A GREAT POINT MADE BY MY COLLEAGUE STASSA and furthermore LET’S ALL LISTEN TO WHAT STASSA JUST SAID

Their crime is existing here, not existing where they originally came from.

I think a little context would be really helpful for some to understand your comment:

Katie LeDecky just set the world record in the women’s 400m freestyle at 3:56.46. She destroyed the competition, being a full 5 second faster than the next closest time. LeDecky is probably the most dominant female swimmer in history.

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However, we use some of those gifts of nature to come up with classes of competitors to make competitions more fair and interesting. For example, a woman who is 6'6" 200lbs would not be able to compete in the UFC because their highest weight class is 145lbs.

My ex husband used to do the same to me, he forced me to watch porn and do the same things we watched, sometimes he used to force me to have sex 5 or six times per day, I felt like a sex slave. If I was sick or sored I needed to apologize to him and compensate him the next day. And I never told this to anyone but I…

Whether porn is systematically destroying the moral fabric of America is a conversation for a different day . . .

Like any other addiction, pornography use can make an already sick person worse. I doubt if you’re healthy that moderate use of porn will change much about you.

France banned all religious headgear (hijabs, Kufis, even yarmulkes so as not to single out Muslims) in public schools a while back. They’re pretty equal opportunity militant secularist over there.

I am way more interested to find out what happens to the nurses involved!

Sorry for the attitude! Anthropologie and its ilk makes me very mad, and probably pretty jealous of the people who can drop that kind of money without starving to death as a direct result. I am a lifelong thrifter and I feel you.

Sorry for the attitude! Anthropologie and its ilk makes me very mad, and probably pretty jealous of the people who…

Such a shame and so pathetic how everyone in the US is implying that Katinka is doping just because she could swim so much better than the American favorite. And when Katie Ledecky shows exactly the same performance, it is a miracle and everyone’s like, “F*ck, yeah, Murrrrica”...

Thanks. I live in Munich actually.

Why bother? American cheese has no distinctive flavor and a gummy texture, unlike real cheese. The only useful attributes of it are that it melts evenly and has long shelf-life (that should tell you something right there). Eat good cheese or go cheese-less.

Good point. Harry Potter is a special case because (1) it’s Harry Potter and (2) the last book was long enough to be at least two books. (Most YA novels have editors, so they aren’t allowed to get that long.)

Your body is clearly just protecting you.

I’m black and I certainly would. Churning out kids like the Alien Queen is not admirable.

I doubt many people are concerned—but I’m sure everyone has an opinion. And frankly, posting an article on any given subject and including after it a ‘comments’ section is essentially an invitation to comment, opine, and discuss.

I dunno, I’m pretty sure the perpetually pregnant, trailer park white trash yokel is a definite trope in our society. To the extent they took that photograph of her in her home, I would wager her family is no better off than middle class. I certainly hope—in the passing and disaffected way one wishes complete…

Yeah, I have to kind of agree here. If you’re going to work magic into US history, you can either ignore the lore of Native Americans, which is dismissive, or incorporate it, and get attacked for appropriation.

It was going to be a no-win situation anyways with the native Americans and magical America. Don’t bring them up, and you’re erasing them. Draw upon native traditions, and you’re appropriating them. Make some shit up entirely, and you’re caricaturing them.