DYHALTO'S PROFILE

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Disney is sexist?
If you watch Snow White today in 2013, the morals in it may seem old fashioned and/or discriminatory, but all it did was integrate commonly accepted values of that era and then simplify them because, after all, Disney makes children's movies.
If anything, discrimination now comes in the form of deliberately avoiding specific stereotypes (placing limits on creativity) based on the worry that someone might call "__ism".

Closer on topic, the real reason your girlfriend is wrong is because men and women aren't being portrayed in the same light. Men are dashing heroes and women are damsels in distress. Saying that's an equal comparison is like saying all blacks are inherently crooked and all whites are inherently virtuous.

I saw Lincoln the other day. Being a fan of politics and intrigue, I loved it, but I don't think I'd recommend it to everybody. As usual, everything Daniel-Day Lewis touches turns to gold.

You can achieve the distinctions you're talking about by selling two weapons at the same time, like a high damage sword and a lower damage with Undead-Slay as a bonus effect, available at the same shop.

The only thing I could suggest, synthesis-wise, would be to fit current weapons with items, materia-style. That way if you pick up a Ruby which makes your weapon fire element, both Zest and Takeshi could use it.

author=GreatRedSpirit
Don't get me wrong, building consciousness about the problem will help in the long run but there's going to be an awfully shitty period once that 6.8% comes into effect and when the people in charge are willing to do something about it.

This is one of those situations where the democratic system has to be exercised by us plebeians for once. Things like organized rallies and strike action have historically been able to force the government to do things it wouldn't ordinarily do.
Remember Occupy? They occupied public spaces and didn't demand anything, so uninvolved people saw them as anarchists and nuisances, and nothing changed. If they occupied now and demanded that this bill be passed, they'd receive more support and public officials wouldn't be able to go on record denouncing it without compromising the safety of their position.

A hunger strike would do the trick too.

If we wait for elected representatives to vote for it, then yeah, it'll never, ever go anywhere.

author=bulmabriefs144
Also, I think part of the reason college is so expensive (it's overshot alot of other things in inflation, my dad says), is because people started doing these loans in the first place. When everyone can afford college by way of loans, people are justified in raising prices with demand. When they default on loans, you have to raise prices anyway, to cover the fact not everyone pays (I've seen this sort of thing in rent to own places).

This is incorrect.
The reason tuition rates have gone up is the same reason rates go up for every other sector with some level of government subsidization : Not policing the rent-seekers. It's especially bad in the US where post-secondaries benefit from higher tuition, government lenders benefit from higher interest payments, and there's nobody to represent the paying student body.
If your proposed solution is the diminishing or abolition of student loans, a kind of blame the lower class for wanting higher education approach, then you'll fast track your society back 100 years to when education was a privilege of the rich.

author=slashphoenix
I don't know if it would affect me and my already existing Stafford loans

Actually, this is why you should be agitating to not only get it passed, but have it amended to allow the ability to refinance at the new 0.75% interest rate. You may feel like a lone individual, but I'm sure there are various organization leaders you can talk to, like if your mom/dad is unionized or your uni's student council.