I'm so evil and... skanky. And I think I'm kinda gay.

Willow ,'Storyteller'


Natter 43: I Love My Dead Gay Whale Crosspost.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


§ ita § - Apr 05, 2006 2:01:54 pm PDT #8998 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I would say that those are external pressures which might trigger change from within

Your original statement read much more like everyone outside should sit back and let the culture itself take care of things. I only have so much respect to go around. We all draw our lines in different places, but there's no way I can take a stance against all external influence.


Strega - Apr 05, 2006 2:11:17 pm PDT #8999 of 10001

It's not "more often" its "almost always". There is SOME reason for this amazingly disproportionate result.
Yes, but the correlation doesn't tell you what that reason is. Parents rape their own children significantly more often than children rape their parents, or parents rape other people's children, or children rape other children, etc. Does Occam's razor indicate that there's something inherent in parenting that predisposes you to rape your child?

I'm comfortable saying that men who rape women are not embracing sexual equality. I just don't know what that proves about the feelings the vast majority of men have toward women.

Also, A Way to End Female Genital Cutting. Oddly enough, it takes a village.


bon bon - Apr 05, 2006 2:17:49 pm PDT #9000 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

You people are my pregnancy experts. What say you: Beach ball or other beach ball?


§ ita § - Apr 05, 2006 2:21:32 pm PDT #9001 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I suspect that Angelina Jolie may well stay skinny throughout her pregnancy, so citing Katie's puffiness or lack thereof is not conclusive. If that entire bulge is supposed to be baby and baby shell, then it's not only not real, it's crappy FX. Maybe the wind rushed up her blouse?

Not that I am sold on it being the most convincing pregnancy, but more from the inconsistent belly sizes demonstrated near the beginning.


flea - Apr 05, 2006 2:22:50 pm PDT #9002 of 10001
information libertarian

Having been pregnant twice now, I think Katie is certainly within the bounds of possibility, especially for a first pregnancy on a very skinny woman. I looked like I was toting a (rather smaller) beach ball with my first, and as I'm 5'11" I had a lot of room vertically. I maintained a skinny face and arms and had no problems wearing rings.

Second pregnancy, 'nother matter.


Jessica - Apr 05, 2006 2:23:42 pm PDT #9003 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

If that entire bulge is supposed to be baby and baby shell, then it's not only not real, it's crappy FX. Maybe the wind rushed up her blouse?

Yeah, I'm voting wind or Photoshop there -- if they were going to fake a pregnancy, surely Tom Cruise knows makeup people who could do a better job than that.


bon bon - Apr 05, 2006 2:23:47 pm PDT #9004 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

I think it's the wind that makes that pic look particularly roundly fake, but no weight gain anywhere just looks freaky.


flea - Apr 05, 2006 2:25:24 pm PDT #9005 of 10001
information libertarian

Me, 9 months pregnant. [link]

YPMV.


§ ita § - Apr 05, 2006 2:28:13 pm PDT #9006 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Now you don't have to be dead (or dismembered) to be a diamond.


Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 05, 2006 2:37:40 pm PDT #9007 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

The image of two people kissing with that diamond between their lips is particularly skeevy given the tagline about making them from pet hair.