Well, it's basically sexual objectification. From Wiki: "Sexual objectification refers to the practice of regarding or treating another person merely as an instrument (object) towards one's sexual pleasure, and a sex object is a person who is regarded simply as an object of sexual gratification. Objectification more…

And christ dude, get over it. The citizens of California elected their state and local governments, and those representatives chose to take those actions. If you don't like it, move there and vote.

No you simpleton, I compared efforts to reduce overall carbon emissions to landing on the moon or curing polio.

Ugh, I hate it when people push technological boundaries! Why the fuck did we waste so much money going to the moon or curing polio?

"Considering there are fewer woman than men working in the industry there's bound to be cases of sexism against woman..."

Well, when we have an article about nursing I'm sure your story will be quite fascinating.

But that's a problem too.

You must be one of those folks who think it's ok to proposition women standing alone in an elevator then.

Don't blame me, blame the assholes that treat fat people like shit.

That, and the fact that engine designs are locked until 2014.

Infiniti isn't even going to get to badge the Renault engines as Infinitis next year.

You're allowed to do whatever the fuck you want. It's just when you decide to continue doing something that others have told you is harmful, you should fucking stop.

The folks who think it's totally ok to patronize overweight folks at the gym because "they don't mean any harm" are just like the same assholes who have no problem cornering a woman in an elevator and propositioning her while ignoring the risk they are putting her in.

"I've never been fat"

I really fucking hate this ON BOTH SIDES bullshit. The truth is not "somewhere in the middle", and I hate that you're too milquetoast to admit that.

In regards to your last paragraph, the New York Times covered that a few years back. Damn if I can't find it, but it was one of those, "why are all the men playing video games and not getting married and having tons of kids" editorial pieces.

Argument by dictionary makes you look dumb. "Poison" implies "no medical use", and cell death is quite useful when the cells you're focusing on are cancerous.

You know, this wouldn't even be a question if MJ weren't schedule 1. Then we could actually know the proper dosage for a kid and have better treatments.

Yeah, I love it when people label perfectly good chemo as "poisons".