesn't make it less difficult or time-consuming (though it may reduce the emotional cost somewhat), nor is it less of an opportunity cost for younger adults of working age, who frequently have children of…

I’d like to think that the rest of us would have talked my mother into that solution eventually, but the terminal cancer came first.

It's unpaid labour. Yes, it is a burden. A financial, emotional, and physical burden. It's a burden many gladly choose to undertake out of love for their parents, true, but calling it anything else is delusional.

This was legit the only thing I missed when I switched to dry suits.

Can confirm that 100% of female competitive swimmers do this also.

This is something I really should do with my brothers, because the one who could help the most probably won't (and I don't blame him - he has a terrible relationship with them as a result of them passively tolerating abuse from another family member and they've done absolutely nothing to make amends since, but he is a…

My grandmother did some thing similar to my mother. Never lived in the same city for her entire adult life, spent far more time, money, affection, and resources on her brothers, but moved out here to “spend more time with her daughter” (read: exploit her for free home care because her brothers sure fucking wouldn’t do…

He's a doctor but ok I must have

He can stay pressed, I guess. Not only is her technique noticably different from her competitors', she's not even really that ripped, which tends to be the other telltale doping sign. Most of her competitors are more muscular.

Eh, she might by ignorant people, but when you look at her technique, it's essentially flawless. Every single stroke is perfect, from the first lap to the last. She doesn't have a raw power/inhuman endurance that the other athletes seem to lack in spite of their almost identical training (which is pretty much case…

Most of the survivors were twisted and deformed into so-called jokers, cursed with mental or physical disabilities. The remaining few, as Martin put it, “became blessed with extraordinary and unpredictable powers and became aces.”

I had more conventional girls’ toys shoved at me too, but I was allowed to get boys’ toys provided it was the “girl” version (i.e. Jinx, the Pink/Yellow Ranger, She-Ra, any of the female X-Men, etc.) In the case of GI Joe I didn’t mind, who wouldn’t want to be the red ninja.

The 90s? Hah, I shit you not, one of my coworkers - a female scientist, no less - in the year of our lord 20-and goddamned-02, told me that "a woman will never be president." Because, she declared, without a single shred of evidence, "women don't have enough charisma to be powerful leaders" and "men won't follow…

But what about Jinx and the Baroness? I was always Jinx. I loved Jinx, so I didn't mind. (This is when I realize belatedly that with 4 main female characters, GI Joe had 3 more than most of the other "boys" shows I watched as a kid.)

Other people have pointed it out already, I know, but it really does read like you're being deliberately obtuse about his overall message by electing to take his "next village" phrasing literally. The instant availability of live footage from anywhere in the world is not like receiving weeks old footage from the front…

I'd take Gruff Warrior Woman #3 over "hooker with a heart of gold who needs the protagonist to save her with his love" any day of the week, myself. I mean, Gruff Warrior Dude #300,000,000 is the star of half the action franchises out there, I think a little turnabout is fair play.

Personally I was way too busy complaining about his shitty treatment of race (i.e. out-and-out Asian erasure whilst cribbing liberally from Chinese culture) to complain about Firefly from a feminist perspective. But for real though, as a teen girl at the time, Inara was the diametric opposite of empowering. As were…

That þ is a “th” in English (if I’m not mistaken that’s how the sound was written in Old English as well) and the ó is pronounced like the “o” in “Thor” of Norse Mythology/Marvel Comics fame.