@Admiral Babyruthless: My sister's an ob/gyn and she talked new parents into turning their baby's first name (Anis) into her middle name.

@rd2uk: Last year, I met a girl named Mercy Ann Fury.

Because divinities know children never kept women on their toes.

@AthertonMerriweather: I've found that my clothes look better on my cushy satin hangers, not the wire ones.

@emaline: Honestly, I don't know if it would ever be a good idea. Even with the blogosphere explosion, I can't answer that. Which is why I thought I'd comment with a different POV. Because I just can't tell, but no one else here seems to have that same problem.

@thirdboat: Thanks for that. I read it front to back, but I still don't see evidence that New is some kind of Mengele who is after the lezzies. Even if she is researching the influence of dex on gendered behaviour, I still don't see that.

@emaline: I was merely using their quoting "abnormal" without providing context as an example of their poor writing and scholarship. Any academic worth their salt knows you can make another academic's/researcher's work say whatever YOU want it to say as long as you're clever about it.

Hold the knee jerk, folks. Has anyone even tried to go down the rabbit hole here?

@A_Gracious_Plenty: Fine. You're just gonna have to pry him from between my Xenia Onatopp-ish thighs.

Excuse me, but McSteamy's totally worth getting in a catfight over. Yeah, I said catfight. I'm not afraid to conjure up some gender stereotypes if I have to. Bring. It.

I am so upset he was asked by... a lot of folks not to perform at Parkpot in The Hague last Sunday. I mean, yeah yeah, talk of warring gangs, whatever. I just wanted to see Snoop!

@filthygorgeous: No worries. I get it. I actually spent a year in Virginia while a friend spent some time in California, and she's been trying to get one leg up on me by having resided in a "cool" state, so I know how it feels.

@filthygorgeous: Oh hon, I'm sorry tone doesn't really translate on the internet, because I was being tongue in cheek and she was in on it. But thanks for coming to her defense nonetheless.

@pleppy: I've been there several times and had shittons of fun. Even two days before Christmas. It's all in the mentality.

@Le Kangourou de Kataroo: Yeah, talk about humour failure. Next you're gonna tell me you don't crack up at a well-delivered blonde joke.

@LadyTudorRose: The logical solution would be a cultural/linguistic shift that would make us use gender neutral pronouns (ze, hir etc.) until a person professes a preference for a gender specific pronoun (he, she). If they don't, one would stick with the gender neutral one.

@gherkinfiend: Also true. I just really noticed in the past year that so many young women don't even see anything but bare as an option any more, so as someone who's too lazy and itchy to do anything more that a half-hearted little shave before I hit the pool, I do enjoy hair-support.

@gherkinfiend: True, but while (pop) culture is majorly pushing shaving/waxing/hairlessness, I appreciate support for hair.

Ethics and philosophy professors. I feel like they should be interviewed by Bill Cosby, because they say the darndest things.

@alula: Apparently he was questioned for 48 hours straight. According to Dutch news he was intimidated, but not physically hurt. The Netherlands might be a small country, but it can kick up a diplomatic storm when it wants to.