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What a horrible thing to say.

Life stuff happens as you get older. Jobs, moves, marriages, kids. Time becomes shorter. There isn't as much time for the things you describe. But I still have one or two friends from my early teens and even now, as I stare down the barrel of the big five-oh, we can not see each other for months or even years and then we speak and it's like it's 1993 again and we're all the same people, just a bit greyer and fatter.

I think the key question is: do you think that everybody should have to be like you?

I think that's kind of my point - to us Europeans, those accents sound the same.

Only heard about this anecdotally, but it's plausible that it would work. People who aren't from North America often have trouble distinguishing at least some American accents (generally the more northern ones) from Canadian accents. Like, you won't get away with it if you're from Texas or Louisiana or some such, but if you talk like Dan Rather or David Sedaris you can pass for Canadian in most places that aren't Canada.

Classy as ever, America.

"The Jewish Question". Ew. Ew ew ew. What a vile little man.

Why is it that the loudest proponents of the supposed "superiority" of the white race are invariably the most pathetic specimens of it?

(I know that's not the point, but it does seem to be a thing. The weaker the chin, the more virulent the racism.)

No weirder than any other kind of religious belief, I suppose. The Quakers have this kind of pretty loose approach to doctrine, for instance, and they're generally pretty decent people.

Er, no. No, this is just not how humans work. Even if we take love out of the equation and talk only about lust, that can be triggered by all sorts of things and a person's physical shape is only one of them. A particular look, the way a person smells, how they carry themselves, their voice, their charm, their laugh, and a thousand and one other things can be the thing that makes you want to jump someone's bones.

I'm not a native English speaker, so forgive my ignorance, but isn't "women" a noun, not an adjective? Why not just say "female artists" or "female writers"?

The English language is unusual in that it doesn't have gendered nouns, so we find other, often quite clumsy, ways to indicate it. You're right that it doesn't make sense grammatically; we say it that way simply because it scans better.

As a side note, I've also literally never seen anyone say "men artists" or "men writers". What gives?

Patriarchy. Society defaults to the male. That's not unique to the English-speaking world, of course.

Is it because he's an irredeemable See You Next Tuesday?