"Seriously, though, like—did Professor Sprout change her name to Professor Sprout AFTER she became an Herbology teacher? Did Newt Scamander go into care of magical creatures because his name is a slimy lizard-frog, or is it the other way around??? WHAT IF EMERIC SWITCH WANTED TO STUDY ARITHMANCY INSTEAD OF…

I work at a preschool and it really solidifies the need for more appropriate role models. A three-year-old girl at my school told me like two weeks ago that she couldn't be a princess because princesses have blonde hair (she is Hispanic and has dark skin).

I am amused by the fact that you featured reviews written by Jezebel ex-pats.

You really think the cognitive calculus of "standing in front of a bullet: will this help me produce babies?" comes out on the side that FAVORS standing in front of a bullet? I find that highly improbable. A highly improbable claim requires strong evidence and you clearly do not have strong evidence.

"There are instances well into development after plasticity has begun in ernest" [sic]. Um, your brain is always plastic. Otherwise you would never recover from a stroke. Furthermore, your brain is at one of the periods of greatest plasticity during adolescence. The only way to know if it is cultural is to do…

Silver lining: The comments on this post can serve as evidence that racism still exists whenever you are arguing with someone who thinks America is post-racial!

"I don't judge women for the reasons they abort I just don't happen to agree with most cases."

At 10-months-old having DS is not going to affect your ability to have a say in whether or not people take photos of you.

Establishing neurochemical differences in male and female brains does not even establish that those differences are innate due to neuroplasticity in the developing brain- if you put people in different environments, which is what gender socialization does, you get different brain structures, let ALONE establish that…

Any adult, regardless of gender and relation to the infant, who would lay a four-month-old baby on the ground to get trampled or shot during a crisis is not only a coward, but a seriously shitty human being.

Good thing they look EXACTLY THE FUCKING SAME before and after, so that won't be a problem.

Larissa was one of the many regular commenters who jumped ship after the comment system change. I actually have been gone for about a month, crazily enough... but I thought I would check in today and see how things are going.

Clicked on that Angelina Jolie link.

If they thought she was the villain, they clearly didn't understand the point of the movie.

I saw this yesterday and I enjoyed it a great deal! I read the io9 review before seeing it and I am even more entertained by the ridiculousness of the snarky comments on that article now that I have seen it. Basically, the commenters seemed to agree that Brave was simultaneously exactly the same as Mulan, exactly the…

There's a few of us, but we're in the solid minority on this site.

I am very pro-sexting, but please don't violate the terms of your relationship with your significant other. Either have an open relationship (or open it up to allow sexting with others), be single, or sext your significant other exclusively.

Okay, if you think I am putting the horse before the cart: How do you suggest one go about preventing someone from doing this? In vitro fertilization requires that you do a lot of eggs, because usually most of them will not implant. So do you require that an individual do one at a time, at great cost to not only their…

Don't advocate for eugenics. It makes you a terrible human being.

Eating Combos gets rid of nail salons (or something)?