T_Clark

So, I rephrase your argument as a way of putting myself in your shoes?

I have no idea what "steel man" means in this context.

If I agreed with this, Burr's clip wouldn't mean much to me. I see the things he's talking about as something universal for men. Certainly for me, my ...

As we say here in Massachusetts, "So don't I," which, for some reason means the same as "So do I."

Yes, BC. That's why it isn't a good joke. Freud wrote a whole book about jokes, didn't he?

Obviously, as you noted in your later posts, it's because we Delwarians are not slack-jawed yokels.

Actually, it is a bad joke, even ignoring the slur. Badly written. Too long and convoluted. Lame punchline. Oh, yeah. I almost forgot - not funny.

I've used that quote in the past and attributed it. Almost everything I know is plagiarized. There haven't been any new ideas since Og Eep the great N...

I don't know.

And music was provided by The Lovin Spoonful.

To be fair, I should have said it differently.

I'll put in another plug for this "60 Minutes" story about how moral judgement develops in very young children. It has a lot to say about your questio...

As one of the people who made this kind of statement to you, I'll respond. To be clear, I gave specific reasons for my disagreements with you about ge...

I put my vote in for Manhattan, Hannah and Her Sisters, Crimes and Misdemeanors, and Midnight in Paris. I also have a deep and abiding affection for T...

Another point. I think we should start over at zero so the old guys don't feel all superior.

You know TMF, not everything that seems goofy or hard to explain is a paradox.

I don't think society is collapsing, but I think we're entering a very dangerous time. Humanity more and more has learned to modify the very ground of...

Forgot the clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmTgpsvkqt8

I don't see that, at least not with the artists I named. I think they have shown themselves as legitimately weak and vulnerable. I think comedians are...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUnibKe_o18

I mean this as a serious question. Would a genderqueer person be diagnosed with gender dysphoria? It seems to me they wouldn't.

Upvote for the image.

To open this discussion up, there are a bunch of male artists who come to mind when I get into this type of discussion. R. Crumb, a cartoonist and the...

TimeLine used to swear there was no Patrick Stewart, only Jean Luc Picard.

I find Cruise much creepier than Allen.

Annie Hall is one of my favorite movies. Loved it then. Love it now. Most of Allen's movies are about "bourgie self-aggrandizement." That's kind of th...

I think it would make more sense if Mr. Cleaver was God, Mrs. Cleaver was Mary, and Beaver was Jesus. Eddie Haskell would be either the devil or Judas...

I always had a thing for Mrs. Howell.

I voted to get rid of it, but it's not a big issue with me. However you decide will be fine.

This is a really good point. I'd give you an upvote, but you're at 69 and I'm unwilling to change that.

Whatever positive changes have taken place in the status of transgender and genderqueer people in recent years are completely and absolutely tied to t...

Yes, well, it is probably appropriate that the forum has less stringent standards than society at large. As far as I know, Hanover is still looking fo...

This is an inaccurate definition of what "political" means. The things you describe are definitely political in nature. If you are planning action to ...

Adults make decisions for minors all the time. That's the way it's supposed to be. The underlying assumption is that parents are the best people to ma...

I think this is a naive view. There are certainly aspects of our identity we can't choose. We can't choose to be an adult or a minor. We can't charact...

Well, kiss my grits.

Gay people have come to be accepted in society by most of us. That's a very good thing. Although I have a lot of sympathy for some people who suffer f...

I tried that. I listened to "War and Peace" in 20 minutes. It involves Russia.

Of all your fantasies, this is the wildest. Have you read these books? Their arguments are no better than yours. They're badly written, intellectually...

You call it an "interesting fact." I, on the other hand, when I make something up, call it a "little known fact."

There's not a lot of defending required. I think you and I are pretty close. I guess I see it more in line with your idea about a structure floating i...

Didn't the Irish Celts migrate into Scotland and kill off all the indigenous people? That was in 1959. No, wait, 459 BC.

Before I became an engineer, I was a psychology major. I don't think the Myers-Briggs is very useful. It takes what is basically an engineering approa...

As I said, you and I have both made these types of argument before without success. Not much chance of it working here.

I think you're right.

To be fair, in the Catholic Church at least, intellectual arguments for the existence of God have been pursued formally for at least 800 years. Hindus...

No serious scientist has suggested the existence of "higher-dimensional beings," as a serious proposal.

It's only because they couldn't get a permit to bury the bathtub through the sidewalk.

Again, it's what humans do. Here's what you wrote in your OP. My post was in response to this. You make something easy look hard for your particular r...

I'm retired now. I don't have to work and I love it. I would have done it long ago except I needed to eat; I needed a place to live; I needed to be ab...