It most certainly IS the morphene man that makes it gendered. Inasmuch as “man” has gendering. You can’t simply handwave that away and argue usage, because if you do you’re saying that we could have kept fireman and just through “usage” removed its gendered aspect—and that’s absurd.

You say that “Many people have a negative reaction to calls that the name for feminism be changed because some hear it as an insistence that we are in a post-feminist society…” but while I get that, I do, that’s not compelling response to the issue. When we’re talking about principles, emotion doesn’t negate the…

Thank you for your response (though Kinja didn’t notify me); and thank you for it not just being a knee-jerk of assuming I’m a douchebag. This actually is something that I care about; language is important to me. Probably more so than most.

Fun fact: “Cynic”, etymologically, means “doglike”.

I’m in the grays, and I know a comment like this is never going to get me out of them.

I’m a Golden Girls Superfan, and You Should Be, Too

I preorder when: I know I want the game (sequel usually) and I’m getting something. Like with fallout New Vegas, or with Fallout 4; I was gonna get it anyway, and I got physical stuff. Otherwise I probably won’t preorder. The have been rare exceptions, but the game had to really max out the “I want to buy this for…

I literally just bought the record of Rum, Sodomy, the Lash today! Almost got If I Should Fall From Grace With God instead.

That’s not how you said your qualification, but the point largely irrelevant. As is the difference between “could have fallen thru the cracks” and your initial statements that “chances are” he couldn’t have gotten her in.

“I didn’t make a sweeping statement about all the states, just the ones I know which aren’t even specified.”

I didn’t say you called me a liar. Once again, the only one who’s got a reading comprehension problem seems to be you. I insisted you not accuse me of conflating things I wasn’t conflating, and made a separate point about how you shouldn’t just assume someone who’s interpreting something differently is being…

And I’m sorry that you stand by misinformation. I can’t do more than point out where you’re wrong; if you presist in ignoring reality after that I can’t help you. I can only hope other readers see the several places you have gone wrong, as you’ve made it clear you don’t want to discuss this with anything based on…

Actually, I didn’t say or suggest it would require lying on his part. If someone is seriously wanting to kill themselves and the only barrier is that they don’t think they can do it themselves, it would not be unreasonable to sign an affidavit that you think they’re at risk for self-harm, any more than it would be to…

Your original post was sweeping, implying generally that he wouldn’t. That’s false. It may be true in your jurisdiction, but unless that jurisdiction is Ohio, I’m not sure what the relevancy is, and your generalization would still hold as false. It’s also worth noting that in some jurisdictions, “72 hour hold” is a…

Unfortunately, you are mistaken. I don’t know Ohio’s laws, but in many jurisdictions all you need to do is sign an affidavit attesting likely harm to self or others to get an initial petition filed. I speak both from professional experience and because it was done (not by me) to my wife.

I used to own one of those “looks old” CD player/Record player/Radio boxes, but it was always overpriced garbage (I paid like 250 for it over a decade ago). Now I use the Sylvania one that Amazon has for 28 bucks that works off battery or USB power. Works better, is portable, and if anything goes wrong it’s not hard…

When a high school teacher is sleeping with his student, it’s not a plotwise shock he’s a killer too.

There was a pretty big clue in...the first episode, I think? If you listen in on a phone conversation he was having with someone, he says something that made me assume they were sleeping together—obviously, there’s more goin’ on than that, and it might not even be that, but I figured he was sleeping with her; I’ve…

Only if the developers sue. You. ..do know the police don’t enforce contracts, right? And so the only way to get any kind of adjudication is through a civil suit (or theoretically arbitration)?

So you’re just assuming, then, despite the plain meaning of the words being different. Given that they have a vested interest in that interpretation now (and might not have before), your confidence seems very misplaced. They want out. ...even within that clause they didn’t follow the rules (nothing in writing), so…