They have three red pandas at my local zoo, and I don’t get it. They look adorable in pictures but in real life they seem kind of boring. I prefer the lemurs and meerkats. Maybe it’s because they’re more active at night?

I have never heard this before.

You want a fully trained massage therapist, not a spa masseuse, because you’re looking for more than just relaxation. Some specialize in sports injuries, while others are more focussed on other things (e.g. trauma). If you’re looking for someone who specializes, you can try online, but also through places that are…

Instead of taking a complete break, you could go with something like sensate focus exercises, or non-sensual massage, so that you’re dialing back on the pressure without quitting completely. Something like that could be fun regardless.

This is why I favour all-female women’s organizations. Definitely write a letter. They need the feedback.

If you’ve got nothing better to do, you could just keep going as long as it isn’t a definite “no”, just to see what happens. As long as he understands you’re still just checking him out. Some people take a while to grow on you, especially if they’re different from what you’re already used to, but sometimes that’s what…

Yes, but something else got crossposted there this afternoon! Not sure how that happened.

They should make The Cuck a subblog of Jezebel.

You probably learned more.

You read the book where she went to school? I’m impressed. That’s the one that’s hardest to find. I had to read it in a reading room at a library because I couldn’t find a copy to borrow at any of the libraries in town (2 universities, multiple municipalities).

And now I’m remembering L. Frank Baum’s books, which were full of tomboys and girl power.

Also, the Little House books were published later, too. I have read girls’ books published at the time, and they’re not very adventurous: school girl books, Pollyanna, the Patty Fairfield books (though the Patty books look a little more unconventional, and one set of cousins is very sporty). And now I’m distracted…

I saw that. I think a lot of fairly conventional girls have no idea how normal it is to not be able to conform to sex role stereotypes. I don’t see Anne as a tomboy at all, but just a regular girl who wants to have friends and fit in. I mean, she wasn’t boating on the river, she was pretending to be the Lady of…

True, it was. I think she based them partly on her own experiences in the West as a child. But with adventures.

In Susannah at Boarding School (set in 1898-9), she and her friends giggle at the thought of having the vote. But she captures a murderer, finds gold and her missing father, lobbies for better field hockey uniforms, and saves some old growth trees, so she’s not that limited. Lady Charlotte tells her she needs to learn…

That’s first act stuff. She’s accepted by the end of the first act. I think she spends the rest of the first book accepting herself.

I analyzed the first book a while back and discovered that Anne’s arc is from being a wildly impractical poetic type (like her impractical dead parents) to sensible. Like, her arc is about learning how to accept her normality. I don’t know about you, but that’s not something I can get into, since I have no hope in…

Actually in Canada some Olympic women were given more support because they had better chances because of less competition from other countries. (Though I agree with your point that just having equal funding between the sexes gives women an advantage.)

Researchers have way more sophisticated arguments than this.

That’s not what the researchers are saying. Who’s being reactive, here?