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There is no list. Everything you put on their is inherently something that excludes other genders; i.e. here is a trait, whether it’s computer programming or athletic prowess, that distinguishes you from women, and is a proper and exceptional expression of your own gender. There’s too much variety for us to remain focused on things like this. At the same time we can celebrate all those things and more in people, as simply human characteristics. Going to go off on a tangent, but did you guys know that women were the first computer programmers? It was considered women’s work and now it’s considered something women aren’t that interested in. It’s amazing how arbitrary this all is. Another example, I think it was ... knitting? That once used to be considered a manly skill. A common thread in both cases is how men’s views (which is to say society’s) of the high skilledness of these tasks evolved (and they share similarities! Algorithms and repetition, patience and methodical approaches ...) and consequently the way they are prized and the genders to which they are associated. Such is our world.

So here's my strong conviction, while I'm at it: feminism and empowering women is one of the big movements of our time, and it is for *every* body. The toxic and regressive elements of the standing patriarchy weren't good for men, either -- aside from the dicks like Trump and say, the Mooch, the kind of people it especially rewards. There's a better, more fully human way to treat ourselves and others.

It's really interesting, isn't it, how buying into reverse discrimination tends to be such a broad spectrum thing.

Parks and Rec!!! Yes!!! <3 I don't think The Office is horrible, though. Parks is just newer. It taps into our time a little bit better. It's not even that new anymore, I guess. It's hard to believe how long ago now The Office was.

There is something harmful I think about how we always (even the general public, and even liberals) look at left-leaning (or even not very left-leaning) outlets and think, gosh, it's too tilted and then look at explicitly conservative advocacy and think now this is balance. It's the impulse that is at the heart of the cluster that has been the NYT editorial page recently. Like, finally, there's going to be conservative voices with a megaphone?

Update: I can NOT recommend Starbucks Iced Americano. Oh, man.

Facile and dishonest representations of liberals and liberal arguments fired off with regularity. But oh no, we're not fair enough to the "I want to be violent, but now is not the right time (later is the right time)" white nationalist. Guys, I'm just a reasonable conservative who detests Trump personally and he's a bozo, but he must be vigorously defended at every turn, be a little open-minded.

Ah, I see. I've never had Peet's so maybe I just don't know what you mean, but are you guys literally talking about spoons standing....I dunno. I feel like all the coffee I've ever had had approximately the consistency of water. I've become a big espresso drinker lately. Double shot (I think it's double?) and on the iced side, americano. I don't know if it tastes that different necessarily (I have really bad palette) but it's such an interesting drink. I like the way it looks.

lmao, you guys, it's of the utmost importance that we give avowed white nationalists context and nuance.

You guys, Ben Carson is good again. What a bar.

I mean, it's entirely consistent. Obama-era policies tried to push back against letting at-risk young people, especially minorities, fall into the trap of being over-policed and made into criminals. Intentionally or not, the system destroys lives early and sets folks on a path to crime. We know what people, any people, can do if given opportunity (keep falling up, Harvard Fellow Sean Spicer!) and we know what happens when opportunity is removed early and arbitrarily. The Obama position, the really scary one to some folks, is that this happens too much to minorities, which is obviously true, and we can do something about it. The UNL 23-year old is a white supremacist, right? These are not the people they're worried about.

The only way I know how to brew my own is press. Kind of watery, though, right? I like it, though. I used to drink lattes but I've moved away from the milk. Being in a big city has been great for my (relatively basic) coffee education. There's always something different to explore, and I'm often too busy to make my own.

He's just expressing himself and that right must be respected. Also, I'm a persecuted conservative on Huskerboard because nobody likes my views. Liberal tyrants!

Freedom is making sure 23-year-old kids like that can buy and own guns, stay on campus, and then if/when they follow through on their rhetoric using the weapons they must be allowed access to, we condemn "both sides do nothing about mental health" and try to lock up more of the mentally ill.

Ric, you've found your kindred intellectual spirit!

I use intellectual in the neutral sense. One can exercise one's mind in any number of ways. This is the particular way these guys have chosen, and what can we say, it really does it for them.

It's not that he believes those things. It's that "Hitler was a liberal" is a real argument circulating through the conservative intellectual discourse. Way to go, guys. Neo-Nazis are all in for Trump but liberals are the real Nazis.

How do you like yours? How have your tastes changed over the years? Where do you get yours?

The people running the White House are ducking awful. God. It’s way, way beyond thinking hey just are wrongheaded about policy (which is also true). They ply themselves every day in the art of finding people to hurt, and coming up with ways to hurt them. It’s so unnecessary. And then they go and do it. And the allegedly reasonable adults in the room, the Republicans in Congress and state legislatures and so on...what of them? They either love this, or don’t mind it, or aren’t bothered to try and stop it. a&#036;&#036;hole&#036; up and down the line.

Oh man, of course he’s a “Hitler loved animals and was vegetarian” type of dude. You’d think it’s a false flag meant to make conservatives look ridiculous, if not for the reality that these people are genuine in their convictions. If you were Scott Adams you might even regard such people (or person) as Master Persuadors. Trump is persuasive, in a way. He could actually convince his base to give s#!t all about due process. That latent authoritarian tendency in our populace has always been there, just rarely embraced so openly.

Starting to accept the possibility that this trolling that occurs in P&R periodically is all the same person. At least, I understand that this is exactly how it looks from this side now.

I prefer not to think about this, actually. I feel like this is the negative way of framing this. A lot of women are tremendously good-looking. Not all of them are models.

^Can we assume no "I know my own weapons personally" bonuses and no "my gun doesn't have a firing pin"? But yeah, I believe that the disadvantages aren't necessarily that great. The weapons you're describing all sound like extremely combat effective tools that are especially well suited for killing lots of people, and very difficult to go up against. Let's put it another way: say someone has your training and your weapons and they decide to go on a killing spree, picking a very soft target to do so. What can they do? How would they be stopped? I do not know where to draw the boundaries, but maybe 30 round, easily exchangeable mag/clip is a good place to start.

Every show is actually a soap opera, with some different window dressing.