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'Not want to believe' is not the same as 'refusing to believe.' Especially not in Susan's case. If there is any character more painfully honest with herself than Susan is, I have a hard time thinking of one. I do not see denial holding her back for very long.

Fun fact : There was a african (black) dynasty of Roman Emperors. Though I always figured justifying the Genocidal actions taken against "the Savages" (Native Americans) was another large part of the creation of Racism. It does seem like it really comes about when Europe started conquering the rest of the world, as a justification for their conquest and subjugation of all those non european countries (and Ireland).

Yeah, i'm with hack. this is a character who came into the series with a dozen prejudices, and has since worked past them thanks to observation and logical deduction. That doesn't strike me as someone who would be unable to get past their own denial when presented with an uncomfortable truth.

But H5N1 is still Influenza, which isn't new. Nor does what emerges from the box have to remain static once its out. When we talk about gender identity, it is quite an old topic (many cultures do have some language that dates back far enough to demonstrate this). Western culture being forced to acknowledge it? That's a new thing. Previously, it was just erased as mental illness if acknowledged at all. Hell, we're still seeing society defend reparative therapy in the last few months for trans people. And again, you take what was meant to be colorful language, and are focusing on the more literal details of the analogy. That's what I take issue with, since it isn't really relevant to the point I was trying to make. Do I expect the language to become fixed? No, but I do expect it to settle down to something manageable at some point. But that takes exploration, which takes time. And in the US anyhow, we're only now deciding to actually explore, question and learn.

I'm guessing someone similar to Elliot or Ellen behind the beard. The bartender needs a source of hair. The hair will be discovered in the dark British ale and we will then be reading HAIRY PORTER AND THE WRITER'S BLOCK.

This is why you do not involve Elliot in the plotting. Just give him the information you want to get to Susan If you tell Elliot a story, and he accepts it, he will then repeat it as the truth, to the best of his knowledge

No way! Elliot is not exactly a good liar, and Susan knows him pretty well. He'd give away that he was hiding *something* by his guilty behavior, and then Susan would have it out of him before Nanase and Diane got as far as the Pompoms' living room!

He's also more likely to fake a seizure.

I, however, have the requirement to be a malicious, domineering, pitiless and brutal Sith Lord. I have a banhammer.

I use to find it easier to just wait till they would start clearing out the new releases, and buy their 2nd hand copies rather then rent and risk a late fee. It was often cheaper if I did not get a rental back in time as well. I miss rental places because I enjoy the extra extra features like deleted scenes you do not really get through streaming services. There is still a rental store in the town I live in now, but I am in a remote location where the internet is expensive and limited (the highest plan in town I know of is 50GB / month and over $100) so many people have not bothered switching to netflix.

Maybe Big Bang Theory should do a Big Bang cliffhanger?

I know one that does the former. You'll always get that paranoid feeling as to who (or even what) is it talking about in any sentence. As in, no gender, no delegation for non-human objects. The pronouns are one-o and the same-o. Major advantage in some ways, I would say. Say, did we not have some kind of a language thread before?

Another report on Leicester City F.C. 5,000:1? Did anyone here put £200 on the Foxes back in October?

obvious? maybe. creepy that you left the bit about being six at the time in, with no context as to what was changed that needed censoring? definitely.

It was meant to be colorful language. Again, it's kinda a weird pick to nit. Even if I said yes, I could also say we're still finding them. If we were to go by the original story, the box was empty of everything but hope once the evils were unleashed. But it doesn't mean Pandora was able to catalogue them all as they came screaming out, or encountered them all during her lifetime even. The gender box has been opened for quite a while, it's just more recently that western european culture has been willing to examine what came out. Except, you can run into this in many situations. Replace terminology with other words, like policy, and you just described a lot of groups (very few groups are homogenous, even if they are "single issue" groups). Yes, it is a controversy in some trans circles (apparently not the ones I'm involved in, we must hang out with different people), but that's okay, and allowed. And yes, on some issues you can take sides and offend the other side (i.e. abortion) and not really have any way around it. When it does happen, it sucks, but I point to OldHack's approach as the best standard approach to work with. Deal with the individual, don't worry so much about how unified the group is (or isn't). (I meant to post this yesterday, ugh)