Yaoi and yuri are NOT porn/hentai, they focus primarily on the relationship between the two main characters (which yes, can involve explicit sex scenes) and are geared towards a female audience, who read these stories mainly for the romance (not that I personally find these stories romantic, they are often super…

This is why I feel unease towards yaoi and yuri. Media that depicts homosexual relationships for a heterosexual audience almost never actually focuses on the REALITY of what it is like. I am very interested in queer life in Japan, but I have yet to find popular culture pieces that seem even the least bit…

Do you live in Japan? I've lived here for 19 years, and while I think it's a serious problem, I would not say it is "seriously out of control" or "next level." Ask Kat about bullying in American schools. She experienced it first hand. This is one reason I am reluctant to voice criticism of Japan to non-Japanese, and…

As Kat knows, I live in Japan. (Urban Kyoto, specifically.) I recently noticed what I am 90% certain is a trans girl of high school age on my daily train route lately. She wears a boy's school uniform but everything else about her (her hair, the decorations on her school-issued bag, the way she holds her bag, etc.)…

I think that in the US 40% consider or attempt, but I might be wrong, it might just be 40% attempt. I have never considered nor attempted suicide. I've always thought of it as "letting the bastards win," so it was never even a consideration in my darkest moments.

As usual the media missed the point. Donald Sterling WAS a racist, this tape of him just confirmed that he was STILL racist. I didn't watch the interview, because frankly why waste my time. But I think it would be safe to say that Anderson Cooper didn't ask him about his housing discrimination lawsuit, or…

Man, the bullying in Japanese schools is next level. Carrie had nothing on what happens to kids over there, and for the randomest things. I remember seeing kids viciously, viciously bullied for crimes such as 'having teeth that stick out slightly" or "hair that is brown-black instead of blue-black".
Some examples: http…

Hey, I think that Wayward Pines looks pretty interesting (though the music was insanely heavy-handed for the first half of the trailer)! I'm also liking this recent push some American TV has been making towards more British-style short seasons/series. You can accomplish a lot when you have 10 hours of story and you…

Because apparently it's okay shame smaller people by calling them anorexic but fat-shaming is off limits amirite?

...the girl was then called for an offensive foul.

Unfortunately I have no trouble imagining us doing that, but I think interstellar travel would be one of those Singularities everyone keeps talking about, and I can't really see around it, or what it would mean to humanity. I can only go by what we've done so far, when we conquer new horizons and find someone already…

They didn't last long enough for pictures to be taken.

Exactly. As a french citizen who spent the last ten years in between US and Canada (6 years in the US total), I'm baffled at right wingers calling liberals "communists", socialists and so on, terms they obviously have a hard time defining...

So much for right-wingers who claim to support the "invisible hand of the free market". Seems that only applies when it works in the favor of their preferred lobbyists' industry...

"We come in peace to contact your special human intelligence... PSYCHE!!!! We're here to take your water!"

C'mon, Deckard. I'm right here, but you've gotta shoot straight!

I want more life, fucker.