That's a crock of shit.

Don't intentionally mis-read what she was saying. She wasn't calling geeks losers for being geeks, she was calling them losers for being misogynist.

Some of use bloomed during or after high school.

I should have been less absolute in my phrasing, and probably not have accepted the premise that it's possible to separate out ethics from the practice of medicine. Also, the mental state of the patient is completely relevant to what treatment is even legal.

Yeah. Someone had trouble picturing, so I painted it for them.

As an OT, she probably has extensive training on how to do this and a few connections to shops which can do any required machining for her. If she wants to make this for real, she's the person to do it.

Something something funeral potatoes.

Two clean cut, well groomed, handsome young men on bikes knock on your door.

I haven't talked at all about pay disparity. I know you think it's relevant, but you're honestly just changing the subject to something slightly tangental because you think you can win that argument. I've talked purely about women entering the field and the transition of math and programming to "men's work" as it…

I didn't say women engineers got paid less. I said as engineering became a status job, women got pushed out. Suddenly, after many many years of women having "computer" as a profession, women in the 50s and 60s were being told they were naturally not as good at math as men. Because in the 50s and 60s, technology got…

When a skill becomes "man's work" (because it pays well and is valuable), women get driven out of it. This is not the first time that's happened.

I also cried a little.

I cared for people with developmental disabilities for a while (I am now out of direct care), and some of them were black. I had to do some really furious googling because asking a billion questions of my black co-workers didn't seem respectful.

Here, let me google that and read you a basic bioethics text.

Minors can't legally consent. And you fucking bet that kid gets both sedation if he or she is freaked out and anesthetic.

I know you are trolling, but many of the prisoners who spent years in Gitmo who have received trials were found not guilty.

From a purely technical standpoint, there is anesthetic, and a professional will not do this on a tense adult. It's dangerous.

Not without sedation, and not involuntarily. I worked with medically fragile adults with developmental disabilities and we NEVER did this with an awake person. It was too uncomfortable to expect anyone with diminished capacity to understand, and they might try to pull the thing out to get rid of it. We used g-tubes…

I've read that these hunger strikes started when a new set of leadership came in and saw that the previous leadership allowed them to have nice things, like entertainment and prayer groups and some privacy during the day and occasional nice food, and decided all that needed to go.

It's a soap (as opposed to a detergent), which means the PH is a little low. Your vagina is a little bit acidic. Good flora like it a little bit acidic. Bad flora like it more basic.