Again, if it is essential to a story to know that a character has a vagina, the writer will make it clear to you that the character has a vagina, so I don’t think there is more confusion there. If the particular genitalia a character possesses is left unsaid, by definition it is not important to the story(just like it…

Just refer to characters who are women as women. I have no idea what confusion you are possibly even imagining. If a woman’s vagina is relevant to the story, just talk about her vagina as necessary to explain whatever it is that needs explaining about it. If a woman having a period is relevant to the story, talk about…

Investors, of course, want companies to perform well, which includes not taking like a decade to release a game.  But the fact that investors want a company to do things that will make the company more money (because of course they do) isn’t an excuse for a company to then turn around and lie to those very same…

Really? I add salt to basically everything, I’ve rarely met a dish that I consider over-seasoned, and my experience at restaurants has been that mostly everything is pretty generously seasoned. In fact, I feel like if you were trying to describe the difference between a dish that is cooked by someone at home, and the…

yeah like I don’t see the problem per se in calling them all women, but as a writer, how do you talk specifically about a woman who was born with a vagina without using the word woman or talking about menstrual cycles?

Yeah, and Donald Trump has never outright, on the record, said he thinks, say, black people are inferior, and yet we shouldn’t have any problem believing he’s racist. Stop pretending to be so naive.

meanwhile she’s raising concerns with violent male sex offenders waving the magic wand, declaring they’re women, and being put in women’s prisons.

Her points - that ‘women’ as a defined group shouldn’t be marginalised or renamed

I’ve only made it a few times, and the last time was years ago, and I didn’t pay particular attention to what type of bacon it was. I’m sure any salty cured meat product (especially of the pork variety) would do the trick, depending on your taste.  In fact, if I make this again, I might substitute some fried…

I don’t have much to add about the mechanics of making good mashed potatoes (to me, you boil them, then add generous amounts of salt and butter, and mash them, and it is adequate, but looking forward to experimenting with various techniques and potato types), but I will share this mashed potato recipe that I used to…

I don’t know whether they have “more work” after they have won an Oscar. First of all, that doesn’t tell you much, because they could have less work because they are genuinely having trouble finding work, or they could have less work because they are able to be more selective about which projects they accept.

Right. Here’s the list of best actress winners from the last decade:

Yes, but...I think the entire Hollywood talent pool and music industry machine has lowered its bar so low that SNL quality is just a reflection of a much bigger issue.

I don’t recall any special collections called “The Best of 2010 and newer”

People have been saying this exact same thing since 1995. (People were saying similar things earlier, but depending on when you might have to swap “1 year ago,” “5 years ago,” or “10 years ago” in for “20 years ago” out of necessity).

lol, dunno, but better safe than sorry

Eh. I’m not sure what the appeal of this is. But an even more widespread holiday tradition for a lot more people (myself included) is to binge drink, which involves ingesting significant amounts of a substance that is toxic to your body, and which probably entails a higher likelihood of illness.  So no judgment from…

Not sure what the relevance of that is?  Having done nice things, even a lot of nice things, in the past, doesn’t insulate people from criticism for selfishness.  Anyway, Bob Dylan’s net worth is estimated to be about $200 million.

The next time an attorney with a deep-pocketed client with a viable claim discourages that client from pursuing that claim, will be the first time.

No one here is saying that he’s not allowed to do what he did.  Obviously he can.  But he could also do something more generous with it as well.  We don’t have to simply accept, uncritically, the selfishness of other people.