the funny thing here is that the Canadian system actually is really awful, because any *province* can suspend basically *any* right for however long they want.
So apropos my controversial thread of the past few days, many commenters have claimed that I'm being bigoted because I'm worried a schoolteacher mentioning homosexuality will turn my kid gay.
Obviously, this is not at all what I believe.
But I think there are some people who do worry about that scenario.... and there are also people on the other side who believe *so deeply* in the immutable nature of sexuality that they make similarly implausible arguments.
So first of all, it's important to just empirically demonstrate that sexual identity is not perfectly static. Here's a nice longitudinal study looking only at adults in the US between 1996 and 2006, so it isn't "young people discovering their sexuality." link.springer.com/article/10.100…
Pets are a huge part of many peoples' lives. We spend money on them, we care about them, etc. Human-animal relations writ large are kind of a massive field of human social life and crucial for understanding human society.
And yet, even though shifts related to animal domestication and husbandry are key elements in the rise of settled human life, virtually no social surveys included any questions about animals until very recently. GSS added a pet question in *2018*.
The 2008 Georgian war WAS DURING THE BEIJING OLYMPICS.
I'm not saying that Beijing hosting Olympics is the causal agent of Russian aggression, but I'm saying that for the sake of world peace, precaution suggests we should never let China host the Olympics ever again.
For those not keeping up, while we in North America were sleeping, Ukrainian and separatist forces exchanged a few hundred mortar rounds across the line of contact, and a Ukrainian kindergarten was destroyed.
Because there were no reported military casualties and because this was not a conflict confirmed to involved uniformed Russian personnel, this does not count for purposes of my running poll on war risks.
However, the result of this little exchange appears to be that Putin is demanding that the US *abandon all of its bases in Germany*, which is absolutely nuts.
One thing worth mentioning here is that this is now the 3rd or 4th article to cover this political turn to label young Korean men misogynistic despite no actual evidence of misogyny being presented. Maybe they are! This article doesn't show that though.
Like when you're saying it's rampant misogyny among young Korean men one would expect to have survey results showing that, idk, those men hate women or something.