I’ve had 3 teachers that gave us “finite exclamation points” in class. The theory was that they’re meant to denote excitement, and the more you use, the less they mean. These tended to be the same professors who didn’t allow the word “like”.

As a 26-year-old who’s just barely starting to accept lower grammatical standards for texts (and only because actual writers I know apparently care less than I do), I think it has as much to do with education/personality as with age. Some of us are just more neurotic about language.

And it’s also something you could say about every single man in this industry from time to time. I don’t care who the guy is, somewhere there are ten girls with the same stories about him, possibly true, possibly not, probably somewhere in the middle.

That honestly made me wonder whether he’s also the sort of asshole who thinks you can’t rape prostitutes/doesn’t believe in marital rape.

Respect for stay-at-home mothers has been poisoned by a toxic combination of the village elders’ war on the traditional family and radical feminism’s misogynistic crusade to make working outside the home the only marker of social value and self-respect.

The radical feminists misogynists are stealing them in the middle of the night. No one knows what happens to them after that, but my guess is that they’re turning them gay before releasing them back into society, to further cripple traditional family values.

Also, if you really want to make something from pies that is cold, why wouldn’t you just use pies that are meant to be served cold? There’s French Silk, key lime, lemon meringue... They’d be disgusting combined, but at least it wouldn’t be as much of an abomination as deliberately serving cold cherry pie!

Backstory: Boyfriend had moved to Japan for work, I was finishing up school and re-watching Sailor Moon to keep from moping.

Well, please let me know, I’m always interested in sexuality studies. I’m familiar with some on the negative impact of porn addiction, but that’s distinct from typical porn consumption, and closer to the negative impacts of addiction generally.

Honestly, I’ve wondered for a while whether they have an open relationship. She just seems so chill about all the scandals, and he clearly has had other partners but just as clearly respects her, and the most likely explanation to me is that they’re ok with it.

I agree, rape porn isn’t progressive and empowering (though some porn can be), but that doesn’t mean it’s harmful. It’s partially a reflection of rape culture, but it’s only a symptom, the rape culture is what we should really be dealing with.

A lifetime of cultural conditioning to be agreeable, supportive, and to not fall into the “nagging wife” stereotype?

So, I get that it’s tempting to laugh at the poor rich people with their nanny and their maid, but why are we mainly bringing those up as reasons she shouldn’t complain?

Genuinely curious, how do we know all porn is bad for women? Are there psychological/sociological studies that find this? The only data I’m familiar with is that there’s a reverse correlation between porn consumption and rape, though of course correlation=/= causality.

I have difficulty imagining actual ambiguity about whether you want to avoid pregnancy.

You won’t believe this, but women tend to have friends who are also women. And we talk to each other about our sex lives. Here’s how many women I’ve met who really dig the idea of rape and find it a thrill: 0.

No offense, but what you think isn’t really relevant because we have actual psychological data on this subject, the research of which was conducted and written and published by both women and men, many of whom are also feminists.

Obviously I have no idea of the thought process behind the original poster, but I’d guess she googled the study and kept trying links until she got a full copy. Google links directly to the PDFs, so it’s unlikely she navigated to it from within the site. If that’s the case, then literally the only indication is the…

To be clear, no one’s defending Nazis. But it’s important to remember that this website is not the source for this article, the source is a 2008 Journal of Sex Research. Calling a hosting website the “source” would be like calling a library a source.

Honestly I’m not an expert in Native American culture, but offhand I’d guess you’re fine?