What about languages where that doesn't work? You are being extremely insensitive of other cultures and Latin based languages. Do you not support multiculturalism?

Yup. And it's not that they're "wrongfully narrow," it's that they're totally unnecessary most of the time, and can contribute to an attitude that gender is soooo fundamentally important that we can't even refer to people without identifying their gender, which is Bad.

On a somewhat higher level: there are a bunch of basic chemical processes that cells have to do to Get Stuff Done. (Example: "oxidative phosphorylation": think of it as a fire, since it's combining oxygen with fuel and yielding stuff we want as a by-product.) We do it, and even little bitty cells like bacteria do…

Yes, it functions essentially the same between people :3

Mitochondrial DNA is still distinct - there are 37 genes there, and there are still different "lineages." It's what people are referring to when they talk about Mitochondrial Eve. I believe right now there are something like 12 different haplogroups that are recognized, with a bunch of mutation groups within that -…

Mitochondria are like the alternator in your car.

Children born of this process will not be mutants, no mutation has occurred. They will simply be children that (barring spectacular bad luck) do not have a mitochondrial disorder, and if girls will not live in fear of passing one on to their children.

It should be noted that mitochondria have their own DNA* totally separate from your 46XX or 46XY chromosomal genome, so this really has nothing to do with "classic" genetics in terms of heritable traits we think of when it comes to dystopian movies like Gattaca. So what they're actually trying to accomplish is pretty…

I could kind of get Effy/Cook as some kind of self-destructive thing on both of their parts. She liked him because he was as fucked up as she wanted to be, and he liked her because he knew on some level that she was going to treat him like shit and eventually crush him. But the Freddy thing really came out of nowhere…

Am I the only female who doesn't find Channing Tatum attractive? I get that he has a nice body, but he just seems so plain and boring to me.

Not only did they ruin her awesome gender-queerness, but they also turned her into the nastiest, most selfish person in all of Skins history. I ended up HATING Frankie.

The Effie/Cook/Freddy love triangle was the WORST. All of a sudden, both these guys "loved" her, but they never showed us why/how that happened. It seemed to out of the blue. Freddy was a dope and Cook was a violent douche, so I had no idea what she saw in either of them. Oh man. And the journal where Freddie wrote I…

I may have already gone to ye olde interwebs to get it... But thank you! And verily it was goode.

Well it seems that the plastic industry is milking this study for all it's worth. If only it were more cultured to realize that the plight of the planet is whey more important.

Why a spoon, cousin? Why not an axe?

Oh, definitely. If it had always just been A Thing that sometimes these people sing, the scene wouldn't have hit as hard as it did. But the way it starts up with Sid on the bus ...

hahaha I love that show! It reminds me of high school but with better clothes (fucking 90s grunge bullshit).

The other great British teen series that should be mentioned is The Inbetweeners, as the Grauniad put it "The Inbetweeners' portrayal of dull suburbia is closer to the drab teen years most of us spent, rather than the decadent time we wished we spent [ala Skins]."

Series 5 was a nice change of pace: lighter. But then got heavy in series 6.

Not only did I watch it, but I watched it with my then teen-aged daughter AND we talked about it. For us, it was a natural progression from when we religiously watched Gilmore Girls every Tuesday night. It was like, our thing, y'know? And we unanimously agree that Seasons 1 and 2 were the best. She was in college…