1 They are still brothers.  They may think they are sisters, but that is because they are insane.

2 If you said that in the Metafilter thread I linked to, you'd be crucified.

3

Actually, your comment would be deleted. For all their pretensions to being "open-minded" and valuing "diversity", they seem quick on the deletion trigger these days. I've had two comments deleted in the last week, and neither of them were abusive or involved any invective.

One was in an abortion thread (pro, of course) where I pointed out the similiarities between the anti-abortion movement and the anti-gun movement in terms of tactics. It lasted about ten minutes.

4 I'm with Mark on  this one. 

5 Don't get me wrong! I agree!

6 I agree with Steven that any such comment on Metafilter would either generate an excrement storm or merely be deleted.

Double-plus-badthink cannot be tolerated, you know.

In minor fairness to the Wachowski brothers, I don't think their insanity is to the point where they are completely dysfunctional.  I assume that they are able to interact with more-or-less sane people without a lot of difficulty.

As I've mentioned to other people, every family can have a crazy uncle or two but if all of your relatives are insane then nothing good can come of it.