Happens in Asia too. Taiwanese men literally buy young Vietnamese, Chinese or Thai women because they feel Taiwanese women are "too demanding".

It's a bit more complicated than that in my observation (I live in Asia too). What you say is often true - but there are other cultural forces that pressure women to be subservient wives in other ways (for example, in Taiwan, while this is starting to change, there is still a cultural current in which women pressured…

OK. Fair enough. Quite big of you to admit it.

Hey yo, are you really going to say that someone who's family is Thai (or at least part of his family, it's not clear, whatever) can't go explore the culture of his ethnic heritage? Really? That's cultural appropriation too?

Isn't this the color of a flavored potato chip?

I do. I would drink coffee that actually has pumpkin flavor in it (and I am pretty sure they add a fake powdered 'pumpkin' flavor to the spice mix, but it doesn't taste very good). I love pumpkin. :( As referenced above, I cook with it all the time. It's delicious, not nasty.

I still disagree. My pumpkin with pesto pasta is pretty delicious.

Not really...pumpkin pie spice is just spices (protip: it tastes super amazeballs to grind your own whole spices - nutmeg, clove, cinnamon, allspice, you could even throw some cardamom or anise in there but maybe not both - better than the powder in a little tub that looks like sawdust). You add it to actual pumpkin -…

No it doesn't! If anything I like actual pumpkin more than pumpkin spice! I buy small organic pumpkins here in Asia (they don't look like the Halloween kind but are definitely pumpkins), seed and skin' em, and cut 'em into chunks, which I saute in a pan with caramelizing onions and garlic in olive oil over low-medium…

I can imagine leaving New York - I'm from the state, have never lived in the city, but totally get it - but I can't imagine leaving New York for LA. I can't imagine why someone would think it's a good idea if they're a hard-titted New Yorker. The two cultures just don't mesh well.

I don't see at all why it doesn't feel right to have snack bars and frozen meals in the house if someone gets cranky with no food. In fact, it's surprising that this wasn't his idea and he didn't go out to buy those things himself, because he's an adult and he ostensibly knows that he gets cranky when he's hungry.…

Yeah, traveling as I do, I can't empty it out every 4-6 hours. When you're on a 10-hour bus or overnight train with only a train bathroom, that's just not going to work. It gets too messy. I've tried. With tampons and pads at least it's almost all absorbed in the pad and you can wad it up with toilet paper and throw…

Nope, sorry, I am super heavy flow with chunks and very irregular. It's not the cup/fit, it's me. It happens with tampons too (which I have to change once an hour or so, usually, sometimes less. If I get a big chunk it could literally be a change after 10 minutes). I flow way too much to wash it out "once a day". My…

I feel like it could be flattering if the V were lower, and she stood up straight (the slouch! the slouch!) and...something changed with the skirt, or the waistline, I dunno.

I tried it. Didn't work for me. It leaked, it got full of gross chunks, it got all over my hands, I never had private facilities in which to wash it when it needed it during the day (and it did) without worrying someone'd walk in...just did not work for me. And when I travel (mostly in Asia) it really, really wouldn't…

I read a short story based on that (same author I believe, and the 'camel race' was an extract) and...well, it didn't seem to be a tourist trap, as by her accounting there weren't any tourists there. At all. Which is pretty rare in Morocco (so says a friend of mine who lived there for a year and visited many times…

How many non-Muslim women are also told they are responsible for rape?

And I disagree. Basic critical thinking principles can also be taught in certain liberal arts classes. Someone who has learned to think critically in another area is as likely to be correct when asked to comment on scientific ideas as a scientist who can think critically (you'd be surprised - plenty can't. There are…

You use critical thinking skills, which can be picked up in training for any number of fields, many of which I've listed below.

You really, honestly don't think critiquing literature, or doing discourse analysis/applied linguistics, or critiquing economic models, or discussing and debating philosophy, or learning about and executing the fundamentals of professional journalism, or delving into criticisms and analyses of historical events, or…