Nope, that's just activating it. You're using easi-yo? I love that stuff, but it's bloody expensive here in the US. Cooking isn't popular anymore with all the "probiotic!" hype, but in the US come companies used to pasteurize it to kill the bacteria before packaging.

Man whaps woman 1. Assuming remaining women take a moment to be in shock and the man decided to select another victim instead of continuing with the first, he can them whap woman two. Just for variety, woman three takes a moment to stumble backwards, woman four picks up a rock. Man goes after one of the two. Either he…

Mostly because when you're brainwashed, you don't really take time out to eat, or sleep, or shower. It's all learning all the time! Who knows what we're capable of when all the usual distractions are stripped away?

Yes. Absolutely.

Nah. Some of it gets cooked, which kills the microbes.

Ok, I went looking for something to support your statement and couldn't find it. I did find some other statistics at the American Bar Association website, with sources cited. I can't really find anything anywhere saying women are more likely to be the source of any abusive behavior towards any category of victim, be…

This gives me hope.

Rage isn't specific to gender, although people with high testosterone (which can trigger a more aggressive response) are statistically more likely to be male.

I scrolled down this page with a tremendous sense of inevitability. Thank you for not disappointing me.

I've seen both. Possums are *adorable*. Oppossums are giant, goose-sized rats. That hiss. And have shark teeth. Whoever thought the cute, fuzzy critters from Australia looked anything like the nasty, snarling omnivores from the US... was blind, deaf, and brain-damaged.

Heh. Friday starts in the first couple chapters with a rape/torture scene. It gets less memorable after that.

It depends entirely on what you consider abusive, when you say "women are more abusive than men". Women tend to be less violent in their abuse, but men tend to be less verbally/emotionally abusive. I'd say the stats are pretty even if you add in all kind of abuse; each gender as their own niche. Men do tend more…

Oh, come on! You're doing your guys a disservice. They read Guns n Ammo, right?

I like watching their eyes glaze over! Saves me from having to discuss work outside of work. The sooner they completely dismiss my job as a potential topic of conversation, the sooner we can talk about books and food and D&D.

D&D is an awesome game. It's all about the folks you play with - having a good group, relaxing, eating pizza and rolling dice while you plot and scheme and try to figure out how exactly you're gonna keep this character alive through the next 5 minutes. Most folks have a really bad image of what it's like, though. It…

I wish I could promote this comment.

No, I don't think his ideas were practical. But the fact that he wanted the world to be a better place and idealized it is kind of sweet. Like a hippie stuck in the middle of wall street - silly, but kind of fun, too.

There were a couple protags that were definitely him, but he wrote a couple books with female protags where the women's point of view was quite a strong one. Um, it's been a long time, so... there was one with Lazarus Long's mother, I think... my high school library had it and I'm pretty sure they had no idea what was…

I read his stuff as a child and haven't touched it since. The memories were a bit creepy, and I'm not sure I wouldn't be outraged if I re-read them as an adult.

Well, that's sort of true in this world too.