Yes, and in the same way, the imperial japanese flag is considered offensive in several Asian countries and a symbol of those atrocities, but I have seen it used lots of times in the West just as decoration.

There was a time in Spain when teachers would use corporal punishment against students who used one of the minority languages in the country. Congratulations to that woman in using the same teaching technics that a fascist and murderous dictator would consider appropriate (just in case: sarcasm)

Fun (not really) fact:

This link

Just curious, in what country do you live? It’s not difficult to find songs with that word in Spanish. I don’t think that it’s a obscure word in Spanish, although I don’t know if there is different usages and connotation depending of the country.

Everybody knows that traditional feminine hobbys and occupations are simply boring. That would be like trying to do an interesting story about...I don’t know...a cook or something.

Look, let’s forget about political correct nonsense and let’s be realistic her. Women can’t be warriors, magic is a thing for men and there was no women rulers or in any position of authority in Medieval times. What do you want, a film about embroidering?

Then, unless the reality show or the sex tape reached Pakistan , the “hailed as Pakistan’s Kim Kardashian” seems more an invention of the US Press than something that people of her country said. I can be mistaken, of course, but the formulation of that sentence made me think that it was a comparation done in Pakistan…

Do they even know who Kim Kardashian is in Pakistan? I mean, I’m from Spain I didn’t know about her until I started to read Gawker (and I’m still not sure why is she famous.)

Some people see it as something that could bring awareness about their cultures, and would be glad if players use the opportunity to learn more about the real culture:

I have some experience with game masters introducing rape plots because of realism. At least, that was his excuse. My impresion was that he and the other player wanted the other women player and me to play a rape scene for their own amusement. Let’s say that his descriptions of the scene were a bit too sexy for a…

I have seen people use the “x” and the “@” instead of the “o” in the written language, but in oral language, the only form that I’ve heard are “feminine and masculine”. Like “niñas y niños”. Personally, I prefer using the masculine as generic (even if, yes, is not perfect). Is it a common option in the US to use…

But, in Spanish, masculine plural is the generic form when you are talking about a group with members of unespecified or mixed gender. In that context, “masculine” plural is not really “masculine”, but unmarked. The Real Academia Española and the Diccionario Panhispánico de Dudas both say so

I think that it’s not a case of people being in the closet, but people labeled as straight or gay according to their current partner (or seen as just wanting to stand out), even if they are openly bisexual : Angelina Jolie, Megan Fox, Kristen Stewart, Miley Cirus... have said that they are bisexuals, but their words…

I’ve said this in another comment, but some journalists have used the fact that she is bisexual to excuse Depps

Some of the comments about the bisexuality of Heard in the press have been absolutely disgusting. Maybe I’m too optimistic, but I was not expecting that kind of treatment of bisexuals by the press in 2016.

Real story, in an internet debate about rape and consent, somebody (a woman) tried to argue to me that most rape accusations were false because real victims are too ashamed to go to the police.

She in not in Heartlight, but that doesn’t mean that she is not being mistreated by her parents now, or that they can’t send her to other center to “cure” her. She is still not 18 and her parents still have custody.

I’m not sure. I have read about basque as a pre-indo-European language before but I don’t know which are the other pre-indo-European languages in Europe. The wikipedia page about basque says “one of the few” but the wikipedia page about Pre-Indoeruropean only identifies basque in Europe. But the page about Paleo-Europe…

Her father is basque, and basque language is one the few pre-Indo-European languages in Europe, so the surnames from that region are quite characteristic.