I'm a bit confused though, how come we've gone to the measurements (flaccid) straight to sex?

"#Gamergate on Twitter; an ancillary hashtag,#notyourshield, is hatched by minorities, women, and LGBTQ gamers who agree with Gamergate and disagree with writers who they feel are misrepresenting them"

...I'd route for the bull tbfh. the guy was stupid enough to himself in the position to get gored in the first place. the bull didn't have much choice in the matter.

Good response by Garcia, I thought though.

"And Vaillancourt doesn't just stop at sexism: he reportedly shouted "Sieg Heil," the Nazi salute, during a rambunctious floor discussion."

There aren't rules. A genuine and sincere question where you aren't intending to trick a person, just talk to someone, is fine as far as I'm concerned....Whatever gender, whatever walk of life.

"This is why I always wear headphones and sunglasses at all times while using public transportation solo. If it were socially acceptable to also smoke an oversized corncob pipe on the subway platform as an additional way to convey social unavailability, I'd do that too."

/applauds

"Jonathan Yardley, a Pulitzer-winning critic known for utter decisiveness"

Yeah, I thought it was gonna be like a where's wally page or something :(

Wa...? How is this even a question. Bugger etiquette, given a choice it needs to be as accessible for grabbing as possible.

Adorbs. There were some profoundly tolerant cats there, especially the tom getting his ear licked; I'm just going to pretend to be asleep and hope he goes away :p The tabby with the litter of pups was also extremely cute, mum comes in to check that everything's ok "it's cool! we were just playing!"

"It's unfortunate that what was meant to be a light-hearted workshop to engage students was taken out of context and misinterpreted."

That's amazing.

"Catbug"

Indeed. My main thought looking at those photos wasn't "Wow, those women look unhappy while their men watch sports" (which I think was the intended message?) it was "whoa. those guys look like total dumbasses." Or worse, they actually look like cartoons of total dumbasses.

Ok, but I would argue that the public view and belief there is wrong - being as it is, based on a generalisation. (and also, spending decades not thinking or learning about something, then judging one individual and generalising to the whole, is fairly ignorant. and while you can say a lot of people *are* ignorant, I…

The only one I've had that reaction to was in EVE, the adrenaline made my hand shake. Or being a thief in UO actually, when about to swipe something my heart was beating fast.

Huh. The original UFO has probably taken years off my life.

Heh, I had the same reaction :)