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  1. This clip tells me most of what I need to know about gendered behavior in children and how it develops. It's mostly adults who impose it at a very early age as soon as they know they're looking at a girl or a boy. You see it in small things like the stranger who will tell a mother on the street how pretty their girl baby or toddler is while they would not say that if they're told it's a boy. Even those of us who try are often trapped in our own gendered world and behavior. It happens so early we don't even remember it happened. And as adults it's so ingrained that we barely notice doing it. We talk differently to them and we treat them differently in so many little things. Even us tomboys become aware eventually that we're not "appropriate" and change behavior to some degree. I do hope the discussion about gender continues, so the next generation of parents will have an increasing awareness.
  2. I've seen threads here where posters incessantly keep repeating themselves, constantly arguing against someone else's opinion even after warnings. I don't want to mention which ones but one was shut down, another was for a TV show that doesn't air anymore, so the thread itself quieted down. But I can see that some shows may be prone to that kind of behaviour. I'm guessing that it's not about voicing an opinion about the TV show but how that is voiced and possibly repeated constantly. And if it's a reality TV show, actual people get attacked in various ways, not fictional characters. That can get uncomfortable when repeated constantly. Granted, I don't watch this stuff, so I don't actually participate in those but, giving the moderators the benefit of doubt, I'm guessing that is something they want to shut down if posters can't reign it in. Just to give a hypothetical example. There is a difference between snarking on a fictional TV character's dress sense vs snarking on a real person's weight gain.
  3. If that were true, you would find pronunciations like that around the country, not just in one town. And with other words too.
  4. About saying no. I'm watching a documentary on Netflix: Feminists, what were they thinking? and Jane Fonda says about all the times she said yes because she didn't know how to say no. "I've only known for 10 years that no is a complete sentence". The film is from 2018.
  5. Women are still accused being not real one way or another. Having short hair, wearing this or that, no makeup, having no children, staying single.....being a lesbian probably gets you also told you're not "real", never even mind transwomen. Any time someone accuses people of being not a real something or other, I always wonder WTF that is supposed to mean. Unless there is something like a passport documenting membership of "real group", it's an entirely pointless accusation. And if we are still debating how wearing pants is not womanly, then we are really still debating on the level of about 100 years ago.
  6. I recommend taking the Covid test a few times. When I had it last summer, it only showed a positive on the fourth day after I started having mild symptoms. A negative result doesn't necessarily mean you don't have it. By the time it registered positive, I had a full-blown fever.
  7. River's character for me was often saved by Alex Kingston's performance for me who managed to shave off some of the ridiculousness Moffat made her say and do and managed to imbue her with something more than a weird combination of hero-worship and "I'm so sexy because I have a gun" weirdness. A collection of Sci-fi trope-ish female characteristics with a gun. Still, it's difficult not to roll my eyes sometimes. Both Amy and River were interesting to start with but he never made them compelling characters with a rich inner life. A compendium of catch-phrases and tropes whose life revolved around the Doctor. More so with Amy but even River.
  8. My cats ignore the toy box. It's like the toys don't exist when in the box. The box is like an alternate universe. I have to take them out and then they go Oh! A toy! How nice! I'll play with it a bit! Or not, depending on ... I don't know what.
  9. I have a cat who eats fast and then tries to steal from the other. My solution was to get the thief a slow-eating plate to give the other one time to finish. Also, I keep the slow one' eating on the counter and the fast one on the floor. So even when she's fast, she needs to get there and I can see her sneaking up on the other ones (most times). They're quite used to it and are mostly out of teh habit of stealing. Maybe get them used to eating in different rooms? Or at different times? Or put Ginny's bowls somewhere that really only allows one cat access? I'm thinking a tunnel-like structure? With everything I've tried my cats to do, giving them a "better" or distracting habit-forming works probably best in the long run.
  10. I've been watching some reviews and retrospectives and learned that Matt Smith took some time to decide if he should leave. I wonder if that affected the writing in season 8. I always felt that Moffat wrote like for Eleven in season 8. Or it was simply he couldn't switch gears until later. I wonder if that's why I didn't click with Twelve. I loved all NuWho doctor's before. Or maybe it simply was Clara who made me clench and cringe from her first appearance and that never went away.
  11. I'm quite grateful that I don't have much storage space in my condo. I'm also grateful that my temperament won't let me accumulate stuff (well, except cat toys, it's a sickness!). It stresses me out more having stuff than throwing out things that I think I might need. And then don't in 5 years. Overall, I'm not very sentimental about stuff. A mug from a friend, a picture from another. A collection of postcards. What I feel sentimental about could fit in a small box. Having said that, I have a whole drawer of screws and brackets left over from various furniture assemblies. I think, together with my clothes closet, that will become a victim of next spring's purge. I'm quite looking forward to that! I don't have family here in Canada, so whoever will have to clean out my place should have an easy time of it. Assuming I won't change my habits in my old age. I would say it's worse with houses of any kind. More space.
  12. Yes, I'm sure that wasn't the problem. I don't remember if Noel Clarke already behaved like an ass on Doctor Who but I am now wondering if stuff like this also made Eccleston speak up and it got shut down. It seemed also like the production was a terrible mess in the first year (and later too for a while). I was watching David Tennant's video diary from his first season and he was talking about how they were already behind with shooting and apparently someone on the crew mentioned that this was nothing and that the year before they were already about 2 weeks behind schedule after one or two episodes. So, depending on how Eccleston might have voiced his concerns and how RTD and co were reacting to it, it sounds things were just as messy as Eccleston said they were. Not that I ever doubted it. He doesn't seem to be the type to blow things out of proportion. And the BBC telling some weird lies about his exit certainly didn't help, especially when there was silence from the production team on that too. Eccleston seemed to feel a responsibility to voice his concerns as a more established actor and when nothing was helped or done, he got mad, partially, it appears to me, on behalf of the crew. Whereas, David Tennant was just happy to be there and probably didn't feel like it was his place as the new guy. Just my impressions after watching those video diaries with the Eccleston exit in mind. Don't get me wrong, I adore RTD, his enthusiasm and his writing most of the time but it was his responsibility and he handled it very badly. To get things to such a point your experienced main actor runs off on you, you mishandled things.
  13. Etymology of the word and its pronunciation. https://www.etymonline.com/word/aluminium#etymonline_v_26091 Btw, it's also aluminium in German with similar pronunciation.
  14. Such a nice sentiment. He should be careful saying that. This is Disney after all. If this is successful enough they'll be milking it until everyone is thoroughly sick of it. He might survive after all. Or there will be a sequel.
  15. They're unlikely to be actual truffles. https://10best.usatoday.com/interests/food-culture/youre-probably-eating-fake-truffles-heres-how-to-tell/ Real truffles go by about 3,000$ per pound and are generally quite rare and cannot be found very often. I seriously doubt that Popeyes will have that actually on the menu. White truffles are even more expensive and can go by up to 200,000Euros per kilo. And what is often sold as truffle oil, is usually not. https://www.tastingtable.com/693090/truffle-oil-fake-no-truffles-priceonomics/
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