Improvement.

Why doesn't *everyone* come back to life in Harry Potter?

This is one of those ideas that, once you see it, you're amazed you didn't think of it ages ago.

Seriously: how many mechanics do you know that do somersaults to get around?

Tar-antler-a.

For some reason the phrase from the Martian stories "Dark they were, and golden eyed" just, like, punched me in the stomach.

That.

Thanks Neil Gaiman. I'm crying at work. Stop it. Stop it now.

The chestnut about sex's "naturalness" and absence of emotion is reliable, but we're also being told constantly that the reason humans have sex differently from animals is *specifically because* of an evolutionary need to maximize emotional connection.

I dunno. The premise is kind of "you're dumb and I'm smart, nanner nanner."

Yes. This.

This isn't a particularly productive article. We get it: we're wrong. What are some common misconceptions, and what is the truth to discount it?

This this this this this this this.

+2

Goddammit. Beat me.

I think it's PR. Most crimes are "allegations" but getting caught on the beach with a hot lady is getting caught.

And all male athletes are producing more testosterone than me, a blogger.

Yeah, that's been my stance for ever - ALL professional athletes are genetic anomalies.

I've said a million times elsewhere that attempted rape is not character development, that it's a shame that if you come across a bad-ass woman in scifi/fantasy/action you can be sure as shit she's had sexual abuse in her past because men are often terrible at creating female characters and feel the need to "explain"…

"How did we go from lifeless puddles of chemicals to strings of self-reproducing DNA on a planet that was at the time so inhospitable?"