Makes me think of the maid from Family Guy...

No, you see, he's AGAINST the quotas. He DOESN'T want the percentage of the country's population to be a factor in hiring.

"...but there's less women writing scripts and out there looking for the job."

A girl is placed before a toy box containing Barbie dolls, X-Men action figures, and Legos. She pick up and starts playing with a Barbie doll. A researcher calls this the product of heteronormative conditioning. I tell her that's a specious conclusion. The researcher asks, "Then why DID she pick up the Barbie?"

Wait till he tells a sexist joke, then castigate him.

I kinda sorta don't see the problem. First off, white and black soldiers serve together currently, so racist jokes (which I'm sure exist) would have a different tenor, as do all jokes told in the company of members of the target group vs. without such members present. Secondly, if I knew a black man who said to me,…

The bond between you and the person you're married to is stronger than the bond between you and a squadmate.

Cool, now make them register for the draft.

I was seriously under the impression that sex work, prostitution at least, which this article discusses, is indeed a crime everywhere but Nevada. Why are we talking like it isn't?

Prreeeeeeeety sure she's got other rationales besides that one.

I'm holding my hand up to give you an epic high-five right now.

And don't get me wrong, of course. I think it's a quite poorly written piece as well. Interestingly, I went from reading this to my Orwell collection, and the next essay up was his famous "Politics and the English Language." I felt compelled to quote several of his sentences here, but I didn't see enough of a point.…

"Every meaningful relationship has a profound impact on us and to think those can leave, even in the simplest of facets, is an exercise in absurdity."

If my English major is working properly, when you said, "Even the worship leader at the Church I work for knows the bible isn't to be taken literally," the appropriate inference is that you don't, either. You and lots of others are in the "don't take it literally" group, and EVEN your worship leader is as well. At the…

Ugh, don't say it like that, if you please. The Bible isn't to be taken COMPLETELY literally. As in, God didn't literally create Adam last and then create him first, but Jesus did literally ressurect from death.

I have heard of that argument. I can't really believe the person who thought it up thought it effectively mirrored the status of pregnancy. I had nothing to do with the violinist's state, so as an American, I have no onus to sacrifice nine months of my life to keep him alive (though as a Christian, I'd like to think I…

(1) That's true. Still leaves you with anti-abortion advocates, though.

Twenty-six, virgin, abstinent, waiting for a wife that may never come. “Sexual gratification is not a sacred right, and celibacy is not a fate worse than death.” -Richard Hays

I don't know a single evangelical who doesn't want the wife working a good job. The closest you'll hear from the rational voices are that the Bible places the onus of breadwinning on the father, so stay-at-home dad is a no-no. Most people don't believe that, either, though.