What do feminists want? One ludicrous misogynist has an explanation

So I don’t know if this is the case everywhere but aren’t bandaids free of tax? If that’s the case then why are tampons and pads supposed to be luxury items when they are meant for pretty much the same thing?

wwth

Sorry, I didn’t mean to sound like I didn’t think you already knew that. I guess, just, if they’re revising history, why not the YMCA, too. I mean, I heard one of the branches let someone’s Atheist grandma swim in their pool*. It’s almost like they’re not trying to be an exclusive safe place for young Christian men at all, anymore. 😉

Of course, more to your point, I agree that the YMCA doesn’t seem anywhere near as cool or current.

*I made this up.

@sunnysombrero – I just wanted to say that a friend of mine was borderline phobic about smears (due to a history of sexual abuse… long horrible story) so she spoke to her doc who prescribed her a mild sedative. She told the clinic ahead of time that she’d be woozy, so she arrived medicated, had the procedure done while relaxed and a little out of it, and was treated very kindly and carefully by the clinic staff throughout. I don’t know if meds are appropriate for you, but maybe this is an option to talk to your doc about? Good luck. 🙂

@Troubelle

I can probably get the few other people who know Borderlands to participate by mentioning that I found the doc I have where I sorted all the characters from all four games into Hogwarts houses.

As we know, Hogwart houses are super cereal biz.

(Besides, this thread is pretty much about a Migwhoever talking about periods anyway so meh.)

I’m still cracking up that Little Adami thinks that people with government jobs are somehow paid with different currency and spends that currency in some super sekrit manner that is divorced from the US economy.

When you create these jobs, what you do is you take money away from others in the form of taxes in order to create these jobs. The money that you take from people in order to create these jobs is money that could have been spent actually stimulating the economy through purchases made on goods and services in the private sector.

How come government money is all empty calories when it comes to what a federal employee spends it on, and all ra-ra free market economy-driving forces when it’s given to a defense contractor and they pay their employees to produce an F-22 Raptor the military doesn’t want?

I bet it all comes down to you don’t like taxes because you wanted to spend that money yourself, on yourself. Well tough. Contributing to society is the price of being in a society. It’s an oblige, even if it’s not very noblesse.

And we don’t need “makework” jobs right now. We have crumbling infrastructure. Let’s have government programs that give money to the states that they can only spend on roads, bridges, sewers, power grid, and the like. None of this block-grant crap that just gives money to the states with no instruction. I’m sure there’s plenty more things that need work, too.

Damn, Miggs disappears from this thread just when I find some more gifs for him. Oh, well, here goes.

@Troubelle

I admit, I waffled between Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw but the fact most of the missions he sends you on is to gather information about Pandorian wildlife and wants to get recognition for his work pushed him into Ravenclaw.

What would you sort him in, if you would divulge? (TBH, I’ve been wanting to get a more opinions on my list anyway in case I forgot something.)

@Falconer
Honestly compared to the new tanks that are commissioned while bone yards are full of the exact same model of tank the F-22 is a bargain simply because they will actually be flown.

http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/09/army-to-congress-thanks-but-no-tanks/

I would really prefer my tax dollars go to NASA
(or even -gasp- tampons!) instead tanks no one wants.

@Belladonna

Squee! I loved classic X-Com. Little, dark, square grid maps with scary aliens popping up in the worst places, and so on. I could have sworn there were some brown guys on my squad, too, though. Am I revising my memory? Not the women, though. I think they all had blonde ponytails.

I’m pretty certain that the battlefield sprites only had one male, one female, both white and blond. The equipment screen sprites were a bit more nuanced, though. Someone has been good enough to extract the original images and post them online:

Terror from the deep had more art assets, but it has been so long since I even looked at that game I really can’t remember what the in-battle soldiers looked like. Never did complete it, now I think about it. Maybe its time to re-install.

Never tried the modern remake. The tiny squad limits in all such games just irritate me.

@Handsome Jack

I agree with your decision. The sort to seek knowledge and so forth–it only makes sense, and it’s what occurred to my mind first.

@Pie and Falconer
I’m side-eying myself really hard right now for remembering the load screen had men of color but not remembering it had women of color. It’s kind of hard to figure out exactly what my brain was doing 20 years ago, though, so I guess I’ll just try and put up some warning signs and do better.

Thanks for the picture, though, Pie. That was a nice nostalgic rush!

Falconer, I started the remake on normal, but after losing a country, I restarted on easy. I don’t actually think there’s any amount of skill that can let you avoid losing countries on higher difficulty settings. The intent is that one way the difficulty is increased is that you are forced to lose countries and then have to proceed with the game with more constrained resources. Civ games are kind of the same way. To win at the hardest difficulty levels, I think you have to be able to roll with some losses and keep on trucking. But I can’t take the psychological hit and will just start over, so I’ve never made it beyond Prince difficulty.

Mostly I play games with story and only like a little bit of challenge (with exceptions like Ori and the Blind Forest, which was pretty hard but still the best platformer ever in the history of games). I’ll spend hours reloading and exploring conversation trees in Bioware games and deciding exactly what I want my character to say, but I want to just mostly roll through the combat with low amounts of risk, let the AI manage my allies, have a basic feeling of awesome, and get on with the story. So I guess I’m not a real “hardcore,” but I spend a hell of a lot of money on games, and I think a reasonable portion of the market of both men and women gamers is likely a little bit the same way.

I only played Wolfenstein The New Order for about an hour, because I just couldn’t get past being offended by the difficulty settings. I mean, I thought it had kind of an intriguing storyline and some interesting characters, but if the game designers thought I was a big baby or a slack-jawed idiot for wanting to enjoy those aspects of their game, then they clearly thought those things weren’t worth playing for. So why should I think they will be? And no more of my dollars are going to Bethesda because of it. No Doom reboot or Fallout 4 for me. (Not that I’m hurting them much.)

sez MrsObedMarsh: “I’m still curious about how to arrest my biological functions! Can you explain it now?”
Step one: Find a coöperative law-enforcement officer…