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I don’t like her acts or political agenda.
She’s not bad looking though. I find most women pretty.
People always assume I only want some thin model type.

That's interesting that you would assume I'm only referring to looks. Sure, she's not really my type, but I'm not implying she's hideous-looking. Could I date someone who looked like her? Perhaps.

But I find her work insufferable and can't imagine that I would get along well with anyone like that. To take from my comment that I wouldn't date an ordinary/average-looking woman is an incorrect assumption on your part.

Then I stand corrected, and I apologize.

Don't lose hope Inquisitor. We can do better than her!

I really don't see how attractive or what Amy's type is to you guys, has anything to do with whether or not her husband having Autsim could possibly create a "good press" for having a relationships with an Aspie.

Unless there is some talking about (beyond jokes), and visual observation of their relationship I don't see any influence happening on people. Maybe some bigger fans who take time to know more about a celebrity might find themselves more open(or closed) to having a partner on the spectrum like she does. Overall it's kind of just a fact that I don't think most people are going to note much. There would have to be something more active being put out from her platform vs just knowledge of her husband having Aspergers. Maybe there some of that being done but I or anyone else I know hasn't heard anything of it, so I'd be inclined to think it's still a largely within a particular group.

However I don't think a celebrity being with someone on the spectrum would necessarily speak to our hope of relationships. But then I don't know anything of this 'stigma' against dating an Autistic a lot of you talk about.

Interesting point. I've never heard anything say "Don't that so-and-so, they have autism." Is that a thing?

She's pretty obnoxious in general, but she also has a bit where she discribes herself (stone sober) having sex with an in-and-out-of-consciousness drunk guy, and makes fun of his performance (imagine a genderflipped version of that). And another where she makes fun of unmutilated penises.

Apology accepted. I understand why you would come to the conclusion that I was criticising Schumer solely on her looks. I would say though that even if I was, it wouldn't necessarily mean that my standards are so high that I would only consider supermodels

I had no idea who she was but it looks like her "average girl" look is very intentional and part of her artistic persona.

It makes me wonder... if you intentionally embrace average girl look, does it automatically make you a feminist?

That's one of the very common double standards.
Mocking of male sexual performance and of small penis size is so socially accepted in media and press. Just look how they make fun of Trump's "assumed small penis".
Now imagine if someone mocks of Hilary's boobs for instance.

Also in my opinion, all pro-circumcision are backwards, and I am just being very polite for picking the word 'backwards'.

Off-topic, but I absolutely agree, unless the male in question chooses to have a circumcision after reaching adulthood, or unless it's medically necessary, the "my body, my choice" argument touted by pro-choice women should apply to male infants too. In fact in most cases it is even more applicable, since at least women generally have some ownership in a situation where they become pregnant, where male infants have literally no say if the parents opt to get a third of their foreskin removed.

Why are men in the US circumcised?
I get religious Jews do it for religious reasons but some quickly googled statistics show there are about 2% of people declaring Judaism as their religion against over half of the men circumcised
I don't get it.

Well I'm not from the US, but I'd imagine that the statistics would be pretty similar here in Australia. I've heard a fear of the foreskin getting infected be sighted as a reason (though I've never heard of that happening), and the other main reason I've heard is that when the father is circumcised, he wants his sons to be like him. My dad is circumcised, and he wanted me to get circumcised when I was an infant to be the same as him, but my mum didn't allow it, and I'm glad she didn't, because as an adult I don't think it's morally right to remove any part of a baby boy's body, particularly in such a sensitive area, unless it is medically necessary. I watched an interview in which a guy had had a botched circumcision where the doctor took too much off, and this guy couldn't experience sexual pleasure and was permanently sexually dysfunctional as a result.

I agree with your mother.
I don't see any fundamental difference between infant circumcision for no reason and the so much deplored female genital mutilation. To me, both are equally barbaric - maybe because both are virtually absent in my culture.

Do they even use anesthesia?

In my country, doctors check if the boy is from a Muslim family = almost automatic circumcision; or usually the parents always say yes.

If it's from a Christian family = they ask parents first.

I was circumcised as newborn, just out of the womb.


Why in the US do it? Well....maybe because it's a largely devout Protestant culture and Protestants are the most Jews-like among Christians (Compared to Catholics and Orthodoxes) and value Old Testament more than Catholics. Islam overall is so Judaism-like as well.

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