Your headline is blatantly false, though. God knows the last thing I want to be spending my time on is defending Rubio, but he straight up said he’s fine with Muslims who don’t convert so long as they’re friendly and/or love America. There’s plenty to criticise about the dude without misrepresenting his statement.

I don’t think that necessarily follows, though. It might be true that she feels ashamed/inadequate, and I expect some people who get surgery to modify their bodies do feel that way, sure. But, say, my tattoo wasn’t about being unhappy with how I was before - it was about changing my body to be something I liked more. A…

I have a sincerely held religious belief that children are property, and therefore must be placed in the cargo hold.

Yeah, I’m wondering now if cemetaries are theologically considered to have infinite vertical extension, because I could see this making space travel really difficult.

And you’re drawing an arbitrary distinction. The ultra-orthodox Jews are one subset of Judaism that have interpreted their beliefs as severely restricting contact with women. Ultra-fundamentalist Christians are one subset of Christianity that interpret their beliefs as severely restricting contact with things of the…

Okay. So the next time I’m on a flight with some fundamentalist Christians, should the airline make sure in advance that they’re okay with their kid being sat next to a lesbian who might speak openly and positively about her partner? Or her atheism, or liberal politics, or whatever? Or hell, even just put a movie on…

Yep. I was thinking about kosher meals more in the context of accommodating this dude’s beliefs by moving him instead, or asking people on check-in if they have a problem being around women and arranging seats accordingly. Things that maybe don’t put any specific woman out directly, but is still creating women-free…

I don’t mind an airline accommodating this dude’s religious beliefs by, say, giving him a kosher meal. Because that’s a reasonable thing which doesn’t involve anyone else in any way.

Do you think you’d feel the same way if it was someone else demanding the airline work to accommodate his refusal to sit next to the guy in this article because he had a problem with Jews?

It seems pretty easy to me; your sincerely held religious beliefs don’t give you the right to discriminate against others, or to get someone else to do so on your behalf. And if those beliefs mean you’re incapable of doing your job, you get to find a new job.

Likewise, I refuse to believe that there’s no way Sony can cut their own ties to Dr Luke, even if it takes some time. The fact that they’re willing to keep working with someone like that does not impress me.

Done.

I had a few months of really bad cramping awhile back that I used a hot water bottle for, except that the temperature high enough to help was apparently also high enough to give me low-grade burns with sustained use. My stomach’s now permanently (i.e., it’s been two years without improvement in spite of no more heat…

Exactly. I mean, I don’t have hard quotas or anything, but I definitely sit down to write thinking, “I’m going to write a story that has POC in it, and not simply in minor or stereotypical roles.” Then I look at my nebulous cast of characters early on and decide how I’m going to make that happen, using those decisions…

Yeah, I have to say that one of the things that pushed me to the point of saying I wasn’t going to see my father except at mutual relatives’ houses any longer is that I don’t want my future kids to know grandpa as he is when there’s no audience to keep thinking well of him, and I want this policy well established by…

It sounds like your husband isn’t happy if he doesn’t find you physically attractive all the time, though, and he’s putting the responsibility for that on you. Personally, I would find that kind of constant pressure exhausting and stressful, and exhaustion and stress are not what I look for in a relationship.

Hah, St Andrews? I remember that; same thing I thought of too.

I feel like this is one of the upsides of being a lesbian, since finding things that look great about other women comes pretty naturally to me!

Catholics only say the Pope is infallible when he’s speaking ex cathedra, though, and they don’t even agree on what all counts as instances as such; they’ve left themselves a lot of wriggle room.

Yep, looks like it’s limited to 10 live births per donor.