I used to have a store-bought version of one of these that went in a wine bottle (hokey-Italian-restaurant style)—and it was terrifying. I lit it once and could not shake the feeling that a fiery death was on the horizon. And that candle/molotov cocktail do-dad was made by, like, professionals. I can't imagine a…

It sounds like it's based on community ethos—because I, too, went to public school in Texas, and all of those things (long hair on boys, hair dyed "unnatural" colors on either sex, mohawks, and on and on) were against dress code. The reasoning they always gave was that those styles were ~distracting~. Much like…

Jesus Christ. That's seriously beautiful.

They give her literally nothing to work with—it makes me so mad. I honestly have no idea whether she's funny or not.

I don't think it's about her actions (who she will or won't have sex with) so much as it's about her identity. When you have something like that that you hold on to and keep secret for years, it pushes you away from the people you love. If you want to give people a chance to love you, you have to give them a chance…

Yeah, I'm in my mid-thirties, and she sounded pretty bitter to me too. I mean, it's definitely true that the older you get, the more clarity you have about your own youth and a lot of the experiences that young people in general go through. But, I've definitely learned things from people younger than me. I have…

Well... they're TexMex. They're considered Texas or border-style Mexican food. True, they were first developed in Texas—but by Mexican ranch hands. And, seriously, everyone seems to forget that Texas used to be part of Mexico. There are large swaths of the state (including the area in which fajitas were first…

You are clearly speaking from an outside perspective. I've seen exactly zero outrage over Common Core. And that's speaking as someone who works on the state tests in Texas. Common Core isn't really a concern of ours because Texas's testing standards are considered substantially higher than CC. The whole Creationist…

You realize that every single statistician of note predicts that Texas will be a blue state within 10 years or so, right? And that Texas has the second greatest number of electoral votes (and members of the house) of any state? Texas isn't a loss. And it's more than worth fighting for.

I think it's the tone that you're misreading. "Meat curtains" is an inherently insulting way to talk about labia. The author doesn't use that sort of qualitative language except to say that too much penis can be painful (which is true—so, it's not really a value judgment, just something that anyone who's had a penis…

I really didn't think they were critiquing the different penises—just describing them. I think it was a "perfect" dick in the sense that it was a stereotypically perfect dick—just like there's an idea of stereotypically perfect breasts. It doesn't mean there's actually a perfect dick-type. I, personally, was more…

Well, there are different jurisdictions for all those different police forces. It's confusing (even to Americans), but it generally isn't really that problematic.

From what I've read, his final wound—to the top of his head—is a common injury in battle. It comes from the person doubling over or beginning to fall from the other gunshot wounds before the shooter stops shooting. It's therefore neither as simple as "surrender" or "charge."

When people talk about police militarization it's only tangentially related to police racism. Militarization is specifically about the use of military-grade arms—and the fact that the police A) simply have no need to police the citizens of this country as if they were a hostile, well-armed opposition force; and B)…

They released a ton of info during the Stubenville investigation that turned out to be wrong.

Fitness is a big part of it. And good teeth and skin. Generally, a dude with decent skin and decent teeth who's in good shape will be fairly attractive either with or without hair.

YES. Between watching him House of Cards and falling in love with Skinner in the X-Files, I'm totally into bald dudes lately. Hot bald dudes.

I mean, yes—I've read a fair amount of fanfic with sex that confused me. Like, wait—how did her hand get over there? And how are his balls slapping that? How long is that man's scrotum? Call a doctor! But, I've also read some of the best sex scenes I've ever read anywhere in fanfic. So, I really hate it when…

I think it would be okay if y'all are having a conversation about your desire levels/sexual frequency—she might even appreciate it. It can be weird being responsible for the birth control in a relationship, she might not want to change it out of a fear of disrupting y'all's routine. Now, I wouldn't just drop it on…

I really don't think that their hair matters, here. The song is challenging how men in their industry represent "country girls"—how they stick them in impractical, skin-baring clothes, and leave them to be anonymous props riding shotgun. Just because these women fit with the dominant idea of beauty in their industry…