Someone commented on another post:

In Chernobyl a very signicant drop in life expectancy ( 7 years!) was observed in displaced populations.

I’ve mentioned that before...if someone from another land (or planet) spent the weekend watching the TV, they would swear all Black women were extremely fair, with no discernible African features and long curly hair. But the brothas...chocolatey as get out.

Except that people would be outraged and definitely not apologize for calling out the writer on the mistake. And the comment would be at the top of the page, not buried in the greys.

It’s not annoying. It’s embarrassing that gawker writers care so little about the geography of different countries. They could write a PhD thesis on the difference between Manhattan neighbourhoods, but only know one city on the entire continent of Australia and talk of Africa and Europe as if they were countries

Because they were too busy building cathedrals to unify, obviously.

it's not annoying! gawker blogs continually assume that there is only one city in Australia and it is simultaneously the beach and the outback.

If you plan your parenthood, then the terrorists win!

As someone studying fairy tales at uni (my job prospects sparkle!) not all European fairy tales are bad. There was a big push to make princesses more docile, but initially it was different. For example, a Cinderella-like princesses who kill an ogre to get to the party (by offering to brush the ogres hair for the…

Yeah, the not-quite-synced talking was going to give me a headache, so I just didn’t watch the rest of the video. Easy solution that has nothing to do with them.

I’m being annoying, but Sunny Coast local means Sunshine Coast in Queensland. It actually says Queensland in the linked article. Sydney is in New South Wales. It’s about a 15 hour drive between them. Again, I’m being annoying. So everyone referenced in this article is up north. Sydney is down the bottom, but not so…

As a Children’s Librarian in a public library, I have to tell you this is not the case in many libraries. Many library systems have gone to pre-selected collections from distributors like Baker and Taylor. It saves them the salary of a librarian dedicated to collection development, which is a full time job at anything…

To be fair I do think his point was that Italian explorers went to work for Spain (and Portugal too) because “Italy” didn’t hire them. Like, in his imagination, there are all these explorers hanging around but the “Italian” government cares more about cathedrals and won’t pay them. So he knew the first part.

I read the NYT story. It stated that several ISIS fighters didn’t even know the Quran and had to be taught the rules for engaging in the sexual abuse of these women. It just shows that these people are MINOs (Muslims in Name Only) and not actually practitioners of the faith. Several other outlets have reported the…

I’m now waiting for those same Republicans to proclaim Planned Parenthood the ISIS of American promulgating sexual slavery here. Unless they’ve already done that and I missed it.

I feel like somehow the Republicans will turn this into another reason to try to keep women from obtaining contraception — OH, YOU WANT THE ISIS PILLS, HUH??

I believe Malala Yusafsai was entirely correct when she told Obama that investing in education for girls would have been far more of an efficient method of combating terrorism than the drone program, or the support of rival fighter groups. Preventative or restorative investments in civil society and infrastructure are…

That is not at all why a lot of women are objecting to legalization (vs decriminalization, which is not the same). It’s more about the fact that legalization does not in any way at all guarantee that the person being paid for sex is doing it willingly. As many here have noted, sex trafficking INCREASED in the…

Woman here as well. I lived in the Netherlands - it’s legal, sure, it’s also filled with women who were coerced and trafficked and kidnapped into being prosititutes, mostly immigrants. And even for the local Dutch prostitutes who may just be putting themselves through school, it’s generally not something they list on…

This poor woman. I’m glad he’s dead, I’m sorry it took so long, and I hope she gets the chance to rebuild her life.