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Not surprised; there was already that Bride class in Awakening.

http://fireemblem.wikia.com/wiki/Bride

If she passed the tests, I don't think it would have been right for them not to hire her. You can't have employers changing the rules at the last minute just to keep out job candidates they don't like for irrelevant reasons.

Also, if she's actually as fit as she says she is, I'm not going to lie, I wouldn't mind dating her. It turns me on when a woman is fat but strong. >_> She looks good to me in that first photo:

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/05/29/17/40EA473400000578-4552654-Showing_her_skills_Courtney_Harrough_24_works_as_a_deep_water_li-m-13_1496073618786.jpg

The fact that he's writing about this ahead of time suggests he's trying to make a scene. If he really just wants to see the movie at that time, he could go, say at the door that he's a trans woman, and maybe write about it afterward.

Revelation34 posted...

OmegaM posted...

As one of the commenters to that article said, this is probably no worse than ladies' night at a bar; but I wonder why those are legal too.

Because ladies' night doesn't ban males from the bars. This one does so it's different.

You're right; this Wonder Woman thing is a little worse, then. I just meant that since this Wonder Woman thing is just for one or two shows, it's not going to put men at a permanent disadvantage with respect to women, any more than ladies' night at a bar does. And if, as Foxx said, men-only clubs are legal in the U.S. and Canada, these sorts of woman-favoring events are probably legal too. I just wish the woman who wrote the original article had made those points instead of just going on about how it's time women had something for themselves.

As one of the commenters to that article said, this is probably no worse than ladies' night at a bar; but I wonder why those are legal too.

jamieyello3 posted...

Free money for everyone?

I'm actually not opposed to that for any moral reasons, but I worry that if everybody gets some free money there will be inflation to the point that the free money is meaningless.

I hate to say it, but the short hair really does make her less attractive to me. Maybe she got it so people would take her more seriously?

Pikachu because he's cuter. I know he's the default Pokémon for people who don't know much about Pokémon, but I don't care.

Is Ocarina of Time hard? I've never played any version of it because it looks hard.

Too bad Katy Perry's now lost most of her attractiveness by chopping off her hair. Maybe she did it so people would take her more seriously.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BUDTYSQBxPR/

Some people are making fun of her for this, but I think she's pretty hot in it.

SusanGreenEyes posted...

These are people who whine and cry about the fact that nobody will see sleep with them, mainly, because they spend their time whining and crying.
As a result, nobody wants to be around them, let alone sleep with them.

It's short for "involuntarily celibate".

From that clip, I wouldn't watch this show if it was just about a generic smart kid; but I like TBBT, so I'll watch this show if only to see if it has ties to TBBT beyond the initial premise. Maybe this show will be better when we can see whole episodes; when I see preview clips of TBBT, I often find them less funny than I do when I see them in context.

http://pervocracy.tumblr.com/post/160699779259/i-think-i-promised-a-while-back-to-post-a-sample

Thoughts? I think she sounded a bit like a guy even before the hormones.

I got 4. Assuming I can trust the information, I guess I'd better go, since I'll be dead if nobody stops the aliens. Or are the aliens not going to arrive for 100 years or something? If the aliens are going to come after I would naturally be dead, I'm not sure what I'd do. I'm leaning toward going anyway to stay out of jail.

2 Broke Girls has been cancelled:

http://deadline.com/2017/05/2-broke-girls-canceled-cbs-after-6-seasons-1202092530/

I thought it was still funny, but it was getting repetitive and I never really cared about the fates of the characters. Still, I wish it had gotten an official ending. I guess you can say that the two girls escaped poverty by marrying the men they got engaged to at the end of this season.

I think they're great as long as they're just due to the girl being fit and not due to her deliberately trying to remove all fat from her body to make her abs show. For instance, female gymnasts always have great abs.

https://cdn1.littlethings.com/app/uploads/2016/08/beach-850x1060.jpg

(Some of the members of the 2016 Olympic U.S. women's gymnastics team.)

Actually, I might accept someone as being something they literally aren't if they've spent long enough living full-time as that other thing. So if a non-white person continuously presents as white, self-identifies as white, and is treated by everyone else as white, I might consider the person white if this goes on for long enough, since for day-to-day interactions the person may as well be. (I won't say anything about people "transitioning" to races other than my own.)

I saw this criterion in the article supporting transracialism that caused so many SJW-type people to flip out; it's in the paragraph starting "I do not think so."

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/hypa.12327/full

As she says at around that point, this criterion might allow somebody to change their gender or race, but it probably wouldn't allow somebody to become a cupcake, since it's hard to see how somebody could convincingly present as a cupcake to other people.

I hear ads for that company on conservative talk radio a lot. Those shows lied to me.

Allisonata posted...

As a trans woman, trans race is not real. With sexes, development abnormalities may result, but with skin color, there's nothing.

Yes, I'm thinking that if somebody wants me to treat them as something they don't appear to be, there has to be something physical that makes it ambiguous to me what they actually are. I can assume that most transgendered people have brain structure and/or hormones that it make it not clear what sex they "really" are, but if somebody has "white" skin and no African ancestors, I don't know why I should believe that they think they're black as opposed to just identifying with black people.

2003 and 2005 for me.

They were pretty good years for the DS (2005 only) and Game Boy Advance, which are the only systems for which I've played many games that came out in those years. 2005 also had Riviera: The Promised Land (U.S. version) and DK: King of Swing for the Game Boy Advance.

(I've also played good 3DS games from 2013 and 2015, but relatively fewer.)

I saw somebody else making fun of this:

https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2017/05/08/more-academic-madness-published-feminist-analysis-of-squirrel-diets-and-reproduction-that-shows-that-squirrels-liked-marginalized-human-groups-are-otherized-and-gendered/

Also, there's nothing sketch about the article's web pages; they're at a standard publisher:

http://www.tandfonline.com/

I mean, do you think that someone could sincerely believe themselves to be of a different "race" than their outward appearance would suggest, and that the only thing that would help them would be for them to change their skin color and other features as much as feasible?

I suppose it could happen, but it would seem to be a very specific disconnect between a person's brain and the rest of their body, since what we refer to as different "races" of people really aren't that different genetically (or so I've read). In contrast, there are a number of genetic and hormonal differences between men and women, and there are intersex people, so I can see there being an "intersex" person who outwardly looks like one sex but internally has hormones and brain structure more like the opposite sex. And if somebody is "intersex" in that way, it makes sense that only hormones and/or surgery could help them (though of course different trans people need different treatments).

(I know I made a topic about this a few days ago, but I let it die before I said much in it, and it was also about a specific article rather than the general question.)

Called "Dancing Eyes". It looks similar to Qix.



Had you heard of it before now? For some reason it came up in my related videos list.

Why are they playing English songs if this is in Korea?

http://mashable.com/2017/04/27/anita-sakeesian-end-of-tropes-vs-women-video-games/

Did you see this? She'll be making videos about other social justice topics, but not focusing on video games.

Are you happy? I guess it was time for her to end her series on sexism in video games; she seemed to be saying the same things about women being powerless over and over. In her final video she says that most of the time when you have a female NPC helping you in a game, she's there only to unlock doors and toss you items; but I don't know if that behavior is really more widespread among female helpers than male helpers. I would think it would be common among all helper characters in games, since it doesn't require much AI. At least, I didn't have any pre-existing image in my mind of helpers as female or male, whereas if I think of someone who needs to be rescued in a game, I do reflexively think of a princess.

I didn't see the first one (and haven't read the comics), and the only reason I might see this one is because baby Groot looks cute. But I saw a preview clip with him, and and he started to get boring by the end of it, so I probably won't be seeing this movie either.

I start with both of my hands closed, then open one digit at a time, starting with my left thumb and ending with my right thumb. (I'm from the U.S., FYI.)

So this white female professor wrote an article saying that, if you support transgendered people for many of the common reasons, it's at least possible that there are transracial people you should support (transracial meaning that a person internally feels themselves to be a race other than what they are by external criteria, as Rachel Dolezal supposedly feels). Then the article angered a lot of people, and the journal that published it apologized and said that it should have been rejected.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/05/transracialism-article-controversy.html

Anybody have any thoughts? I can't read the actual article, so I don't know how many arguments about the difference between race and gender it ignored; but if it is that obviously bad if you know a lot about these issues, it's unfortunate that the journal didn't reject it and keep the professor from making a fool of herself.

TheWorstPoster posted...

The second 90% of the time is condensing everything and reorganizing it, and simply doing nothing but reading and debugging the mess you made.

I'm pretty sure they make you do the condensing and reorganizing so that if, hypothetically, someone has to make changes to the code months or years later, he or she can quickly see what needs to be done and not have to worry that the whole thing will crash for no apparent reason.

As for the debugging, I guess it's annoying, but you can't avoid it, since if the code isn't doing what it's supposed to, it doesn't help anybody. Obviously some bugs are bigger deals than others.

Three:

one for going straight through a right-turn-only lane (before that, I had always thought that that was just a suggestion >_>)
one for blocking an intersection because the cars were too backed up in front of me (due to a red light that I thought was going to turn green in time)
one for making a left turn at a no-left-turn intersection (which I had done many times before, but at some point the intersection got a no-left-turn sign)

I didn't know they got gray. >_>

fettster777 posted...

Sunday because that's what calendars look like.

That's also why I voted for Sunday. Also, to me it makes more sense to have the sun and moon days right next to each other in a given week.

I guess to some people it would make sense to start the week with the moon day and end the week with the "opposite", the sun day; but I at least always say "sun and moon", not "moon and sun", so it feels wrong to have the sun day at the end.

You mean, Why is saying one racist thing enough to get you fired with no hope of getting a good job again?

I assume it's because the companies don't want to be boycotted, but I also suspect that a lot of white people who get super-angry about racism just want to be able to hate someone.

Maybe the Thai girl looks better in the off season?

Zeus posted...

Given how often hosts make these kinds of off-the-cuff remarks, I can't imagine he's in any actual trouble.

I just meant that a lot of people on the internet are angry at him.

After a clip of Ivanka Trump speaking, Fox News host Jesse Watters said, "I really liked how she was speaking into that microphone." Maybe I'm too innocent, but I thought he just meant she had a sexy voice---which would probably also get women angry since this was on a news show, but isn't as bad as a blowjob reference. What do you think?

EightySeven posted...

OmegaM posted...

She seems fit for her age

??

She looks obese.

I was referring to the article I linked to, which said she won four gold medals in her age division at a state competition.

PMarth2002 posted...

Over the phone, not in person.

I too often get called ma'am on the phone. I'm not sure why; my voice doesn't sound high-pitched to me when I hear it played back.

I answered yes to my own question. I might even do it for free, but I'm pretty desperate. For some reason a woman being a swimmer automatically increases her attractiveness to me, and for all I know she might be fitter than me.

I voted 10/10 only because that's when H.E.R.O. came out, and it's one of my top 10 video games.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.E.R.O. (you'll have to manually type the . after the O)
https://archive.org/details/atari_2600_h.e.r.o._1984_activision_john_van_ryzin_az-036-04

Maybe it's on my top 10 list only because of my amazement that it was done on the 2600, but the first time I played it was only a few years ago on the Archive, so I'm not being completely ruled by nostalgia here. It feels a lot like Metroid, though much more linear.

TheWorstPoster posted...

The primitive slab of wood-grain plastic was good enough to force NASA to update their protocols of the Space Shuttle program,

What was that about?

http://media.jrn.com/images/090806swimmer1_w_4738986_ver1.0_640_480.jpg

Just wondering how desperate some of you are.

She seems fit for her age, at least. She also doesn't think she "behave[s] like an old woman".

http://archive.redding.com/lifestyle/82-year-old-woman-keeps-on-swimming-ep-377446436-355566391.html

I broke up with a girl over email, and then she drove over a half hour to my house to try to get me to take her back. Fortunately, she didn't stalk me anymore after that.

I met him at a convention. There were a few other people with him. Maybe one of them was Mike; I haven't watched enough Cinemassacre videos other than AVGN ones to recognize the other people on the channel.

He was signing things, so I had him sign a mini-poster that came with my Atari 5200, which was the first video game system I had. I hoped he was going to be like, "Oh my god, how did you deal with a system like that?", but he didn't have much to say. I asked him if he ever got to play his Atari 5200, and he said he thought he did, but that he didn't have many games for it. So it was kind of underwhelming.



For what it's worth, I never had any trouble with my Atari 5200 controllers. Maybe they've degraded over time; I don't know because I've forgotten how to set the system up and might not even be able to with my current TVs.

Ever see anything good?

Related to my earlier comment, it would've been funny if one of his enemies was able to play some Sting music over the building's speakers as he was walking out of Fox News for the last time.

Maybe if it was in a big "modern" city in a country with English as an official language. It might be neat to see how it compared to a big U.S. city. I'm not interested in working in some wilderness area.

Do you think Bill said "This fucking thing sucks!" after they told him he was fired?