That's only your opinion. Most doctors and scientists up on the latest findings will disagree. Out of curiosity, is your opinion what it is because of religious beliefs?

I’m sorry that is unreasonably cruel. I have suffered from mental illness (severe depression). Without medical intervention I would be dead (and honestly it was worse to go through than the cancer I’ve also had). Mental illnesses totally fall into the category of medical diseases/conditions. Just because someone is a…

You're implying that mental illness should not be treated or is not medical. :-(

Ooooh. I totally want to do this (and it’s in my neighbourhood, yay!) Do I lose my Jezebel card for supporting this?

I haven’t played NMS yet, but have borrowed a PS4 and bought the game so I will be trying it out tonight. NMS looks completely awesome and it’s the ‘slow’ non-competitive, non-violent gameplay that’s intriguing. I happen to be female and like to engage in typically creative tasks, so I’m probably not thought of as the…

Once again I have never said that you defended rape. You are however holding sacrosanct and inviolable an academic interpretation of events and stories from thousands of years ago, cast with their own historical and cultural bias. These interpretations should be examined in modern light as well as in historical…

I never said that you defended rape AT ALL. What I am saying is that you are colluding with an academic opinion that is held to be sacrosanct because it is the predominant academic opinion.

I never said you defended rape. I said you’re defending ‘this crap’, where ‘this crap’ == centuries of apologetic academic interpretations of fucked up bible stories. The fact that men have interpreted this bullshit for millennia, for their own benefit, certainly colours said interpretations. Point it out sure, but…

So then you are totally okay with defending this crap?

You’re defending this scholarship as somehow sacrosanct when it was almost certainly written over many very macho centuries exclusively by men. I think the explanations you are have cited are twisted and apologetic, and I don't think they should be held up as the One True Truth.

So why is the concubine not considered a guest as well?

I used them as examples of the quality of the area. I can go to the Tate Modern (or Tate Britain), the National Gallery, the Natural History Museum (curated by David Attenborough) numerous high quality theatres, amazing food markets, music venues, and experience a wide variety of cultures and scenes (and the place is…

I dunno. I live in London and I think it’s cool to be living within walking distance of both the Magna Carta and the Rosetta Stone (both free to see). Smaller cities may have museums and nightlife and whatnot, but some cities are just on a different level. London aces all the categories (except maybe cycling; there’s…

Oh absolutely, plain as day. One point of clarification though is that Nigel Farage was the leader of UKIP, a far right-wing party, and not the Conservatives so he would have had no chance of becoming PM, and never would have any responsibility for carrying out Brexit. He’s just a man who wants to see the world burn.

The fact that they treat 'sorcery' as a crime, a thing that does not exist, is proof enough that their justice system is completely bonkers.

Yeah, I came here to say the same thing. It wouldn't apply in New York though.

I also have to say, having learned about this when I was little, it was one of the things that put me off the idea of ever getting pregnant. It was horrifying to think of my unborn aunts/uncles as stone statues.

This happened to my grandmother, at least once, possibly twice. She miscarried twins (each fetus miscarried separately a few weeks apart), and also miscarried a twin of one of my uncles. I think it happened with the set of twins, which is why I say twice. I believe it must have been uterine though since she expelled…

I would say, get tested each time you donate (or donate plasma). If it's consistently A neg, I'd say the original test was indeed probably faulty (simplest explanation). However, there are several rare blood types, and there may yet bet further undiscovered types. These could also result in different test results (not…

That's the thing, I don't (these) men are coming from a place of empathy at all in this debate. There doesn't seem to be any effort to try to understand what any of it feels like or what contemplating consequences actually means for a woman. It's frankly a little bizarre. Anyway, sorry you had to go through that…