...So has the I Ching. To other people I mean.

That'd be better if it wasn't solely exploiting a near synonym to make a non-native English speaker look silly.

I'll start having more respect for rom-coms when they start making them about situations like this. What an awesome story.

I would've suggested a retort along these lines:

Definitely missing the point, but as a 4th year undergraduate physics student, I do feel suitably chastised. It was the first example I could think of...

I've never seen why this is a big deal, unless you approach a story thinking everything should have a relentlessly happy ending. When you have axes, vampires and bullets flying all the over place, it seems statistically likely that one or two might hit a character you care about.

When I was younger, there was a girl who played on our football team (I'm a guy) who was pretty good. This was pre-puberty so there wasn't really a size/strength difference. But she had to stop when we hit 11 (I think) because official FA rules prohibit mixed-gender teams above that age.

I was under the impression that the Catholic Church's objection to IVF was based around the destruction of embryos. They don't just fertilise one egg and put it in, they throw a whole bunch and hope one sticks. They object to it on the same grounds as abortion, embryonic stem cell research, etc. It's not a secret…

Wow. That's a pretty impressive difference.

Yeah, you can. Many people are religious out of cultural habit, not because they reasoned their way there. These people, if not too devout, are often easy to reason out of belief because they have no particular interest in ignoring reason, unlike the more devout ones.

Lewis' trilemma is a load of bunk too. Vastly oversimplifies it, has a ridiculously narrow interpretation of mental illness and ignores every other religious prophet who has ever lived, in favour of just the one. Who happens to be the predominant prophet in the country that Lewis' lived. What a coincidence.

...Which is why I suggested that genes for for what society considers to be "objective beauty" might be co-expressed with blue eyes and blonde hair, and that maybe the concept of a blue-eyed blonde as a stereotypical ideal is due to people merely identifying the most prominent of a group of co-expressed…

I can see how you'd find it distasteful but I don't agree that it's completely unrelated. Agree to disagree?

Headline win.

I wonder if facial features stereotypically associated with "an objective standard of beauty" tend to be inherited with blue eyes and blonde hair. I don't think they actually make up a huge portion of the population so it seems a bit fortuitous that they managed to pick out the blue-eyed blonde as the most attractive…

I'm as militantly pro-science as anyone you're ever likely (and lucky enough) to meet, but even I concede that the world of science has really messed up this whole thing. I swear it cannot possibly be that complicated or difficult figure out. I'm not sure we can even blame this on the media and the way science is…

I used to occasionally say things like that until I realised that it was a white person seemingly questioning the "blackness" of a black person and thought that might seem rude.

Link fail. I found a better one though:

Wow, sarcasm sure is hard to glean from text.

Wow, condoms sure are getting expensive.