I avoid threads that have to with the Israel Palestine conflict like the plague. This time, I took a chance and I have to say, thank god for your comments, they're the only sane ones in this entire thread.

Thank you. The amount of ridiculous outrage here is unbelievable.

The thing is, it costs a shitload of money to test blood (100 euros where I'm from, no idea about the US), so let's say someone donates blood, that blood is tested and they find out it's infected. Well, it's 100 euros out of the window. Since gay male sex is the biggest vector in HIV transmission, it's about not…

Yep. Also, whenever a movie trailer opens with "Based on the incredible true story of..." I just want to run away. It's so manipulative: oh so it's totally earnest and over the top but how dare you criticize it! Because it actually happened!

Seriously. When Mad Men is over, Emmy voters will be like "oh, shit, Elizabeth Moss has never won an Emmy for Mad Men" but it will be too late, people. TOO LATE. But yeah, sure, keep nominate Kerry Washington and Claire Danes.

You mean there's NO evidence. Not all myths are based on actual events. There have been some theories that some other semitic people who somehow escaped as slaves (maybe a dozen of them? maybe more?) could have later been incorporated into the story and made to be Hebrew by the time the Exodus was written but again,…

It depends. Some therapists maintain very strict boudaries in order to remain a "blank slate" to their patients, some are more in favour of sharing stuff (within boundaries) with their patients, only if it's in the patient's interests and in order to create a more equal relationship. My therapist has never told me…

Friends and family aren't objective to your situation. There's too much baggage there. You need a professional who 1) has the training and 2) who can be somewhat impartial to your problems in order to help you reach your goals and heal. That doesn't mean that therapists are absolute impartial robots. They're human too…

All of this plus she just looks like a bimbo. I don't get the appeal at all.

You live in Belgium and were rooting for the US? You must have felt pretty alone haha.

I personally know two people who were conceived throught donation. They told me they don't care to know. Obviously that's a very small sample, I realize that. I've also read many studies about the subject that say that people who desperately want a relationship (not just to meet them once) with their bio parents are…

But not every single kid who was conceived through sperm donor wants to "know who they are". What does that even mean? Who you are is mostly defined by who raised you, not your genetic makeup. Some kids ae perfectly fine, well-adjusted and don't care to know. Some are slightly curious but no more than that. It's the…

Well said. I can't help but think about the movie We Need To Talk About Kevin where Tilda Swinton plays the mother of a teenage son who shot several students at his school. It's different because in the movie it can be argued that the mother is somehow responsible for her son's atrocities but the way Tilda Swinton's…

So true.

Thank you. I tend to be very suspicious whenever people paint an image of African societies (in that case, but it could be any non-Western society) as an ideal place where everyone was somehow equal and misogyny and sexism barely existed, same-sex relationships were absolutely A-ok with everybody and suddenly…

Well, it's called "soccer" is one single country in the whole world. So it's safe to say that the actual name is football. We're just being polite here and calling it soccer so you Americans don't get confused.

I'm not sure they care about that. Antisemitism was alive and well in Russia way before the Nazis rose to power. "Pogrom" is a Russian term after all. One that my great grandparents knew too well.

It's not far fetched in my experience. Many women have no idea, even with biology classes (provided they paid attention), it's very different to have a drawing of a vagina to study versus actually knowing how your own body works. I thought it was hilarious (and super realistic) that the women who had no clue how women…

Join civilization? Hum, what? Yes, Spain is a monarchy. A constitutional monarchy. You know that, right? Monarchy is a regime, it's not intrinsically better or worse than any other regime.

"I honestly think the problem is that most viewers see themselves in Piper, so they "hate her." Like, everyone can identify with her selfishness, her cluelessness, etc. And no one really wants to admit that"