Is this a thing that you’ve seen other people suggest? I’m just surprised someone hasn’t brought it up before.

I… have never heard that idea before, and this is a problem I've thought about a lot, and read a fair bit on. That's really not a bad idea, since it would also take care of a lot of education, and probably stop a lot of grads wasting their time on bullshit studies because they don't have a clear idea of what's worth…

Western Quebec in general is full of Irish. I grew up in a town there which was easily 80% Irish, still with accents among the older folk.

Actually, your experience is exactly what is needed to understand Canadian sex. While Canadians do have sex outside of Calgary, this is solely for the purposes of reproduction, and generally short, functional, and unmemorable or even mildly unpleasant for both parties. However during the bacchanal that is the…

If you were a god-fucker, I could let it slide, but nope, you’re a fucker. Fucker.

I originally played Mira as totally honest and straightforward, and that didn’t seem to pay off much, so then I just figured she’s learned to play the game, and I straight up lied to Ser Wassisname about Sera’s family in order that he stay happy with her, and I got the information I needed about the heroin-addicted…

That's a terrible fucking song.

My kids played through all the Strong Bad episodes, which were much more traditional adventure games, and I played through the first season of The Walking Dead, which was closer to the GoT experience but still had, you know, puzzles every now and then. So Telltale certainly can do clearly GAME games, but I guess with…

I'm at the same place in GoT. My Rodrik is a fucking ornery sonovabitch, who refuse to take shit from anyone - I was actually pleased to see that only 35% of people stood up to Grynn or whatever his name is in Episode 3, but I sure as hell wasn't going to back down. Myra is a devious one, I've started straight up…

Been fairly games-light the past few weeks. Got through to Episode 4 of Game of Thrones after picking that up in the Humble Telltale Bundle. I was joking about this last time, but it's something that genuinely does make me question whether it's a "real game" or not. I don't actually care a great deal, since I'm…

It is true. Bye!

I'm not sure that's a game that anyone else here plays.

Protip: You should probably also pick a bride/groom at this point. Any less than two months and it just looks tacky.

Agreed! Everyone’s being suspiciously nice to me today, it’s like this is a place of reasonable discussions or something.

Thanks for the kind words. Like you said, I want to be an ally, and I have no intention of saying that you, or anyone else, is mentally ill. I also think that to the extent that nurture and nature are meaningful categories, being transgender (or cis) is a big blend of both (just like being straight/gay).
Anyways, I’m…

You’ll note that I explicitly deny that gender is purely a social construct, numerous times, throughout this thread.

Yeah, I’m with you. I’ve thought about this a lot more in terms of sexual orientation, and here I think I have something like a definitive statement for what I believe (which I’ve ranted about on this site a few times in the past). It’s basically this. The correct response to someone who wants to “pray away the gay”…

“Are trans women just men who mutilate their bodies?”

Something something she's got balls. I have no idea where I'm going with this.

Yeah… this is one of the reasons I'm very reluctant to talk about this stuff sometimes, because there are a fuck of a lot of assholes out there. For me, honestly, the developmental science of this is interesting in its own right, because I'm (sort of) a developmental psychologist. But it has very little bearing on the…