I'm pretty sure that Chinese culture existed before Communism.

I think the fact that they're making up their ranks through human sacrifice might come back as the season goes on. The Fat One wasn't interested in being a monk—they needed him to have a backstory, a legitimate and material reason to want to stay head-ed and human rather than converting to the monks' order, in order…

I was actually about to comment on this exact thing. I hate pictures of bugs.

Well played. I understand now that your experience and anecdotal evidence refute everything we know about society and systemic injustice. I concede the point entirely.

Good for your mom. Badass!

Sorry, I loved him until I found out he was communicating all creepy-like with teenagers. Ethics fail.

Does it seem entirely coincidental to you that rich people are able to "absorb" much more during their their educations than poor people? Do you think it's because rich people are just more absorbent or because their educations are more easily absorbed?

I don't respond to Craigslist ads unless they have proper grammar and spelling, too. But don't kid yourself that it's not about class. Access to learning about proper grammar and spelling is almost entirely based on class. Unless you're foreign, of course.

This is why my sex life is so good. I have enormously high self esteem—I border on smug and arrogant, really—and my partner is so empathetic that he's like a Star Trek character. Or that one guy on Heroes, who was an empath hero, but I only watched the first season so I don't know if he turned into a bad guy, so my…

"I could never enjoy it because all I'm thinking about is her hating it."

Or, alternately, realizing on Sunday night that you have to go to the emergency room because of your raging UTI.

If hating blow jobs is selfish, then I'm...um, very selfish? I guess? I don't give blow jobs unless I'm in a very particular mood—it's really rare, especially now that I'm an old lady—and that's not a problem. The obsession with blow jobs is a recent phenomenon that as far as I can tell is largely cultural. (Obviously…

Sometimes, it would be worse. Like he could beat her and possibly kill her instead of "just" raping her, or he could decide that he didn't like her uppity, smart-mouth attitude, all telling-him-what-to-do-and-shit, and then use that as his legitimation for rape.

Who the fuck cares whether being gay is a choice or not? It's a stupid argument.

Stop being so thoughtful on the internet. You're confusing everybody.

I totally understand what this article was trying to do, but I also see how the author failed horribly.

"Your music taught me to look past what a person is on the outside, and look for the value within."

I would say that a person can't act like a sex object, they can only be objectified by others. Whether they're doing some internal objectification is entirely debatable, but I don't think that shit can be made apparent to outsiders.

But she was asked about the singers and their relationship to gay empowerment. I mean, pointing out that they don't wear pants seemed less about how they are sluts and more about how wearing pants is a lesbian thing to do. And I mean, it's obviously not, but I think she was aiming at pointing out how being entirely…

OH MY GOD. That first clip is one of the most painful things ever. Watching her lay out intelligent argument after intelligent argument, only to see him manipulate her and also be unbelievably stupid. This is when you realize that IQ and EQ are not the same—she is clearly smart, but (probably because she's 17 and…