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• To be frank, the list is endless. For example, just how many faceless, nameless soldiers die in the Star Wars movies?
  (posted to Let's Talk About Twilight (Just One More Time, I Promise))
• "Marital status" is a legally protected category... but some Googling seems to indicate that, as far as I can tell, there's no law stopping anyone for firing an at-will employee for being an abuser. On the other hand, unionized workers
  (posted to When haters go public)
• If you want to restrict the discussion to intimate partner violence, I can provide examples of that, too. The TV Tropes Wiki has a very long list.
  (posted to Let's Talk About Twilight (Just One More Time, I Promise))
• Okay, here's another long list: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ClingyJealousGirl
  (posted to Let's Talk About Twilight (Just One More Time, I Promise))
• The GRE is, indeed, classic bullshit. The "skills" tested by the GRE have almost nothing to do with what someone actually does as a graduate student. They might as well give an abstract IQ test.
  (posted to Racism and Sexism in Standardized Testing)

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• Hmm, you raise some interesting points about differentiating discrimination between the PSAT/SAT and GRE. However, I disagree with you about what graduate students should know when going into grad school. Graduate school programs tend to be concentrated in one subject, (posted to Racism and Sexism in Standardized Testing)
• ! Someone knows what I/O psychology is! (posted to Racism and Sexism in Standardized Testing)
• I didn't think that the abuse was meant to be erotic to the reader. It was portrayed as horrific and something that needed to be ended. Never did Bishop try to convince you that this was okay, that sexual abuse (posted to Let's Talk About Twilight (Just One More Time, I Promise))
• I work at a book store. Yes the Twilight hysteria is as bad as it sounds. Yes young girls and adult women will defend the creepy/abusive aspects of Twilight as romantic. And yes when 'Breaking Dawn' was released the girls (posted to Let's Talk About Twilight (Just One More Time, I Promise))
• I think alot of people are missing the major point of alot of these tests. It doesn't matter how relevant the subject matter is - what matters is can you LEARN something, remember, and do well on a test for (posted to Racism and Sexism in Standardized Testing)

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