But also "some guy is really into my girlfriend" probably sucks a bajillion times more when you can't say "I know, she's completely wonderful. That's why we're engaged!" I know how much being able to talk openly about my relationship means to me, and I honestly can't imagine how horrible it must be to have to hide…
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That is a great observation. The myth that English sentences should not end with preposition originates in Latin grammar, where so called "stranded prepositions" are not acceptable. The word preposition is borrowed from Latin (pre - position, because the Latin preposition must immediately preempt the prepositional…
"I'm so sorry facts offend you"? What is with the passive aggression?
Thanks for the help, I appreciate it!
I was made to feel that way when reporting the crime could possibly have made one iota of difference. What I do or do not feel now doesn't enter into the equation. Had it not been for the fact that victims are greeted with a disbelief, followed by a huge list of transgression to "take responsibility" for, I could have…
You're right. Thanks for the heads-up! I'm new to the gender discussion. Until recently, I was only gender-aware to the extent that I was anti-binary for ideological reasons, so I'm still prone to rookie mistakes! :-/
But going to concerts is plenty high-risk. It's a huge room with loud music full of people, most of whom are either drunk or high (or both).
Conchita Wurst is the drag queen stage persona of Tom Neuwirth who identifies as a (gay) man. In the interview I heard he says he is a boy at home and in another he emphasizes that he is a drag queen, not a transgender woman. Conchita goes by she, but is a persona and Tom goes by he.
First of all, that has literally nothing to do with what I said.
It's also easy to not go to concerts... Why shouldn't we also tell women to stop doing that? For their own safety, I mean... The chance of getting raped will be much smaller.
And Rogen's comments were pathetic. He seems like he is just bitter that he got out-famed by a kid. I don't care for Bieber, but, sorry Rogen, he is more famous than you. Get over it.
I can't speak for anyone else, but when I was 17 I went to a concert. While another band was warming up, I went out for a cigarette and a friend of a friend offered to accompany me. It was snowing. He raped me, I pulled up my pants (army pants, some things you don't forget) went back in, saw the concert, went home,…
I think the problem with that logic is that there is literally always something the victim could have done to not get raped. Example: I wasn't drunk when I was raped, but I was at a concert. If I hadn't gone to that concert, I wouldn't have been raped (that night). We can't know which night is the night we get raped,…
I'm guessing it has to do with the genocide of Armenians; although it doesn't make her "colored" in the technical sense, it does make her a descendant of a persecuted ethnic group. (I say descendant of a persecuted group because I don't get the sense that Armenians are currently a persecuted group in the US, although…
Actually, etymologically speaking, both nanny and nurse are gendered. "Nurse" is derived from the French "nourrice" which is from the Latin "nutricia". Both words mean wet-nurse and are thus gendered. "Nanny" is presumed to originate from the names "Anne" or "Agnes" or maybe even from "nana", which some take to be a…
My mom used to say "Never do anything that you wouldn't want on the front page of tomorrow's paper." It's pretty effective as far as terror-inducing scenarios go.
Because of my love of Edwardian fashion and Jane Austen, I'm going to be That Person and mention that Jane Austen was early 19th century. Sorry, I do hate being That Person, I just geek out over that period :-P
Yup, and as a person who will not leave the house without my hair in some form of braid, I feel I must add that the Elsa braid is a (really bad copy of a) French braid, whereas the Rapunzel braid is just a regular old braid.
Haha, "high-stakes lego"... I love that!