Oh man I've been burned so badly by this, from both sides of the story, including three nights out with a guy who was a "close friend" that I had a wicked crush on, and who seemed to really enjoy blurring that line. Turns out those weren't dates, oh well. On the flip side, I spent a fun evening out with a guy I'd…

I don't see the ZOMG panikkkk hookup cultuur!! here. The truth of the matter is that men and women are free to be friends, just friends, start-as-friends-stay-as-friends-no-matter-how-drunk-we-get in a way that has never really been the case before (generationally speaking). Both men and women are interested in…

Isn't this kind of a nice problem to have? The origin of the formal "date" concept was that women and men had very little unchaperoned social opportunity together. Women didn't work with men, or if they did it was in a clearly inferior role. Women and men got married very young. The social interactions in the brief…

We rarely date in New Zealand (this is changing a bit with internet dating). I think I'm fairly typical in that I can only think of a couple of romantic encounters I've had that I would call dates, but I have had several boyfriends.

imagine that news report. between this or being trampled by cows, i think that most of the deaths i've had in the sims would be ones that would definitely make the vicar chuckle

Pre-patch Sims sounds more fun than post-patch Sims.

Looking at those points, I would agree with you - Elizabeth's character was on the ball; it's a shame that we don't get more of that with the recurring characters.

No one has to stop loving River Song, or Clara, or Amy. I never said that. I'm saying we deserve better.

What's the point of that? Anyone can pop on the Interwebs and say that this or that sucks. I like to give a cogent argument as to my reasons :-)

THAT'S how we sneak Whedon into British scifi. Bam. ;)

So here's a fun game. All those people out there who were suggesting non-white and/or female candidates to play the Doctor (and all those people who were dead against the idea but insisted it had nothing to do with being racist or sexist). Anyone want to suggest a potential showrunner for Doctor Who who isn't a white…

When I was younger, in the pre-Davies Wilderness Years when rumours of a revival flitted about, I had only one requirement: that the showrunner both love the show, and understand what makes the show appealing to its fans.

It makes me sad that every name on this list is a white man. Not a reflection on the author, I realize, but I'm rooting for a female showrunner.

I almost never visit Jez anymore and this crap is why.

And how does a person respond to something like this? How does a woman who started reading this website as a teenager, who used to seek refuge here when her ideas about gender and equality were shot down by her friends, peers, and sometimes even family, who for some reason imagined this place as being a center for…

Ah yes, Celts. Fearsome and fabulous. Funny how Celts were the uncivilized ones, but women had a bit more respect there than in the so called civil culture of ancient Rome. Same thing appears with the Norse cultures versus christianity. Seems like if I had to time travel (would rather not), the barbaric, heathen…

I agree with you that there needs to be a degree of intention weighed in in the ruling of the court. However, and this is where my mind starts to implode, we have had a law called "in good faith" that has acquitted people who have unknowingly been buying stolen property. Ofc that happens a lot at Blocket, the Swedish…

I'm no lawyer, but in one of the most serious situations imaginable — the death of another human being — there's a term for a murder you didn't intend. It's called manslaughter, and by its very definition, it's a crime you can be found guilty of even though you didn't intend for anyone to die.

Those diamonds WANT you to have them. They are INTO IT. The thought has not occurred to me that the diamonds do not already belong to you. Therefore, it is not stealing to take them.