I am in complete agreement with this. You probably also know that this idea makes too much sense to be adopted by a society that seemingly produces such sick people on a regular basis. Paranoia is part of our everyday fuel at this point, and to suggest it should not be is practically anti-capitalist.

As a raincoaster, I have to agree about that umbrella crap. I also blame the influx of people not from the northwest. Growing up, I didn't know anyone who used umbrellas, we wore layers and raincoats for nearly three seasons. Because umbrellas make sense to carry for sudden down pours, but not for months on end of…

It is not a black market thing. It is hard and expensive to find a doctor who performs the procedure. Enter wavy gravy NDs in Portland, who've figured out they can pay some crunchy folks in Portland without any diseases for their feces, and they can offer the service for less money to those with chronic bowel…

There are NDs in Portland who offer their services for the procedure, at a much lower cost than most of the other places around the country. The weird part is *who* they get their poo from. They actually pay various healthy individuals who eat a strict diet for their feces. So yes, there are people in Portland trading…

Oh man, I thought Jezebel was finally doing a piece on the fecal transplant market in Portland. Yes, it is a real thing.

I wouldn't say bitch, but your statement sounds a bit centric to your station in life. Although it maybe harder than ever to do so, one can choose a blue collar career at age 18, and have a marriage, a house, and kid by 23. I've seen it done. Also, by your definition, the entirety of those in the military are not good…

That is terrible, you have my condolences.

And a hearty double fuck you to anaphylaxis. Having a knife held to your throat is less scary than anaphylaxis. At least it is in the realm of the possible to speak and reason with the person holding a knife, anaphylacttic shock on the other hand has no feelings.

Well, whaddya gonna do? People who think that their world views are in competition with the others are not going to see eye to eye. I have my own internal conflict over this, on the one hand, I have tremendous respect for any given individual's experience with religion and what that means to them, on the other hand,…

One of the reasons evo-psych is stupid is because it assumes that the model of human society is apparently the nuclear family from the 1950's. Prehistoric people lived in groups, and relied on one another. In short they more resembled tribal societies. Well, you might find it interesting that in these tribal societies…

Men do not lose social status, particularly in the eyes of other men, by cheating, women do in the eyes of both genders. Why would a high value, attractive woman, then, lower her status by cheating? It is women of low status that stand to lose the least by cheating.

Actually, I was thinking about egalitarianism in much broader sense, more towards our bent towards specialization, power aggregates, and the like. It is a feminist site though, and people use that particular lens through which they try to interpret the minds of others. That is a weakness in any ideology. Even though…

I was a little disappointed to read this thread and find out the "3" in his name was not a reference to the fact that Rousseau had such a spanking fetish that he would literally drop his pants and run ass first at women in hopes of getting it slapped. True story, and not completely unlike what this guy seems to be…

We are in the same lame game, now with new improved rules. Value added to be sure. It is not that I'm down on men standing up to misogyny, but really, I don't see us becoming a more egalitarian society and world, if anything, we are less so. I'd love to be wrong about this, so go ahead make me feel better and prove me…

How's that polarization going in your country? Because it is crazy here in the states. Toys, clothes, food, basically anything that can paid for has some kind gendered marketing for it. I always pictured your mostly sensible country as the kind of place cars are not sold as penis enhancements and vacuums are not sold…

Projecting our modern social mores onto the past is problematic, and I get why someone might be peevish about it.

That is such a relaxed attitude, I like it. You didn't do anything wrong, but Christianity is supposed to be about faith, which is why it is a religion. That said, Catholic schools in the US(and probably Canada) sure have gotten mild. Elderly people and those who grew up in poor countries have Catholic education…

It the classic conversion line, first you get someone to feel like crap about themselves, and then you offer them Jesus. It's like "Here, I made you a special drink out of vinegar, it's healthy for you, people like you should have vinegar in your stomachs, it's natural!" then they're all "You feel like puking now?…

Well, he went crazier than a shithouse rat on those money changers in the temple, and he cursed a fig tree. Those are the only examples of really dickish Jesus I can think of at the moment. I'm not religious, but the money changers in the temple thing I totally understand. That fig thing, though it has been explained…

+1 You made me laugh. Thanks.