I always find those instances of 'reverse discrimination' very interesting - I understand where they come from and how they perhaps seemed like progress at the time, but I'm not so sure they should...
I think it's also true for men though. Admittedly my experience with this is very limited, but I do have one male friend who quit fashion-designing because he found the general assumption that 'if he...
Haha! Yeah. When I was teaching maths there were only 2 girls in my class (of over 20 people), I'm not exaggerating. Hopefully as discrimination diminishes, science will become a more attractive path...
Sadly, this is often the case. Women are chauvinistic too, it's not a 'male trait'. In fact, because women are (most often) socialised by/around other women, I'd argue the main chauvinistic presence...
I find your list very comprehensive! I'd just like to add they also have to face a lot of discrimination in certain areas, such as science, because there's still the generalised notion that 'women...
They're a small group within the 'radfem' community that didn't quite read the whole memo and are instead defending something else. They're not even that numerous, and it's not like I have any right...
Whenever I get dreams like that, they're nightmares. I usually don't try to go back to sleep after that happens; they seem so real that I wake up very agitated - besides I once went back to sleep and...
This: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTuTc_liKS4 And I think it's hysterical :
|I don't watch a lot of TV and I hadn't noticed that, but if that's the case, then I have to agree with you. It seems about as unequal a way to portray gender roles as 50s television. The idealist...
I've read a lot about 'aggressive feminism', and the more I read, the more convinced I become they're doing feminism a disservice, choosing to fight a situation of inequality by proposing a new...
That's all very well, but what happens when all the kids are gone? Does that continue? Are they able to reconnect with each other, once the distractions they were focusing on to avoid dealing with...
Human beings seem perfectly able to overcome a number of biological urges - by refusing to procreate, committing suicide, planning a genocide - so I'm not convinced these urges have any real...
A book on the free market, European law, and the institutions of the EU. It's actually a very interesting topic, but the book itself is written in a way I could never call enjoyable. The list of...
They were fun. So versatile! It was like suddenly having a million more options, unfortunately also a million more buttons on your skillbar :'D I then regretted how long it took me to convince myself...
You're right, I did not take the part about winking orgasms into account because I realised that was a joke - yes, I did read it, I even thought it was funny - but I don't know what that has to do...
I think it just goes with being open to new theories. One can't do that unless they leave room for doubt.
RCUAI. I've always looked forward to becoming a screenwriter microbiologist. I'll write the funniest bacteriocomedy, and once I've perfected the time-machine, probably The Last of Us...
This might come as a surprise to you, but I don't live inside your head, and you don't exactly have a voice over the internet so I can pick up on the tone. I'm sorry if my answer bothered you. At the...
I'm too eclectic to have a few favourites. Fallout (any, though especially New Vegas.) Half-Life Portal Baldur's Gate and similar games The 2013 Tomb Raider (I couldn't stand the previous...
Well. I guess so. Not always, though :| Sometimes I just think 'this person is flawed in ways that aren't worth my effort, next' after a year or two, or simply 'boring, next', and that's the last...
I used to do this when I was a child. Then I realised they can tell you're looking.
Oh, I am closer to static, actually - people fitting the dynamic description would probably drive me insane - I was just being nitpicky because that's what I do! :)
Technically, asexuals do not experience sexual attraction, but may experience 'romantic love'. I personally cannot offer any more insight into this, but I hope it answers your question. That wasn't...
It's not. Happy researching. Besides, your statement also seems to imply ethnic minorities are an impossibility so... please be careful where you say that?
This seems to apply only to romantic relationships and not any kind of relationship - friendships, family membership, etc. I'm not sure to what extent the individual is able to channel different...
My parents and my cat. I seriously think everyone else I could easily do without. I only become friends with people I think are replaceable. I become very paranoid if I think I'm being 'needy'. ...
I see no reason for them not to exist.
Check the time. Is it time for the postman to be here? If answer = yes: Answer door. Else: Check date. Am I expecting any visitors/construction workers/etc. today? If answer = yes: Answer door....
I see. I actually find those funny. Not the jokes per se, but rather... in a 'laughing at myself' kind of way, if that makes sense? Then again, I find most things in life hilarious. So maybe I'm just...
And then turned into a thread about a game from the 90s. I'm sorry :| I try to stay on topic, I'm just pants at it.
I can't wait! The enhanced edition also came out earlier this year, which was sweet, but well, in the end it was just an enhanced edition. I love D&D games, especially in the style of BG, I keep...
I honestly have no idea. I'm such a hoarder I tend to forget where things came from, or even why I wanted them. Perhaps Google can help? I find it easy to believe they mostly play RPGs. I've seen...
That's unfortunate. I thought you said you'd played WoW? I saw - well... heard, I guess - lots of girls in WoW. Not sure how friendly they were, but they existed. Seemed to have a preference for...
Are you serious. I've played that game so many times I'm not even going to bother with a question mark.
76458 Have you considered replaying - I'm going to assume you've played them once because I can't picture a childhood without these - Baldur's Gate and/or Monkey Island? Most likely to be played...
I'm glad this is a thing now, I can stop being unrelated elsewhere :) 1) I rarely seek out friendships, most often I wait for people to talk to me and then decide whether I want to give them a...
I'm not confident I'm an INTP. It's a privileged possibility, but there are others, even if at the moment they seem less likely.
Oh, I don't know. It seems very statistically unlikely that all my friends are part of the same demographical minority. And so firmly closeted, too.
They do. And since most of the time they do nothing that contradicts their answer, I see no reason to doubt their sincerity :| In any case I think I'm derailing the discussion here, this is no longer...
According to this blog, milk :) No idea how reliable a source it is.
To be honest, I think culture and society are a large part of this. This is an argument I've only ever had with Americans and Russians. Most guys bellow 50 in my country (particularly in my social...
Not really. I rarely do anything 'crazy' or 'dangerous', I might have crazy thoughts, but I'm not too keen on implementing them. I'm conservative in my choices. Very focused on self-preservation.
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Ignorance. A while ago a French girl asked me if France had taken part in WW2, and to be honest I wanted to hurt her. I can't understand how one can be unaware of that, particularly when it's their...
Oh! I thought I was the only one who did this. That's how the working titles for my illustrations are usually picked. I've had 'bedside table', 'potted plant', 'aluminium', 'kitten butt'... :| ...
I used to call all my characters Nifi(+something the character did), because Nifi was my real life nickname and I was just terribly original like that. I later began to call everything...
That used to make me rage, but lately I just think if they're not willing to make an effort to be understood, then I sure as hell am not going to make an effort to understand them, and move on. I...
I kind of crack myself up all the time, but no one else seems to ever find me funny so... I don't actually know how to answer this :D
I've always been agnostic. I can't justify to myself being any other way... I really don't know how to logically prove to myself the existence (or not) of a god, not in any way I wouldn't be able to...
I try to be, but I'm often told I'm not. I never set out to intentionally harm anyone, in fact I spend lots of time trying to come up with the most efficient way to do things, the one that will make...
