Since I was not conditioned to be quiet or nice in any way what-so-freaking-ever, when I found out in my 20s that women had to be TAUGHT to holler if someone was touching or harassing them, I felt a. like a space alien, b. sad, and c. super-grateful for my mom and dad.

Die now from your ectopic pregnancy or die later from your capital murder conviction. Mississippi: So Many Choices!

It's sad that we as a country suck so hard and thinking. I think. Sort of? Huh? Crap! *pops a beer and watches the tee-vee*

My cousin in Denver uses them. She got them online, but they would be easy to make.

As a woman who has been interested in the fantasy and science fiction genres since I was, say, 12, I would like to submit that those books brought a total of zero women to the genre. They are romance novels with vampires, and the women who love them want more romance novels, not more vampire or other fantasy novels,…

I am so glad someone else thinks the Jonathan Strange book was a load of crap. I started reading it, found too many faux-Victorian UNintentional anachronisms and really poorly-executed pseudo-Victorian speech and writing patterns, and said, "Wow. This is crap. Why do people like it?" Then stopped reading because I am…

Even from shore, where I saw it two days in a row, this was a hell of a show. The people pursuing the whales in boats and kayaks? Not so much.

Exactly. I have a major mood disorder, but that does not mean that I cannot also AND AT THE SAME TIME be an asshole for reasons completely unrelated to my mood disorder. Reasons such as: I'm kind of an asshole sometimes.

I think the main point is that the asshole you were correcting DOES think it is about sex+submissiveness and thinks that's AWESOME. And your reaction to it was appropriate given his assumptions.

I would have to see the original material to know the context, but in my (extensive) reading through Renaissance and later material, "the wise virgins awaiting the coming of the bridegroom" are nuns, not women who will reproduce. Christ is the bridegroom.

Your argument is still univalent. Not everyone is you and your personal experience is not the sole measure of human abilities.

You seem to refuse to acknowledge that there are people with marginal literacy (a 1993 study, to take one example, found that "21% to 23% of adult Americans were not 'able to locate information in text', could not 'make low-level inferences using printed materials', and were unable to 'integrate easily identifiable…

So, I reflect your (clearly unacknowledged, I guess) classicm back at you and that makes me classist. Interesting.

Yes, but you are an educated smart person. Not everyone is an educated smart person. So, upon whom SHOULD we push it off? Uneducated not-as-smart people? Yeah, that sounds really fair.

It's a little "she's on a State Department trip to Tajikistan" thingy. She tried to explain Cain's remark to Hamid Karzai on her way through Afghanistan. He was baffled/not amused.

Or Mackenzie, Madison, or anything the hell else. I CHANGED my name to a gender non-specific name, on purpose, so people couldn't immediately guess my gender when they read my name. Because you know what? A. Sexism exists! and B. It's none of anybody's damn business what my gender is. If you meet me, you can hazard a…

"I'm pretty sure almost all of these sanctimonious, evil, anti-choice fuckers would demand serious medical treatment for a child born with a birth defect that would kill it if left untreated." See, that's the part where I think you're wrong. I think these evil, anti-choice misogynist fascists don't CARE if the baby…

"you have to be able to tell the kid's gender from the name" <—-that is really really messed up and ridiculous.

I actually had a Maasai offer my dad 40 cows for me. Dad put the guy off with the ONLY excuse that ever seemed to work in Kenya: she has to finish her schooling.

I am now going to go register "Bill O'Reilly's neckfat" as a blog name.