People do, though. Here in Osaka I see the occasional Suburban or old Cadillac or muscle car that literally can't even clear the corners of some of the narrower streets or fit in some parking lots. The money people will piss away on a car that can pretty much only function as recreation...! Not judging, though.…

This is a cool story. But this part reminds me of something I've been thinking about lately:

i.word.com is Merriam Webster's mobile site, so uh... You know, the source for American Standard? Keep the cuntiness coming though I guess.

Hahahaha, this is literally the same problem as in your previous post. You can't just arbitrarily decide for other people which sense of a word with multiple senses they're using based on which one is most convenient to you saying what you want to say in response. Let me help you. See senses 2 & 3:

Enjoy a life of never owning your own behavior, I guess. And yes, this is me judging.

I don't know about MRA's, but I think this reality is talked about fairly regularly in traditionally "male" contexts, like among the dudes who all go out drinking together in my workplace or male-targetted standup comedy. Just off the top of my head:

I want to believe too, but I'm not sure I'd get too excited about this yet. They have always loved reusing names throughout the series.

Then why the fuck did you argue to me that you weren't being judgmental? Let me restate:

That's cool. And I don't mean to, like, "nail you," in that aggressive sense. Will still be reading and commenting in the future. Hopefully we're cool. And sorry, this would have been a better discussion on one of your Japan pieces, not under Harry Potter.

Why are the only options celebration and excoriation? Where do you see me saying I want her to be excoriated for anything?

Ugh, literally everything on the Internet has to be a conspiracy theory.

Let's take the situation you alluded to and BabyGotFront actually explicitly drew: the person who asks me, most likely in a social situation, where I am "from." When I am visiting countries from Japan, I say I am from Japan. To me, that is just reality. I live in Japan. I work in Japan. My life is in Japan. I am…

Dude, I'm not saying it has to be in the book, or that Rowling has shirked some innate duty to be ultra inclusive in her writing. I've said elsewhere in the thread that I think the books are huge successes at being exactly what they try to be, and that I have no actual beef with her leaving out what she left out. This…

Unfortunately, we live in a very sex-negative culture where sex is supposed to be incredibly unimportant… right up until it is. Culturally, when there's a mismatch of libidos in a relationship, we tend to side with the person with the lower sex drive - the one with the higher one is inconveniencing his or her partner…

This is a good point. It's entirely possible he's turning her off in other areas of the relationship by not seeing how they ultimately connect sex.

We had a huge fight one night where we sat in bed and after two years of trying to get her to talk to me she finally broke down and let me in, said she faked all the sex, said I was bad, and now I'm just afraid she's given up and that'll be the end of it.

We recently moved interstate to our own place with nobody else to bother us, and I've been hoping things might pick up a bit, but still nothing. I've asked her about things maybe getting a bit better for us, I tried to get things started the other night but she took the condom from my hand and threw it into the next…

Is this really a mystery to you? If you want to be judgmental and call them dumb for a mistake that you're far too put-together to ever make yourself, just do that.

That's all well and good, but is that specific motivation ever unambiguously stated or even strongly suggested by any language in the book?

It wasn't just undue import, it was a sloppy and dishonest manipulation of the language simply in the interest of shaming someone who made a harmless joke.