Man, we seriously need better bio teachers.

If Nobel nominees are kept secret for 100 years, why are there fifty articles about Snowden being nominated for the peace prize in 2014? That's not a very well-kept secret.

It doesn't matter whether the men knew that the women were being kept against their will. If a group of people were kept against their will in a sweatshop, forced to sew clothes, and weren't paid for their labor, we would call them slaves not seamstresses. Even if the people who bought the clothes they produced were…

I was thinking that, too. And the line about them "never receiving compensation" creeps me out. They weren't prostitutes, they were sex slaves and there isn't such a thing as compensation for rape!

Oh, I'd like to point out that I distinguish between yelling a lá "GET OFF THE STREET" (panicky, someone is about to get hurt yelling) and the kind of yelling that involves name-calling and shaming a child. Yelling to prevent a situation is a reflex in a dangerous situation, but yelling to teach a lesson is not.

I think both yelling and spanking are mostly done out of a sense of powerlessness. I don't believe parents would spank or yell at their child if they could come up with another strategy that worked, but I also don't think that excuses the behavior. Spanking and yelling don't teach social behavior, they aren't…

It doesn't have to be either or; a person can choose to neither hit nor yell at their child. That, at least, is my plan. There is no doubt that yelling at and shaming one's child can leave lasting scars just as well as hitting can.

I disagree, I think the media and celebrity creates the understanding of what is beautiful. Skinny wasn't beautiful before Twiggy, by today's standard, Marylin Monroe was chubby, Betty Paige had saggy breasts, and the shoulder padded look of the 80's was hideous. And don't even get me started on the bleached, bug-eyed…

The thing is, they don't garner a positive response. They are effective, but they work by giving women inferiority complexes, thus "encouraging" us to solve problems that they themselves created by spending money on sweat-shop produced, animal-tested, commercialised garbage. That isn't positive.

I see it more as picturing Disney characters as Game of Thrones women, than GoT women as Disney princesses (if that makes sense). But that way it is Disney characters becoming three-dimensional, not GoT becoming sparkly and "pretty".

They probably haven't reported the number of times they have been harrassed, just whether they have been harrassed during the year. (Just a guess.)

Honestly, knowing how my boyfriend gets about GoT, I would feel really betrayed...
Just kidding (sort of, but not really)

I find a lot of bilboards offensive tbh. I live in Copenhagen, Denmark where we recently had bilboards everywhere advertising a private hospital that offered breast implants. On my way to uni, I would walk past three sets of bare breasts advertising these implants. They were on the sides of buses and on the walls of…

I personally think there is a big difference between a woman dressing provocatively and a man wearing an almost naked woman as an ornament. The shirt is a pretty text-book example of objectification of women.

I'm thinking like Hugh Grant, but minus the sex workers.

"There's a guy in the woods who has raped x number of women, so be cautious and report suspicious behavior" tells women to be wary of one specific person in a specific area until the danger has passed. It also allows the predator to be caught. "There are rapists at parties so don't drink" doesn't offer any predator…

Brutal means "savage, animalistic, base, harsh, cruel" not violent. Not all rape is violent, but rape is a cruel, harsh, animalistic and base transgression against the victim's bodily autonomy, even when it isn't "violent".

That sounds absolutely horrifying. I'm so sorry that happened to you!

You misunderstood child's post. Child wasn't saying that gay people can just get civil married and have all the rights. They can't. That would entail marriage equality, which the US doesn't have. Christians don't have dibs on marriage; it is a legal ceremony that predates Christianity. Gay people aren't asking to be…

I would have liked to see it, too. I didn't hear about it til it was over, though.