Yes, but identifying someone as a dummy just makes the conversation adversarial. I’d rather everyone be able to acknowledge there may be value in the perspective of the “other”, that it is too limiting to just stay with what is familiar. That particular friend is probably more concerned with feeling displaced - the…

Right. FGM prevalence among native western populations is identical to that among northern African immigrants. Got it.

Ah, the logic of trying to make everyone equal by constantly pointing out how different[ly] we are TREATED BY SOCIETY.

Well, come on, discriminating based on culture is valid. Watch “the dancing boys of afghanistan” before you disagree. Cultural relativism sucks worse than anything.

Sure you can criticize whoever you want, but you have to realize that almost everyone on this planet is racist to an extent, study after study has shown that people have subconscious biases against people who are not like them.

Or, hell, a place like Japan where a person of Korean descent can be seen as being not truly Japanese generations after their family immigrated. Or go to African countries where tribal differences are seen as enough to discriminate.

Because it’s military prison, plain and simple. I guess asshole should have thought about how his life would be affected before breaking the law and betraying the trust s/he swore to uphold.

I’m not a dolphin, you’re not a koala, and Manning isn’t a female. He was born with a penis and Y chromosome, and has a completely different physical makeup than a woman would. Being an actual woman comes with so many burdens, it continually amazes me how many women are so tolerant of dudes just deciding they want to…

Who cares, don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time. There are more constructive ways to expose your country’s misdeeds that don’t involve going to jail. He’s not a martyr being persecuted, just an idiot. Every segment of the population has dumbasses sprinkled around their ranks, the transgender community which I…

A million plus Americans in prison and Gawker media obsesses over this one traitor who we KNOW is guilty?

WHY? Why do they care how long her hair is? Unless the objective is to humiliate her

Maybe I’m a terrible person, but I just can’t muster a lot of sympathy for Manning.

So has the military ever explained why they have different hair length standards for men and women in the first place?

This does make me question as to why there are different grooming standards more male and female inmates. What’s the actual purpose of these grooming standards?

Here’s what I never understood about our laws against prostitution. If I offer a woman money to have sex, I can get arrested. However, if I offer a woman money for sex and tell her I’m going to film it in order to make a movie (she signs a contract that a lawyer has set up, etc) the transaction becomes perfectly…

Stop being so emotional fortheloveofbeets. Just like a woman!

Civilized or emotionally fragile? Cuz it seems like you are on the cusp of a nervous breakdown because of a stupid comment

Oh please, stop crying. Guys get insulted here because of their appearance all the time. Why don’t you have a problem with that?

Are you seriously telling somebody to not be an asshole on Gawker?

I guess I should have foreseen that their other attributes were more of a base requirement and the face could be literally painted on. This doesn’t make me an asshole.