Goldcrest is an "it" not a "they."

Jimmies rustled. Congratulations.

This isn't particularly directed at you, I just wanted in on the conversation. I'm not taking a side, but this is just some food for thought. I am an attorney, and the general elements of a negligence case (e.g. personal injury) are:

Revolting.

Right. I qualified with "most" because I know there are some countries out there that have their own standards. But, I didn't know that about the Swiss. Go figure.

Right! Age of consent and CP laws, although seemingly related, have nothing to do with eachother. Anyone under 18 is a no go for images. That's an international standard that applies to most 1st world countries as far as I know.

Although, I suppose if I were a woman being hit on at a bar by a man in a pork pie, I'd be equally wary.

Heisenberg's hat is a porkpie, not a fedora, I believe. It's a subtle but important distinction.

This story is about racism, no doubt.

Yeah, I am too, mostly because they make better actors. I guess I just think 36 is really pushing it. She is 26 according to google, which seems more reasonable. I wonder, though, if any production of R&J anywhere, besides a retirement home, would cast a 36 year old woman as Juliet? Seems unfair.

He's supposed to be a teenager of unknown age. She's supposed to be 13. I believe Juliet's mom even makes a comment that she gave birth to Juliet at age 13, making her 26 in the play (perhaps an Old Maid by Shakespeare's standards?).

Well, if this is a wider spread problem than I realize, I hope those men are shamed out of the practice or kicked out of their gyms. Personal fitness shouldn't be a denegrating experience in any way.

I never said it doesn't happen, and I know my personal experience is anecdotal, obviously - just like yours. My point is that, when speaking in generalities, it's not fair to counterpoint an argument with anecdotes.

It works the other way, too. My gf hates weight rooms because she says she thinks all the men are judging her and oggling her, and will only go if a female buddy joins. Now I can't speak for oggling, because lots of men are creeps, but as far as judging - not likely. Men don't really care when women use weights and…

This is entirely anecdotal. I've worked out in a lot of weight rooms and I've never once seen a single man actively encourage a woman to leave. What is the basis of this statement?

Right, I understand the technical time frame of the "boom," I was just talking about convenience and also that I thought generations went by 20-year increments.

I always thought the distinctions were: boomers born 1941-1960, Xer's born 1961-1980, Millenials born 1981-2000, and whatever the next generation is starts in 2001. Maybe I'm wrong, though.

This has to be evidence of a civilization in decline - bourgeois/yuppy urbanites going apeshit over cutesy donuts.

Here is a shit-ton of the jezebel commentariat arguing that men are not stronger, on average, than women http://jezebel.com/5993704/the-wa…

After reading this thread, doesn't this seem to be a matter of perception? On one hand, men are the "choosers" in the traditional scheme in the sense that they choose whom to propose to and when. But on the other hand, women are the "choosers" in the traditional scheme because they are receiving all of the offers and…