I should be looking at this thinking how awesome it is. Instead... The costume bunches up under her arms a bit and it's pulled a little off to one side in the photo, possibly from her pose. The visual asymmetry is bothering me.

Every part of your argument was interesting except the first line. The first line was awful. Like, really, really, awful.

Holy crap. You remembered that discussion from over ten years ago and could find it again that fast? Damn, that's impressive.

As far as this being fantasy goes, there's a difference between "A world in which yeti exist in the mountains" and "A world in which women in locations devoid of other human life wear clothing which offers no protection from the elements or attacks with weapons because ... um... because..."

Context.

I think part of the complaints here involve the imbalance in the objectification and in the current movement within the community to seek legitimacy.

RE objectifying men on covers of books:

Although that said, perhaps we're at the crossroads: sci-fi used to be seriously lumped in with porn. So: this is where science fiction breaks away from the 90's, from being in the same mish-mash pile as the fantasy, the porn, and the nasty bits of the horror genre.

Thank you. There's a place and a time. There's nothing wrong with a little softcore porn in it's own venue, but that venue is not on the cover of a professional publication about a craft that isn't softcore porn.

Grade schooler.... She was in kindergarden or something, right? That scene freaked me out. I was around what, 15 when I read it? His logic.... jeez. No relation to the real world whatsoever.

Cracking up laughing at your comment. Those books were *so* freaky. And he's a straight-up pedo. I'm tempted to re-read them as an adult to see exactly how messed up they were. (Books that should be restricted from kids: Anthony, Heinlein, those Gorr books whose author I can't remember...) Not all science fiction is…

"Crapolla," sighed Mike as he leaned back from the porthole. "We've got Space Pirates suck to our outer hull."

She survived because she was incompetent in the field, so she took a desk job. Girls don't live through field work in his universe.

It's actually not about the girl, it's about the effect her death has on Bond, and our empathizing with him as a character. She could be replaced by a potted plant, for all the plot cares, as long as he cares about her. The only reason she's a girl at all is so they can two-for-one the plot point and add in the sex.

wine, if they drink. pie if they don't. A photo of you and the bf together in a nice frame would work too.

I guess I don't see Mal calling Inara names as slut-shaming, or anything that made him a horrible person. And I don't see that making him all politically correct would have been true to his character. He was who he was, and that character, with all it's flaws, was what we loved to watch.

They sell it at the local Hawaiian place, but I prefer to make it at home - I can use a bit less rice than they do.

Spam Musubi. You will eat spam again and love it... (I prefer my spam baked in the oven, as then it does not make such a stinking mess.)

Canned meatesque solids: My favorite line so far.

Agreed; doctoring the food or drink someone else is consuming is called, in legalese, poisoning.