That actually sounds amazing! I’m glad to hear it was a positive upbringing, because it definitely sounds like it.

Thank you for that! I am not in the least bit religious, but man, do I enjoy learning about it. I appreciate the distillation for me. :)

Right? They were literally preaching to the choir - 50 kids predisposed to be pro-life, who had never thought especially critically about why one might have an abortion - and we were like, “no, but that doesn’t make sense because ____ and that sounds wrong because _____ and why would you be so mean, if everyone can be…

Just to be a pedant, the immaculate conception relates to Mary being born without original sin; she was conceived in the standard manner.

My 8th grade class got in so much trouble during a pro-life lecture, because we were genuinely confused.

Also funny — birth control wouldn’t help with, cough, immaculate conception.

They’re basically the Food Babe of the environmental organization world. Click bait and shiny press releases to lure people in, just enough science to sound legitimate.

That’s pretty much what feminism is about though, females being treated equally as males. A female character getting treated like a full fledged character and not playing second fiddle to a male dominated story, in the modern media, that’s basically feminism at work. It just sucks that feminism gets misused to mean a…

I get that you’re stuck on how gross the idea is but it’s infinitely preferable to testing on animals, which is a thousand times more disgusting. So...I guess I’m having a little trouble with the simple sentiment of “ew” here. The ethics outweigh the ew factor by about a million. I’m not a vegetarian who claims the…

That's fucking amazing. I can't see how any person would read this and not be in awe of the awesome science behind it. Growing skin... In a lab... Can you imagine what other amazing things could be done with this technology?!

Isn’t alimony based on the idea that lots of couples agree that the wife will stay home and raise the kids, so she’s at a major disadvantage trying to support herself in the event of a divorce, while the husband has been developing a career the entire time? I’m not saying she should get enough alimony to completely…

You mentioned you didn’t see the movie as feminist as you instead saw it as a really good fucking movie, as if the two things were mutually exclusive. If I said “I didn’t see Interstellar as a science fiction movie, I saw it as a really good movie”, I’d think most people would respond “It’s both.”

this entire thread is the most Kotaku thread ever, ie a bunch of dudes both misunderstanding the film and misunderstanding feminism

I loved the movie. My favorite scene was the fight between Max and Furiosa after they first meet. It actually might be one of my favorite fight scenes of all time!

I read a book on Yellowstone once and they were talking about the days in the 1950s when the bears were still foraging in the park dumps and were pretty bold about approaching humans (the park made major changes in the 1980s I think). There was a case when a bear was being fed by tourists on the side of the road and a…

Nice sign! Maybe they should break it down for dense “i-people.”

I went camping in yellowstone one year, and had to use the back exit of my tent, but there was a bison 2 feet from the opening. I don’t think anyone has ever backed up faster than I did in that moment. He was huge, he was scary, and I was terrified.

Please, please, please keep your distance from

It’s stupid regardless of where you come from. But tourists gonna tourist I guess. The worst I’ve seen is in Asian national parks with wild monkeys. Everyone knows damn well you’re not allowed to bother them, but that doesn’t stop the tourists from feeding them junk food and trying to get cute “me and Curious George…

With all wild animals, they all could attack for any reason! They are wild. Lets all use common sense.