Well, not all of us are in the same weight class so it is hard to say between Hemsworth and Evans. I think they’re pretty evenly matched. I think it would go to the ground. Then I think it’s me, Ruffalo, and Renner in a quote-unquote three-way in which I lay waste to them with sleeper holds but then we cuddle. And then it is Hiddleston versus Johansson if I am not mistaken. That probably just winds up in dinner at a five-star restaurant somewhere.
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George R.R. Martin on writing women
- George Stroumboulopoulos: There's one thing that's interesting about your books. I noticed that you write women really well and really different. Where does that come from?
- George R.R. Martin: You know, I've always considered women to be people.
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Fan fiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped in a sealed bunker. They don’t do it for money. That’s not what it’s about. The writers write it and put it up online just for the satisfaction. They’re fans, but they’re not silent, couchbound consumers of media. The culture talks to them, and they talk back to the culture in its own language.
When girls say ‘I get on way better with guys than girls’ or something of that nature, all I can think of is this line from Pride and Prejudice
She is one of those young ladies who seek to recommend themselves to the other sex by undervaluing their own
Jane Austen had you all figured out way back when.
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And I have had one very well known Muslim voice say to me directly that a majority of Muslims share the extremist views.
Herman Cain and “his Muslim Friend” feeding into the same kind of American Islamophobia that caused a dramatic spike in hate-violence against Muslim-Americans.
-Joe
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I’m on research leave from my college this year in order to write a book that explores one central question: Do non-human animals grieve?
My answer is yes, they do.
It’s refreshing to answer a scholarly question without equivocation. Most often, I can’t do that. When anthropologists reconstruct how prehistoric peoples lived based on their material artifacts, or theorize about how monkeys and apes think about the world based on their behavior, disclaimers of what we can’t know often crowd out solid answers.
But from a combination of observation, evolutionary logic, reading the peer-reviewed science literature, and talking to insightful animal people, I’m convinced that animals may feel deep grief when another animal dies. Not all species, to be sure; if spiders and snails are ever found to grieve, I’d be the first to express astonishment. But I do mean more than only the usual suspects, more than the apes, elephants and cetaceans.
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Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.
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It’s not that I don’t love children, they are funny and I just love them, but I never wanted to have them. I really tried to want it at one point. I thought maybe I should. But I never convinced myself. I think some men and women just don’t have a deep urge to procreate. I think still it is very fine not to want children. There are far too many people in the world. It’s my contribution to ecology.
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I used to be good at tennis, too, but when I’m not working, doing nothing is more appealing than a hobby.
I can’t imagine anything worse than being required to have fun.
Well behaved women rarely make history
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“One had never seen anything lovelier in the world. Beside the beauty of her face and her well-turned body, she was superbly dressed and fantastically valuable jewellery adorned her attire. Her lovely face shone with faultless white skin and her hair was dressed with big white pearls, precious stones and extremely rare diamonds shaped like stars—one could say that her natural beauty and the shimmering of her jewels competed with a brilliant night sky full of stars, so to speak.” - Pierre de Bourdeille
Despite this good point, you’re still a douche.
I often say that everything I need to know I learned in Iowa.
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