Fascinating! I look forward to reading more about them. Thank you!

I like you! And I agree with everything you've said. It is the structure that's the issue, isn't it? I mean, when was the last time you heard about that great big Quaker scandal?

Ach, but that's not what we're really talking about here, is it? It was if a community run by religion is inherently harmful to women, no? Certainly individual churches and non-profits do good work and help women. However, once a church is in charge I believe that things go very badly for women, certainly in all…

That looks like a secular empire, not a theocracy though. Am I missing something?

I'm trying to come up with a situation in which a theocracy has ever been good for women. I agree that secular institutions can be quite bad for women, but I also cannot think of a situation in which religion holds dominion where women were not objectively worse off than their secular neighbors. Do you know of one?…

How many people knew those were See's Candies as soon as you saw the picture? Ah ... the bliss of the Cafe Au Lait truffle .... mmmmmmm.

And that is why I swallow. I didn't really know what I'd do when my first boyfriend came while I was going down, but once my mouth was full of it I wanted it out of my mouth as quickly as possible. Swallowing was the most efficient. It wasn't until much later that I learned there was a "thing" about spit/swallow.

Heh. My husband thought a picture of my mom snuggling with my bio-dad was me and an ex-boyfriend. Awkwaaaard!

My step-dad raised me from 4 on, so he's totally my real father. But he was (passed away last year) 5'4" and slender and I'm 5'9" with lots o' junk in da trunk, so it was always hilarious to watch people try and figure out our relationship. He was my pocket-sized dad!

Ach, I see ... well, we are at an impasse as I have a rather firm rule to never argue with an idiot as those watching won't be able to tell the difference.

I see what you're saying. And gender is a really big deal in our society, it's something we're really grappling with. We've come to a point in the path towards gender equality where we're seeing quite clearly how the way we handled gender in our society hurts men, too, so it's really great to get to talk about this…

I would be happy to engage in a conversation with you, but I find your tone and dismissive attitude towards my point of view (and others you disagree with) to be really unpleasant. Talking about ideas doesn't need to be so ugly and is often why folks don't get anywhere. If you would care to rephrase your thinking in a…

It is to our identity, but I think a great deal of that has to do with social conditioning. I suspect that if society didn't care one whit if a person born male, identifying female and expressed as such, many trans individuals wouldn't move towards surgery (I recognize that I have no way of knowing this and it is only…

I understand what you're saying, and it's one of the more reasonable summations I've read. However, I think that you've also done a great job of outlining why so many fans (female fans in particular) find it awfully hard to swallow that having the Doctor be played by a woman is such a big deal.

MRA Brogamers vs Everyone Else.

You're right of course and I know I won't be purchasing a ticket for the movie itself. I'll either buy a ticket to something else and go see it or just wait until I can stream it. What I'm torn about, fundamentally, is if I can even still enjoy this story or the book from which it comes. He's become such a horrible…

I like the twist of it being in Card's name ...

She was absolutely more powerful than Harry. Just about every single thing they did was because of her brains and fantastic spell-work. In every book she was the one who came up with the plan and solved the mystery (or was about to as in the case of Chamber of Secrets).

That makes sense. I was thinking of buying a ticket to another movie and going to see it. I'll donate as well. Thanks for the suggestion!

I am so torn about this.