That would be true in a formal debate. But this is not a formal debate environment -- if it were, then there would also be judges that would award a victory to one side or the other, and those judges would be well-versed in the objective facts of whatever subject was being debated.

Yeah, that matches up with my experience as well. People who don’t know what they want to do end up wanting to be part of a system they already understand.

Both my father and my wife have told me that it really is something they teach you in basic training.

I’m with you 100%. The Blu-Ray player was what made the PS3 something I could convince my wife we needed. I could have done the same with the PS4 pro, but as it is now, it doesn’t actually fill a need.

One of the things about peeing in the shower is that they teach you to do that in the army. Because it helps prevent athlete’s foot.

They’ve been saying disabled, but this is the first time I’ve heard his disability soecified.

I think she was too far away for them to really hear her.

Don’t know if you’re serious, but this is absolutely true for me. I’m faceblind and unless I spend a lot of time with someone, I pretty much only recognize people by their hairstyles and voices.

So there’s this thing about how conversation works.

When lesbians are talking among ourselves, we will occasionally break our sexuality/gender role/gender presentation down into micro-categories. For instance, I’m a “short-nailed femme”.

Very true. But if they are a pedophile who has sex with children of the same gender, then they are both.

The PSTV has allayed any concerns I might have had about playing handheld games on my TV. Even PSP games don’t look half bad.

I realize that it was out of your timeframe, but no discussion of choking can be had without mentioning the Houston Oilers losing with a 32 point lead against the Buffalo Bills in the playoffs in 1993.

Back when my wife was drinking, she was playing Assassin’s Creed 2 (or possibly Brotherhood) during one of her drinking binges. She got so frustrated during one of the races that she got a hammer and destroyed our PS3. And all of our save games along with it.

Yeah, eastern Washington (and to a lesser extent the peninsula) are very conservative and have had the small white supremacy and secession movements for a while now. (I mean, we share a border with Idaho, what do you expect.)

Dear god, I just realized that once I hit my next birthday, I’ll be old enough to accidentally use non-PC language without causing offense.

I’m using the other definition of revolutionary. So why don’t I rephrase for clarity.

I’ve been keeping my fingers crossed all along that this is how it was going to end.

Agree completely — getting the right hormonal balance is vital to mental health. For most of the transfolk I have known, any underlying mental health issues they had were literally untreatable until they first got their hormones right.

Good luck with everything!