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Well, since you asked, I will tell you the reasons why I am interested in where people are from. I am from New York and I am in my 40s. I was raised in a time and place where different ethnicities were celebrated with parades, street fairs, classroom parties — it was not considered offensive, when and where I was

I mentor high school kids and the majority of the kids in the program are Mexican American. As a black person, I understand that a lot of POC come in more than one color since I have cousins with 2 black parents who are very light, or have red hair or blond hair or green eyes, etc.

I work with people from all over the country/world so I think it's customary to ask/easy small talk. Oh, you're from chicago? I went to this great restaurant there...

Thanks to my particular Texas town, I grew up being "not white enough" AND "not Mexican enough". Lots of people calling me a "mutt", most of them meaning it to be offensive. Super fun stuff.

Good for you. I have been lucky to have two separate brides give me freedom of dress selection and I love them for it. This might be more of a Southern thing? I have had to talk lovely, smart, friends of mine down from the brink because they were concerned that their wedding colors weren't appropriate for a fall

One of my favorite Asimov stories is in "I, Robot" when the robot decides that it's found God and that the humans are pitiful inferior beings. That'll be funny when that happens.

The development of AI and robotics bring up seriously interesting questions about what "human" means. Is an android that is ostensibly sentient to be afforded the same rights as a person? What if they're programmed to behave that way, but aren't actually "sentient."

Well I am deeply hurt that you would reject me in such a public, humiliating way.

I was gonna dismiss your comment, but instead I'm gonna assume you just have a good-faith misconception of what the term "neurotypical" means.

Make sure you get a good psychiatrist! School is actually a great place to find support for AD/HD and other disabilities or disorders. Well, school should be. Universities tend to be fantastic; trade schools rarely have the facilities for it.

So magnified, sharp, distinct, crisp and so keen were her feelings that her inner, outer, middle, sideways and peripheral nerves could even feel the bumps, the ridges, the pimples, the enormous genital warts, leftover dried sponge, and the few stray hairs along the shaft of his male rod, masculine pole, stick of

Oh, it's already happened:

"...the bumps, the ridges, the pimples, the few stray hairs along the shaft of his male rod."

You do realize psychology is a very broad field that encompasses a variety of fields like cognition, behavioral neuroscience, clinical psychology, social psychology, and so on, right? Saying she's less of a scientist and more of a psychologist undermines the field as a whole and just makes you look like an idiot who

Well, then you probably don't have sexist guy friends, so congratulations. But "needy," along with "crazy," "hormonal," "bitch," and so on, are definitely words that have a clear history of being used to silence women who dare to have some modicum of assertiveness.

Maybe you're lucky enough to have avoided encountering this, but "needy" is something that's deeply gendered, and you're not addressing that part. It's related to the "women talk soooo much" idea. Labeling women as "needy" or overly talkative isn't about women needing too much or talking too much—it's about women

I can't top it, but I can match it (from an X-Files fanfiction story at some point in the 90s, describing a kiss):

This sort of dreck kills all of us dead, as dreck does.