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elstaffe
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"When girls go through puberty, their voices drop a little, too, but the male voice can drop by as much as an octave. Hillary's? She probably dropped by only a few eighths." (312) ma'am i don't know what you think an eighth is, but where I come from, a few eighths is in fact the same thing as a few octaves...
— Dec 30, 2025 06:05PM
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elstaffe
is on page 590 of 615
"assholes, quintessential, 433-35
see also cloaca; rectum" (590) I don't know if the see also was just some index software's auto suggestion, but I like to think it was an intentional humorous nugget for those who peruse indices
— Jan 01, 2026 07:11PM
see also cloaca; rectum" (590) I don't know if the see also was just some index software's auto suggestion, but I like to think it was an intentional humorous nugget for those who peruse indices
elstaffe
is on page 437 of 615
"I wish I could tell her, as I will tell my own children someday, that every power men have ever had over women is something we gave them. We just forgot.
We forgot we can stop."
— Jan 01, 2026 07:09PM
We forgot we can stop."
elstaffe
is on page 348 of 615
"The inner labia—nearly diaphanous flaps that nestle around the clitoris and its hood—" (348) I think we're going to have to agree to disagree about the definition of "nearly diaphanous" here. Maybe for very very pale people? But even so...
— Jan 01, 2026 07:06PM
elstaffe
is on page 348 of 615
"SEXY GRANNIES
Once upon a time, our apelike Eves had massive labia." (348) well, that's certainly one way to start a section
— Jan 01, 2026 07:05PM
Once upon a time, our apelike Eves had massive labia." (348) well, that's certainly one way to start a section
elstaffe
is on page 347 of 615
"We only learned [arctic bowhead whales] live as long as they do because we've found nineteenth-century harpoons in their sides. It's very hard to study the longevity of whales that live in deep, cold water, particularly when most scientists are only professionally active for forty-odd years." (347 footnote)
— Jan 01, 2026 07:03PM
elstaffe
is on page 302 of 615
"The majority of scientific stories about the evolution of human language fall in line: at each turn, human innovation has been driven by groups of men solving man-problems." (302)
— Dec 30, 2025 05:33PM
elstaffe
is on page 256 of 615
"But just like math, not all language tests are created equal. For example, the SAT verbal test includes a number of verbal analogy questions, where you're trying to determine whether one word is similar to another." (256) does it, though?
— Dec 03, 2025 07:37AM
elstaffe
is on page 199 of 615
"And the music is Strauss, loosely interpreting Nietzsche, in much the way we all seem to keep wandering the woods for the last two hundred years with a handful of German men." (199) what
— Dec 02, 2025 02:56PM
