You can always tell a Milford Maid.

This one's good, for starters: [www.economist.com]

You obviously have made up your mind on how these people think and feel as it fits into a wider worldview. I won't try and change that. What I will say is that a few minutes spent Googling cross-party friendship groups in Europe (and particularly the UK, where the contrast between debate floor fireworks and bar-room…

Certain exams in certain subjects, at least at my uni, are graded Pass, Merit, Distinction instead of using regular measures. Law is one, not sure about others. It can also apparently mean an exceptional First, although I hadn't heard that before - not something I need to worry about, with my academic standards :D

Yes, but as far as I know Susan B. Anthony never launched childish personal attacks on her opponents or rejected anyone she knew who didn't share her exact views, which is all these women are trying to combat. They even make sure to emphasise that they remain professional opponents. Being able to separate the position…

I don't think that's a fair analysis of what the poster was saying. The message is pretty clear IMO. Yes, technically things are decided by voting, but do you really think there is no appreciable difference in a nation with a civil public discourse and one with a raving rabble of screeching demogogues hurling…

In all honesty, I probably wouldn't care if he hadn't also been a pretty lousy senator. At least with some historical figures you can use their other achievements to offset any unsavoury views they might have had...

This sounds like a sensible and delicious course of action on the part of America's lady senators.

Hmm, it's by far the most common grade, though. With a First, you can more or less walk into the career of your choice (well, that's the general belief - not sure if that's still true with the job market the way it is). Someone posted the stats upthread, and 80% of people got a 2:1. With only four grade divisions, it…

An ordinary degree is a non-Honours course, and it's not generally offered anywhere anymore. I had never heard of it myself, it's explained on that same entry.

I quite like Adolph, because the way the Americans pronounce it 'Ay-dolf' means that to me it is completely divorced from Hitler, whose first name is pronounced 'Ah-dolf' in British English. And spelt with an F (although I think that's now standard in US English, too, probably because we no longer have any need an…

I hear you. Always thought Myrna had a nice ring to it. Plus, Myrna Loy was an awesome actress and a very classy dame. What more could some ungrateful hypothetical future brat want??

Although I laughed fulsomely as I read through this article... it didn't stop me being intrigued by this drink. Oh gosh, I'm such a Blueberry Pomegranate! Where's the nearest off license? Even better, can you still get drinks sent up to you like on old movie hotels?

Kalender...something...somethine...NSDAP? Please, please tell me this is a 'buff guys of the Nazi party calendar', of the kind good Deutscher madels would have pinned inside their lockers. It can't be, right?

Don't worry, I'm fairly sure God wouldn't touch Himmler with a bargepole.

Society does not raise women to be friends. The fact that they are is a tribute to our humanity. Women are socialised to see other women as competition and treat them as such. Of course, it doesn't always take, but it takes just often enough to leave a lot of women with the vague feeling that others are out to get…

Wow, it must have taken him forever to do that much extensive background research on the moral integrity of every guest attending and individually decide which ones were living lives worthy of communion.

I confess to being a tiny bit of a #1, with a dash of #2, in that I think there is way more external pressure on girls especially in the teenage years, possibly making #1 concerns seem more valid. Not to the extent that having a girl would disappoint me in any way (should you even be having a kid if there's a 50%…

While comparing the specific stereotype brought up by the author with similar ones faced by other groups can be relevant and interesting, some of the comments on this thread and ones like it approach what I guess you could call empathy-trolling - like when you're telling a friend about some shitty thing that happened…

To be honest, I think we might as well give her the benefit of the doubt there anyway. Seems to my reading that she's saying Latina women are the only ones who suffer from this stereotype... of angry Latina. Not that they are the only ones who are stereotyped as being angry.