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> hence the self-centeredness of thinking one is entitled to having children, resorting to all sorts of immoral technologies to have them Huh? I'm confused how you reconcile this (…

In what ways do you think it is wrong?

> To my mind, though, it’s important not to minimize the gravity of the fateful decision by conflating it with everything that preceded it. I confess to taking this sort of conflat…

"In recent months, Russia has once again been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons, with the US and Western media loudly proclaiming (since November) that Russia is planning …

My statement wasn't "things that disproportionally affect people based on sex"; it was specifically "policies [that] have outcomes that disproportionately burden women." This is a …

It is not women vs men. However, anti-choice policies do have outcomes that disproportionately burden women, which is another way of saying such policies are misogynistic, which is…

I think it's useful to consider that many women may not be comfortable naming or formally accusing her rapist (for reasons that include, way more often than you'd think, that a fam…

(1) Women are perfectly capable of supporting policies that have materially misogynistic outcomes. I agree some of the mainstream rhetoric doesn't emphasize this in the interest of…

...but people aren't allergic to other humans? I don't understand the point of this hypothetical that does not occur in reality?

fyi, "cis" generally means "your gender identity = the gender you were assigned at birth", as opposed to being trans. it's possible to be gay + trans, or gay + cis, etc, but being …

Why exactly were you arguing so vociferously when all this information was available just one click away , at the link the other user provided? This kind of comment (being unwillin…

Natural selection is not the only force that shapes evolution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evolution_of_Beauty ...tends to imply that beauty standards can, in fact, be quite …

On a related note, there's an app that will identify bird species based on photos that you upload ( http://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/photo-id/ ), and it's powered by "Visipedia", a …

Actually, recent research indicates that these two species began differentiating themselves a long time ago, but their lineages have since converged: they now interbreed freely and…

Okay. The phrase is in pretty wide use with more casual implications (googling “be respectful of your reader’s time” brings up a lot of marketing email advice pages, for instance),…

I’m not quite sure how sharing an anecdote about how I, personally, found it difficult to find information in a particular email conveys a “sense of entitlement”—perhaps my phrasin…

Counter-anecdote: I got the email, was excited to see that Starfighter was launching soon... but was annoyed that I couldn't quickly skim the rest of the email to get the "tl;dr" v…

"The guy has an MD from Duke; I doubt he is as religious as he seems" I don't understand what you're saying here—are you implying that MDs are somehow unlikely to be religious?

While I understand where the skepticism comes from, I think it's overly pessimistic to think nothing's changed since your time in the government, or that Recordon won't be able to …

Would you mind explaining why that bothers you? It seems innocuous to me.

Hilarious. I kind of dig how the "shitty ideas" aspect of it liberates folks to work on dumb-yet-amusing stuff.

You could make the gap between those note groups wider and it would become impossible. Even then, it is impossible to play for some—my piano teacher had rather small hands and had …

Physical property rights and intellectual property rights are different things. Expressing the value of allowing intellectual property rights to expire does not require arguing tha…

Tumblr seems to have toyed with this idea a bit in their paid/premium themes section: http://www.tumblr.com/themes/tagged/premium

for clarification: I'm fairly certain this piece is meant to be a satire of lifehacker/self-improvement/etc-ish block posts...