He can be pansexual and fall in love with a woman. That’s...what being pansexual is? Feeling attraction to all genders?

I was actually a bit surprised by the women’s lib day scene, given that movie Deadpool and comic Deadpool are both confirmed pansexual.

I actually once read an article where someone posited that Stewart would be excellent as the sort of stoic, tough action/war hero that big dudes usually get to play, especially now that she’s got the lesbian-lite look going on. IDK why she keeps taking these romantic lead roles instead of going in that direction.

Um, the labia is not the point of FGM, the clitoris is.

I think men would have a lot more success on dating sites if they stopped being fucking creepy on them. You know why I stopped online dating? Because 90% of the messages I got from men either began with A) a derogatory comment about other women (“Boy, it’s nice to see a girl who reads!”) B) a comment about my…

You are misreading the quote. What that quote means is that, for women, being killed is an actual outcome they have to worry about when they break up with a man/reject a man’s advances, because it is just that common. Men do not have to worry about this, because it is very very rare for a man to be murdered by a woman…

Tech had this guy for what, 6 months? Whatever fucked him up isn’t on them. They are quite right to protect the rest of their student body from a child murderer.

There’s actually pretty good reasons to do this. Felonies take a long time to prosecute. Suspension means he is taken out of his classes without failing them (which is a totally reasonable protection for people who may be innocent). It also deactivates his ID and stops him from gaining access to campus buildings, also…

You can’t just buy the homes and knock them down. You have to resettle those people. You have to find them jobs in their new areas. You have to get the new school districts to accept the influx of kids. Plenty won’t want to move because they’ve got family in the area or ties to their homes, and plenty of others are…

They thought no one would notice.

That’s not fair. The scarcity of nurses in school districts (especially in Michigan, which has a fucked up education system) has nothing to do with a lack of applicants. School districts literally only have the budget for the one nurse required by federal law. My relatively well-off, white-majority school district cut…

I’m also from Michigan. We used to have a nurse at every school, and over the course of my time there it went down to one per level...then one for the whole district. It was pretty weird (we also went down to one librarian). And we were in a “well-off” district.

Not off the top of my head—I learned about this in a college class on ancient civ several years ago. I *think* the history channel did a much-dramatized special on medicine in the ancient world where they mentioned it though?

Except he didn’t say anything about Christians. ISIS also embraces a (different) form of creationism. Try not to jerk that knee so hard.

Well, the Babylonians that the Muslims conquered were not the same Babylonians in the article. There’s about 600 years of cultural turnover there. But I think you’re probably right in that people at least had the knowledge of this technique existing, even if they didn’t have the technique itself. In a world where…

Well, from what I’ve heard a lot of it was probably medical and agricultural knowledge rather than pure sciences. Like anesthesia is almost certainly something that was lost there, and there’s quite a bit of evidence that people in west Africa were performing surgeries on major organs (how well this went is anybody’s…

Not everyone who uses a wheelchair is paralyzed. Lots of people have conditions like RA that make walking longer distances impossible/painful. I know a woman who has a condition where her joints will dislocate themselves if she walks very much at all. But she can still stand up to grab things if she needs to.

Um, many disabled people don’t feel that their lives are “built in sadness.”

Maybe Rey’s mother had a lick of sense and hid her against Luke’s will when it sounded like things were going south. And maybe she even intended to retrieve her, but then died.

First of all, an IQ of 70 is borderline as far as mental ability goes. It’s perfectly likely that—especially in rural places—she would’ve just been the “slow girl”. Secondly, I was speaking more generally about how communities used to have support systems in the absence of state support systems that shored up…