The official off-topic thread

http://skepchick.org/2013/05/the-fetish-for-dialogue/

This mainly has to with with feminism and atheism, but this is coming from someone who is bicurious. I hate how everyone romanticizes that sitting down and talking to people who put you down will make everything okay, especially if they are bigoted. If both sides willingly want to come to a compromise, that is fine, but I have no intention of ever standing up for or sympathizing with any anybody who calls me a disgusting sinner and seeks to deny me my ability to live how I individually want for any reason. The enabling needs to stop now before more innocent lives are claimed.

If one outright coerces two opposing forces to equally compromise, homosexuals and religious zealots for example, you in this case A) erase all of the torment that homosexuals have been through for simply being built differently and refusing to conform to traditional standards, and B) you deny both sides their autonomy and freedom of association. You will have forced people to give up their ability to fight their own battles. Then again, I once said that if one side is hellbent on keeping another down, then that side doesn't deserve to be themselves. You can't force a bullying victim to stand on equal footing to his bully, you simply cannot.

OK, but what has this to do with Aspergers Syndrome?

Honestly, I was just wondering what people with it would think.

I think it's logical, but that doesn't make it relevant to autism.

Moved to the off topic thread.

Oh, the wheels on the bus go round and round...

I like off-topic threads. Books, Cats and Beer are the three reasons I am still alive today. Things are pretty #######5 otherwise. I am going to go get the 3rd now, come back and cuddle with the 2nd while enjoying one of the 1st. LOL.

This thread is pretty quiet. I think I'll liven it up with a few frog facts!

- Frogs don't need to drink water, they absorb it through their skin.

- A group of frogs is called an army.

- The Bornean flat-headed frog is the first one known to have no lungs. It breathes through its skin.

- Most frogs have teeth, but only on the upper jaw. They use them to hold prey in place before swallowing it.

I have a question: Do the mods have to approve each and every msg in this forum? for all posts I made so far they seem not to have been posted, and I got a note saying it waits for mod approval now. Lets see how it goes with this post...

Hi Superstrijder15 ,

There is a period where a new members first posts need to be reviewed and approved by the Mod Team before they are allowed to post freely .

As we are all volunteers , occasionally this takes a day or two . You should be good now .

Welcome to the forums !

NSR