I try to avoid getting drunk, but sometimes a drink might be stronger than anticipated and hit me all at once. When I do feel intoxicated, I generally get just... very relaxed. Neither outgoing nor bellicose, not even uninhibited, just a sense of calm, maybe a little warmth, and the tension goes out of my muscles.

It always surprises me that the pro-life advertisements I sometimes see never seem to focus on the economic factors that motivate women toward seeking abortions. They should be throwing about slogans like, “Stable income for families, so that no mother should contemplate sacrifice,” or “A decision to use contraception…

Heck, I think the idea of an artificial womb is wonderful. Synthetic uterine replicators so that no women who chooses to have a child need necessarily suffer the discomfort of pregnancy and birth. Helps make control over and agency within the reproductive process even more absolute.

I am sure some part of the attitude is arrogance, but I think that there is a lot of genuine fear too. Like the guy who acts excessively macho and rude because his sense of masculine identity is so fragile, so too are some people’s ideas about the nature of the universe they inhabit. Most of them are brought up from a…

I rember when they tried to get it into the Texas Republician party platform that critical thinking should not be taught in schools because it “undermines parental authority.”

I find it ironic that they talk about the War On Women as a talking point to motivate a political base.

I remember when Extra Credits made a public statement saying in effect that they cannot condone the goals or methods used by GamerGate. Suddenly you have a bunch of people saying, “I used to respect you, now I hate you!” in the comments to every video they have had even remotely touching on diversity or equality of…

I am honestly surprised by the number of comments skeptical of this. Yes, this is the kind of thing that courts ought to handle, but in the face of cases that go rarely reported to the police and rarely result in serious convictions even when they do, a university should take steps to do what they can within their own…

“Sinful Lesbian Yoghurt” sounds like an awesome name for a riot girl band.

I get the feeling that it comes out of the same evangelistic mindset that drives a lot of proselytizing: as soon as someone hears the “Good News” they will be so overwhelmed by the self-evident Truth of it on the spot that they will convert immediately, and if they refuse to do so it must be due to obstinate willful…

Frankly I think they should let this field lie fallow a while. I was invested in the trilogy when it felt like a distinctive arc of a story that would build up to an inevitable conclusion. When the space between AC2 and AC3 got padded out with a couple of annual stand-alone, fully-priced expansion packs, I got a…

I cannot help but feel like it is the extension of a subcultrual norm that infantilizes women. They are either girls, who have parents who “know best” what to decide on their behalf, or husbands whom they should be deferential to in matters of any import.

I have noted in the rhetoric of many pro-life advocates the notion that women, somehow, are incapable of actually being informed agents in their own participation in the post-conception reproductive process. They keep going on about how women who go into have abortions done must be “confused” or that someone must have…

I would not worry too much about it. You intellectually accept it and that is the important part. That is actually fairly normal, that the uncanny to one’s own experience is a bit unnerving is natural. However, what my experience has been is that if you give it some time, what seems to be alien at first eventually…

I have been playing Iron Banner a lot lately, and yeah I have been seeing a lot of Thorns. I have one myself, but generally do not use it.

UltimaFullmetal said it, it is 500 points rather than 500 literal kills. The quest text is not the most clear on this matter. I had a friend who got to that stage of the quest, saw the numbers, went “Nope!” and abandoned it.

I remember Jessica Williams saying that the offensive stereotype of white guys is as a “fearless asshole.” She was saying she admired Jason Jone’s ability to pull that attitude off so effortlessly during correspondent field pieces, which was an air she struggled to affect.

In response to the general question, and speaking only from my own experience as a cis-hetero-male, yes, I did feel interchangable. Mostly this was the result of excessive rationalization. I would imagine that women who are interested in men would select partners strategically, carefully evaluating candidates, and…

It is less about rallying more Republicans to the side of an already ideologically locked-down party as it is securing their own position within that party. Essentially the Republican politicians are being held hostage by their own ideologically-rigid voting block, and if they do not tow the ideological line, someone…

True, but presidential elections seem to be the one election that really gets out the vote of a lot of demographics who otherwise sit most elections out. In elections this big, the turnout is rarely as one-sided as it is in smaller elections.