Yeah...my reaction wasn't so much "gross joke" as "yuppppp."

Well, yes. But pro-lifers generally only focus on that and not what happens when the baby is born. And, before they are born, all their nutrition etc has to come through another person's body.

I mean, if a woman who has been raped CHOOSES to go forward with the pregnancy, yes, of course, the child is still a person and as much a person as anyone else and can grow up to bring their mom/other family a lot of joy. But I am guessing that was not the context of his comment.

Mail just keeps shutting down when I click the email link, so I'ma try here: I currently have one lobe piercing in each ear. I really want to get some additional, but subtle, ear piercings. I wear a lot of dangle earrings, so my question is, does wearing studs next to dangle earrings look weird? Are there any ground…

Or since the 1880s, when the NIH was funded?

Yeah. I am definitely fiscally liberal, but I can have good, intelligent conversations with that sort of republican.

Well shit, NASA and the NIH must be illegal!!

And SLAVERY isn't a false equivalence?

No, but affirmative action is an attempt to right some of the wrongs imposed by slavery and Jim Crow. If all things were equal, affirmative action would be unnecessary, and thus unfair. But all things are not equal.

She's pretty pissed when people suggest that to her.

Yes because those are the same. But, even slavery is over and Jim Crow is ostensibly over, black people are still at a major disadvantage in our country. Having one black president hasn't magically changed that. History matters.

Presidents nominate justices, and the senate approves them, so it's actually not one person making the decision. Journalists also dig up TONS of shit on nominees, and public opinion responses to that often influence what happens.

And, to be fair, men dying earlier.

Yep.

There don't need to be 9 women on the supreme court for the nearly-two centuries there were only men on the court, but if over time, the most qualified nominees tend to keep being women and the court, for a decade or so is all female, it would be pretty hypocritical to get THAT upset, given the court's history.…

And omg, like, a court of all women might be biased, you know? and like, think that women should have agency over their own bodies and stuff. That would be a DISASTER for men because...because...reasons!!!

Ah. I also did that. I wanted to be a mother and a father, according to my brothers.

Thank you for answering!

Question: Given the physiological and chromosomal differences, does either "phenotypic sex" or "chromosomal sex" make more sense than phrases like "born a [insert incorrect gender here]"?

A cafe I went to in Columbus Ohio had two single-stall bathrooms (so gender demarcations didn't matter anyway), but they put the one changing table in the men's room (with the obvious understanding women may need to use it too). I enjoyed it.