But why does the categaory 'man' become meaningless is someone can decide whether or not to group him/herself into that category? I don't understand you're reasoning here. I mean, a pre-op transgender man, is that not a man? When is he a man, as soon as there is a penis? He may physically be woman, but feel like a…

Exactly! The idea that trashing someone's house comes with consequenses is apparently completely foreign to thise people. And something to contact the media over! O_O

Teehee, all of a sudden I get a teenage-me vibe yelling Mooo-oom. You cramping ma style! :P I hope she's not too tired of fighting to back me up at least a little. :)

Ugh this. My mom is very liberal en feminist most of the time, but when occasionally something OUTRAGEOUS happens and I am consequently outraged (or irritated or emotionally involved somehow) she says; what are you getting all wound up over, it's not like you can do anything about it. Maybe not, but not getting…

Age: 23

The anwser should ofcourse be: How do you do? (with or without emphasis.) :)

Sure, that term should ring a few bells at least, and I do think people should be educated about colonization and all the problems it caused. I am Dutch, and thankfully I did learn about that in school, so Suriname, Indonesia and the Caribean islands, but I wasn't taught anything about Canada or the US. So whatever I…

Thank you! English major here, though I ended up mostly writing about linguistics more than literature while in college, but the snark about humanities... Jeesh! You don't need to have studied anything to have a certain job/career (this goes more for some jobs than others, obviously). My bf studied car/truck…

I think the question mostly comes from the name: aboriginal people is used to describe native Australians and not very commonly to describe Native Americans or Canadians.

Me and my bf always sleep like that, he can't sleep on his other side, and we both want to stuff a blanket between our legs because of sweaty stickiness in the summer. ^_^

I'm with you on that, I've had periods with no sex and after a 'weaning' period I'd have little desire to have sex again, then I'd have sex again, and all of the sudden I want ALL TEH SEX! :P This was very frustrating when I had this on-off-again boyfriend, we wouldn't be seperated long enough for the not caring to…

I read the 'backwards' comment that many people who are privilliged would think of these women as ignorant or backwards, while they have a lot of knowledge and are, as the autor describes very open about STIs etc. That said, I agree with you on the othering of (former/black) inmates.

It really is very simple to me, maybe because I live in a 'socialist' country, but I assume that office hours end after 5-6 pm. Working overtime is rare, and you'd better get payed a helluva lot extra for it too. And somehow, weirdly, work still gets done. I can't find the specific study I read, but I did find some…

You say you allow for the exceptions, but my point is that tons of people do live with their parents, there are so many different reasons for it. These people are not exceptions anymore, if so many people do it. I'm not just talking about taking care of elderly parents (that's not the norm in my country), I mean all…

There are a shitload of circumstances that make people live with their parents, not just recovery from surgery, but money problems (really? In this economy?) on the parent's OR the child's side, a parent who needs 24-hour care but doesn't have the cashfor a live-in nurse, a child/parent who is going through a…

Besties 4 life!!1! :P Sorry, I get over-excited easily. :)

Exactly what I was thinking! There are so many things that could go wrong with your feet, no need to help that along.

Oh man, bedbugs bring me back to my student years. :P I lived in this teeny tiny room, in a house with 20 other students. One of them goes on holiday and comes back, giving everyone (okay, not everyone) bedbugs. Sure they're annoying as shit, but the worst thing they'll do is bite, it'll itch, and that's basically it…

I remember a Dutch commercial from a few years back, where the voiceover said stuff like, "you can go bungeejumping, parachuting, diving! Or... not." While on screen a woman was watching a movie and munching on some popcorn. :P

Thanks, I'll google my ass off tonight. :P