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While that is true, that is a terrible message to teach in this way, because it's saying that the teachers don't care about fairness and neither should the students once they are old enough to be in charge.

Haha, good point.

In swimming, it's not bigger per se, but longer that's conducive to the fastest swimmers. There must be tons of exceptions, but in general the longer your arms and the bigger your feet, the faster you are likely to be able to swim with proper training.

I'm not talking about tattoos. Having to cover those up is definitely overkill. But teachers having dresscodes is not in and of itself bad. Even if the students don't have one, the teachers are professionals and should dress in a way that conveys that (which is going to be different school district to school district,…

Exactly. Children and teenagers are argumentative little fucks (I mean that in a completely positive, but exhausted way) and they will totally harp on teachers for enforcing a dress code on them when the teachers don't have to abide by the same thing.

Hey, Suspension. My date for the prom kinda flaked out on me. I was wondering, if you weren't doing anything that night, maybe we could rent some new releases and pop some popcorn?

Yes, when you think about her lack of powers, that she was playing with the big boys (as in superpowered) makes her the only superheroic one

I would be there for the first midnight showing in costume!

I went into the movie thinking it would be great and only worried about Hathaway as Catwoman and I left the movie disappointed, but really loving Hathaway as Catwoman.

Eva Green would be great, but I disagree with emmabrocker2 and think Anne Hathaway was clearly the best part of TDKR

People do need to be less sensitive about sex because it's an essential part of all of our everyday lives. People need to be way more sensitive about violence because it doesn't have to be an essential part of our everyday lives (though it will always exist).

Sorry, I know that I just responded to one of your posts, but you've explained yourself more here, so I'd like to add a more clear question. Sorry for pushing this, I'm just interested in your POV.

Do you think GRRM makes the rape seem trivial?

Jon Snow and Ygritte had tons of unproblematic sex.

This made my morning

But shouldn't it be okay for there to be a very detailed book of what's allowed and what isn't? People keep saying that it would be simplest and most fair to just have everyone with prosthetics compete together and keep the Olympics for the naturally able-bodied people, but the definition of able-bodied is already…

Isn't that a spurious argument? We're not talking about constitutional law; we're talking about the IOCC. I'm not saying they shouldn't seriously consider the stakes of this debate now and make some sort of decision on whether is he augmented or not, but I don't think letting him compete now will actually prevent them…

That was the first thing I thought too!

That's an interesting idea that could work, but it might also have the effect of marginalizing the athletes with prosthetics by literally making them a sideshow and not true athletes. There might be ways around this, but that's the first problem that comes to mind.