Because Pakistan has, with a great deal of mess, had to make itself a country out of nothing. Like, objectively America is just a collection of states thrown together by a war, but because they were thrown together, they evolved together. Same thing with Pakistan, within itself there is a huge amount of variety, but…

As long as everyone's into it, who are we to judge?

Sometimes it's nice to explain things in depth to trolls, provided they're being polite and easy to out think. They won't get it, but maybe a lurker will read through and understand something that didn't click before. Same reason you argue with bigoted older relatives, they're not going to change their minds, but your…

It's very fair minded of you to be giving this person the benefit of the doubt, but trust me, what he says boils down to "we should stop trying to change this toxic environment that is preventing women from becoming engineers and programmers because maybe they just weren't meant to be", which, given the overwhelming…

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Bigots like to hide their bigotry behind what sounds reasonable until you look at it closely. It's fine to be fooled, but when people reel back and go, 'whoa, this is wildly outdated, completely historically inaccurate, and frankly a little sexist when taken in context', it's important to listen. Studies saying woman…

His science was shoddy (seriously, gender is something that's still being debated to this day, and the truth is that we don't know what's innate and what's socialization, because of how impossible it is to get rid of priming from outside sources) and pretty gender essentialist given what we've discovered over the past…

She was probably fairly pretty during his first two break-ins, in a roundfaced, teenager sort of way. Having nine kids and ruling a country does some damage to you, but she took the throne at eighteen and wasn't too much older than that when Jones became obsessed with her. She was still in the flush of youth, and…

She had wet nurses for all of them, which to be fair was the style at the time since it let you get back to pumping out kids faster. Then later in life she called one of her daughters who did insist on nursing her own children "a cow" and then actually named a cow after her, because when you have nine kids you get…

A quote from old Vicky's diary on break-in two. “If he had come into my bedroom, how frightened I would have been!” This after he was found under a sofa in her dressing room, not too far from her newborn's nursery. Ah, Victorian priorities.

True, that alone casts even more doubt on reports of what we today would interpret as freedom. The Athenians probably would have considered, "sexually promiscuous and allowed to *gasp* own property" to be quite the slander campaign. There's some solid archaeological evidence (statues and that sort of thing) for…

I'm not saying the growing homogeneity of, say, China is a net positive, but it's an undeniable fact in a way your claims about Europe aren't. It's impacted the way citizens view themselves on a pretty large scale, meanwhile most Europeans don't see themselves as Europeans. They see themselves as citizens of their own…

"Most everyone speaks a Latin derived tongue"? No? No. Objectively wrong about Europe. You've got your Slavic, your Finno-Urgatic, your huge swathes of Germanic, your chunks of Celtic. Now almost everyone does speak English these days, but so do most people in Singapore and South Africa.

Western European isn't a culture.

It's been lots and lots of months and he's barely declared any martial law, poor boy! He's getting antsy and he really wants to be allowed to send the Feds somewhere. They made it sound like it would all be big raids and sweeping gestures. He even had uniforms made for his secret police! To be manufactured in China,…

If by higher regard you mean, "willing to let women be physically fit, as long as they then settled down to baby making for their husbands who they never saw except occasionally at night". Sparta's entire motive for their infamous brand of feminism was the belief that healthier women made healthier warriors. It was…

If we remind them that good old Betsy was a woman and the Fifty Nifty includes blue states, we might be able to get the American flag too! We all know what flag they really want to have.

Try, "The Emoji "Movie"". By using a cinematic term, you accept and simultaneously transcend the limitations of your medium. You have subverted the known standards of novels, and then reached for more. Yet you are self-aware in your own arrogance, Icarus before his fall, the emoji before incomprehensibility.

We couldn't even find the Romanov's bodies for decades, much less definitively identify them. None of Anastasia nonsense needs to happen here, I want his corpse on full display, preferably with a third party autopsy so we can take some joy in how messed up his system was.

If Pence was enough of a big boy to write things for himself, it might have been him. All his actions do suggest he's actively rooting for a Revelations end to this. Maybe it was Karen, goodness knows she has enough to be angry about.