So do you think she's lying about being coerced?

Everyone I know who was bullied when they were young has expressed—repeatedly—feelings of revulsion at the thought that their kid might one day be a bully. I know people who have said that they'd rather have their kids go through what they went through then put someone else through what they went through.

"Killing your own meat, or at least knowing where that killing is "locally sourced," seems less about getting closer to your food than getting closer to feeling like a member of a more savage ruling class from history."

It's like the War of 1812 all up in here!

How is he not in jail?

Hah. Well, yes, because that's how words work. Like, a phrase like "pro-life" means someone who is anti-abortion, anti-choice. And therefore everybody who is against abortion ("pro-life") is against abortion. See how that works?

Sorry, wrong. Men have always had a choice about whether or not they had to take care of the baby that their sexual partner conceived through them. If they didn't want to take care of that baby, they just didn't. Sometimes they killed the baby, sometimes they just ignored the mother and baby.

It's so cute how you think that having a full time job means having health insurance.

Wait is eating lots of ketchup a thing that Americans get mocked for doing? Because ketchup is straight up delicious and anyone who doesn't understand that is fucking crazy. And I'm American but will talk all day about how much America sucks. But ketchup does not suck.

Well I think it's funny when people criticize Americans for being petty and small minded and overly zealous with our symbols.

I'm sorry, but isn't taking photos with objects on your bum-shelf worthy of...something. Fascination maybe?

I think, as Alasdair said above, that Latin is a bad analogy because the use of Latin has never died entirely only to be resurrected. It's waned—dwindled, even—but it's use for formal records/mottos/whatever never actually stopped, only to be resurrected. It didn't need to get resurrected because it never died, is…

But we also have no reason to think that such behavior was radically different from that of the cave lions' evoluted descendants, right? Other than these fossils.

There are all kinds of cultural constructions. Like language! That's a big one. I like that one.

But she does know him as her father. It's not like she didn't know who he was, they got involved, and then in a surprise twist of fate realized, after the sexual relationship had begun, that he was her biological father. They knew they were related when the sex began.

Listen, I love Gayle Rubin, and always will, because "Traffic in Women" is one of the best things ever written, anywhere, always and forever. But "Thinking Sex" is very, very problematic.

Anti-Catholic articles on the internet: still not as bad as raping children!

Well played.

Geography? Why would people who study geography study Hegel? I mean, outside of because they might like to read Hegel. That seems crazy to me.

You can buy electric shockers at the store, too. People use them to train dogs.