You can also buy travel bidets. Basically squeeze bottles that you can direct to the right places. Not as good as an actual bidet, but better than nothing.
Batman was a very good movie, but done in an extremely cartoony way. Nicholson's Joker was fantastic, but goofy. The X-Men took great pains to ground Magneto in the Holocaust.
When I saw it, I felt it was the first time that a superhero movie took itself seriously enough to have a good actors, a good script, and good effects. It put what had been in my head up on the screen, and in a way surpassed it.
Conversely, Japanese people learn to tell the difference between an "o" vowel held for shorter or longer periods, a skill that I find incredibly difficult even though I lived in Japan for 7 years.
A young woman I knew was complaining that she had made plans to meet a friend in the city (long before most people had mobile phones), but the friend hadn't showed up so she waited for a long time on the street corner.
My brother immediately chipped in, "what was his name, John?"
Coincidentally, I speak English, French and Japanese, and am learning Spanish (and I learned German and Sesotho in the distant past). I cheated, however all except Spanish were learned at least partially by immersion in places where they speak it.
That was the thing that bothered me most as well. It's supposed to be the most advanced society on Earth, and they use a kind of trial by combat to decide their leader.
Not to mention how clichéd it was in The Avengers for them to be running around with spears (or weapons that looked like spears), as if they had a particular fondness for a stone age motif.
It's a Brother B&W laser with integrated scanner. About 6 years old, so it should be fully supported. We can't view toner levels or scan from the printer (press a button on the printer to start a scan and have it automatically accepted by the computer. I have installed the separate driver for this functionality, but it isn't working).
We haven't yet tried some features like double-sided printing.
I installed Mint on my wife's computer last week, and we have had problems getting the printer to print, and then to scan. I've installed the manufacturer's driver a couple of times and it seems to do those functions okay, but some features still don't work.
Following on what you said, it's also true that for a long time it was difficult for women to get published in the science fiction genre. Many of them relied on male pseudonyms (i.e. Andre Norton, James Tiptree Jr.).
You can also buy travel bidets. Basically squeeze bottles that you can direct to the right places. Not as good as an actual bidet, but better than nothing.