Ah yes, having a plentiful food (and water) supply that is infinitely safer than at any other time in human history is just horrifying.

$200 at Pigalle?

The problem isn't that they are super nerdy, it's that they're some producer's idea of what super nerdy is. It's not exaggerated, it's just bizarre.

Farscape had the perfect ending to the series.

But, but... privilege!

Wait, you're telling me the 50s and 60s may have been somewhat sexist? Who knew!

So basically this is just a really round-about way of asking "how old are you?"

The classic scenario is that it's a foot in the door: use something personal and embarrassing to blackmail the person into doing something seemingly trivial involving their clearance (leak something unimportant, lose some documents, etc) - now you can really blackmail them (repeat as necessary).

Non-snarky question: what's wrong with femiman? Does it have a history I'm not aware of?

Condom use is a non-argument, in real life.

I actually meant your comments about what "should matter" when it comes to sex (to all of us, I assume). You may not feel that sex and gender are an important part of your identity, but for most people it is.

I've always thought that telling other people what should matter to them is kind of a weird pastime.

What's the fun in that?

Of course we can dismiss a community of a million members based on a dozen posts! What are you new here or something?

I don't claim to live up to feminist ideals - if she were a dude, I would be making fun of her in exactly the same manner, for exactly the same reasons. My definition of feminism doesn't require being "nice" to awful people (I'm sure I'm wrong, of course).

I suppose it would be, but since I don't call people sexist for commenting on someone's looks, may I continue snarking?

Really?

Yeah, nice try.

I tend to hold a "no magic" view of the world: if there is no magic at conception that creates a person out of a fertilized egg, there is no magic at birth that distinguishes a newborn from a viable fetus a few hours before.

Simple: secret ballots are impossible with online voting, and that's a pretty big component of fair elections.