If it helps, I was raised Catholic and I judge the hell out of Catholicism too. I’m just not on board with religion institutions that treat one gender differently than the other. But just because I have my opinion doesn’t mean I don’t support folks’ right to practice whatever religion they please. I’ll never support…

Six sentences in that paragraph: FML, one sentence too many.

I’m just going to the grocery store, Grandma! I don’t have to dress up and do my hair for that!

Yeah, dream on. Dress codes aren’t exclusively built to oppress women, says the guy required to wear a suit and tie every goddamn day. You can argue that notions of formality might be outdated, but if so, then men should have the same flexibility of wardrobe afforded to women, particularly in summer months. FWIW, I…

By how they speak? Because if you get a gang of white people in a room, half of whom are Canadian, I probably wouldn’t be able to tell you who’s who until someone asks, “what’s all this about?” Then I’d know for sure.

I wish to apologize if I sounded Islamophobic. And I suppose I am risking entering “not Islamophobic, but” territory and it’s probably something I need to work on. Perhaps I should have been more clear: I wish to separate religious beliefs (which can be Islamic, Christian, what have you) from how those beliefs are…

We dont want you dressing fumpy here either. Cant you put on something nice? What about this? How about that one dress I like? And why is your hair always up? ;-)

“Correcting a minor usage error” is now “signing up for personal insults and attacks” because you are a god damned lunatic. Check.

I agree with you in spirit, I guess (although the person I’m actually responding to was in fact specifically talking about the heat), but in practice no one anywhere can just wear “whatever they want.” Everybody everywhere on earth is choosing their clothing every day based on what they want tempered by what they…

<<When I lived in Saudi Arabia I was only a boy (79-81)>>

I think what I love most about this whole thing is that you’ve been calling everyone childish for mentioning a minor mistake, but you have come across far stronger as the childish one.

Judaism and Christianity both had similar, widespread, views in the past and there are still factions today that do.

I don’t care about typos. I do care about consistent misuse of words, because a person could misuse that word for years and not realize, and maybe one day it’ll get them in legal trouble or torpedo a job application or just be embarrassing. It’s like talking to someone who has a huge piece of food stuck to their…

I so agree with this. My background is part North African, and we cover in the sun. Men in Jordan cover their heads, too, traditionally, because you will bake to a crisp if you are not covered; especially in nomadic/bedouin cultures.

please keep in mind that we’re not talking about Islam here, but governance. many Muslim women are free in other countries to wear what they like. Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, for instance, are secular with majority Muslim populations, whose women enjoy many more freedoms than in Saudi Arabia.

Right. Isn’t it amazing how so many gods are racist, sexist, homophobic, unreasonable, and vengeful? Almost like they are created in the image of the people that worship them.

Just FYI, modest dress for men is also a tenant of Islam, it’s just the ways that different cultures interpret those tenants, and primarily how avidly they’re enforced, that are inconsistent.

Sounds like you’re just looking for an internet argument. Peace out✌🏽

I can understand that being disappointing, but why worrying? Superstition of some sort has always existed in humans.

I used to read tarot all the time, less so now. Anyone can learn the cards and read tarot, you don’t need to be a psychic to do it. People tell me how great my tarot readings are/were, how everything came true, etc., but I have no psychic ability whatsoever. First of all—they’re vague cards, so a lot of it is going to…