Wait - I don't know the gay horse joke! Is it offensive if you tell it as, like, an educational aid? Or does it require some kind of specific intonation? I'm scared of googling "Gay Horse Joke".

American teeth freak me out a little. They all look too white and too even, like they're not really human or something. And they confuse "straight and white" for "healthy and strong" - US dental stats are way scarier than any comparable country, they just value cosmetics above real dental health.

The problem is that we treat no other physical traits in this way. Should we ban especially tall people from high jump because of their obvious advantages? Should Phelps be disqualified because his unique physical traits give him an advantage that other swimmers will never have? Lots of top athletes have physical or…

The TV show Orphan Black might not pass. I'm trying to think when two men talk to each other about something other than clones/women. There are definitely a lot of episodes that wouldn't pass. Such a good show.

While I have some general issues with some of what you say, the point is that you can't measure those phenomenon until you level the playing field. I recommend listening to Neil deGrasse Tyson's response to a question about women and visible minorities in the sciences, and also reading Delusions of Gender, which…

He probably got the call and was like "Yeah sure 12 foot python, more like 12 inch garter snake. Ugh." and just grabbed the bag. I bet everyone exaggerates their problem so a GIANT PYTHON IN MY BATHROOM is usually a rat snake or something.

I'm from New Zealand and I go to the cinema to watch a film... I didn't know it was weird. :/

I'll be in my bunk.

I love Valley of the Dolls so much. It's so good! How could they love Eat, Pray, Barf and not love Valley of the Dolls?!? We should start a Jezebel book club. I refuse to hate-read, though. Life is too short.

Hey, Rowling's fortune is not victimless! She exploited my emotions...

I have a friend whose boyfriend lives in a town about two hours away. They've been together for three years, have no plans to move or break up and are both really happy (as far as I can tell which mostly is "taking their word for it") for exactly that reason. They see eachother once a week or two, spend the weekend…

I personally avoid all hand holding, eye-gazing, and also smiling at people I think are cute because I think I saw a lesbian do that in a club once.

"Hello Crazy Eyes, let me be your dandelion!"

I thought that Adam Scott was my imaginary boyfriend, but then I saw him in stuff and realized that no, actually, Ben Wyatt is my imaginary boyfriend. Ben Wyatt > Adam Scott.

The Phoenicians and early Greeks would have agreed.

That has been one of my goals since this happened:

Yeah, that's true - my dad is an academic who is really good at his actual job but really bad at politics so he didn't go as far as some of his peers. But I think the difference is that arts is so subjective. You could be a genuinely talented and capable actress or writer and never get a chance to prove your…

Yeah, sounds similar to some of my family. My cousin is married to a screenwriter who also has a day job. Over the years he's had a few successes but mostly a lot of disappointment. She often talks about how hard it is to see her kids have artistic aspirations (acting, writing) because she wants to encourage them in…

I didn't think it was snarky and I hope my answer didn't sound that way! I was happy to answer the question, it's not like it's a really common title. (And I hope you're not also Canadian or this apology cycle might never end.)

It's just more specific - my dad is a geologist, but he specifically studies the earth through the lense of physics. You can also be a geochemist or a geobiologist or a bunch of other -ists. He works in the Earth Sciences department so some of his colleagues are volcanologists or hydrologists.