Where do you get this fascinating information from?

What you're saying isn't really possible, though. Otherwise all the pages of all the news publications would be filled with stories of missing children and nothing else. The fact is, there isn't an infinite amount of news coverage to go around. When this kind of priority is given to one story, it takes away from…

I'm as anti-Barbie as the next raging feminazi, but I can't get on board with this.

Oh, I know. Believe me, I know. That was just me trying to be diplomatic. Because if I said what men's rights advocates actually believe, like you just did, people who don't already dislike them would think I'm a liar, or just quoting the crazies as a straw man. Although I guess I'd only have to tell them to browse a…

Women are more likely to receive alimony and child custody because they are generally the primary carers. If you're the one who is taking care of the kids the most before the marriage ends (which the mother usually is), then it makes perfect sense that you're the one who takes care of them primarily post-divorce.…

That's totally fair enough, and I like the way you explain it. Re-reading the comment you were originally replying to, I would have been offended too.

Yes! I get those a lot too, and I hate the assumptions that come with them. All I can say is thank goodness for my nice regular doctor who just gave me a whole stack of antibiotic repeat scripts and told me to treat myself when I feel one coming on. Best thing ever.

Yeah, this was definitely getting ridiculous! Look, you really are welcome to hate your husband being called your partner as much as you want, I respect that. I think sometimes I just get absorbed in an argument, and enjoy the challenge of it, you know? I still haven't got the hang of when to say "lets agree to…

Generally, my issue has been with your logic. Your feelings are your business, and I don't take any issue with those. The only thing I can see that I've written that I could see being interpreted as disrespect for your feelings is my claiming that you're being unreasonable. What I was referring to specifically was…

Partner includes spouse. So all of what you're saying about people "assuming you're unmarried" is just false. They aren't making any assumptions, except, I suppose, that you have a partner at all.

Except that you're the one with the privilege, since you're the one in the heterosexual relationship. I can see how it would get on your nerves, but unless the person using the word is aware that you're married to a man, I think you're being unreasonable.

But college IS about improving your job options/lifestyle. I would guess that the majority of people can't afford to take several years of their life just to learn and enjoy learning without there being other significant benefits. While it's sad that some people don't get much enjoyment out of the learning process,…

I hope your sister enjoys her 'generic' diploma, and that the extra years she took to figure out what she wants out of her life rewards her in the end.

I don't like that a word for women's vaginas is thought of as the worst, most nasty word imaginable. Therefore, whenever I use the word 'cunt,' I think of it as a feminist act, since the only way to take away a word's power is to use it relentlessly.

I agree that we need a gender neutral pronoun for referring to a person of unspecified gender, but I don't think it would help things here. Using a gender neutral pronoun for a trans person would surely be almost as offensive as using "it".

MDMA can have effects on memory, but the way your friend phrased it is kind of hilariously misguided. It sounds like the kind of thing you would hear in some ecstasy version of Reefer Madness.

Your clitoris has a theme song? Mine is jealous.

Ladies, I think we all know what to do. Everyone wear a strapless bra today, to show some *support* for Wanda! Email your grandmas!

That's what I called myself for years! But the thing about atheism is that it isn't saying that god is provably non-existent. It's just saying that you don't believe that there is a god, that you consider it unlikely. I think that's a fair statement, and it's one I agree with.

I've talked to quite a few people who think that. I'm not American, though, I'm Australian. I think it's a little less religious than the US, so I guess it might be a bit different? I guess because it's a secular country, they feel as though their views aren't adequately represented or respected. It's not often that…