Years ago, when I was a freshman in college, I asked a friend from high school to stop using "cocksucker" as in insult because it's homophobic and misogynistic and anti-sex, and she went off on me about how I was no fun anymore and was suddenly such a fucking ACTIVIST.

It's not hurting me to think that diddling next to your sister is not okay. My opinion about that has nothing to do with sexual regression. There's this thing called boundaries where you're okay with certain things and you're not okay with certain things and this happens to be one of them. That doesn't mean that I'm…

Stuff like this makes me realize I am the opposite of PUNK ROCK. I'm like a trio consisting of a triangle, xylophone, and penny whistle, being played by a bunny, an otter and a manatee.

I think an entire thesis could be written on internalized misogyny in heterosexual women from this alone. It's desperately sad and really speaks to how much we are raised and encouraged to hate ourselves and each other. So toxic.

Sigh. Yes. As a gay man, I was pretty excited about YAOI getting translated into English... until I read them. There are some good stuff but you have to learn which authors to follow (Fumi Yoshinaga and Yugi Yamada are pretty consistently great). Otherwise, you'll find a lot of rape culture fantasies (stuff where one…

Yeah I am still perpetually torn on Korrasami. On the one hand: Yay! Let's get some LGBTQ characters in children's television/adult television that isn't strictly about sex. On the other hand: Can't we get a really strong meaningful female friendship on any television show? Can't a girl be a main character who…

I literally would have argued up until 3 seconds ago that the incest fic is probably enabled by the knowledge that the actors aren't really related/characters are fictional so there is no real incest possible but then the commenter above mention the Vlogbrothers real-people incest fanfiction and now I have to go for a…

It almost reminds me of the some Greco-Roman, particularly Plato's I believe, ideas of purest forms of love attraction with heterosexual relationships being an obligation but male/male homosexual/romantic relationships being elevated above all others. It is super creepy and in many ways can be a conservative view of…

I have a Ph.D. in Computer Science but I'm completely incapable of understanding or enjoy "art." I must be really stupid.

But see...women don't give a shit about men's watches. Not to be rude, I'm sure that's a kickass watch. But it seems to me everything men do to look nice is still rather dull, and more often done for the attention of other men. Like...men no longer fight each other (well, usually lol) so they show off to each other…

See what you did, Republicans? Lack of funding for science education is hurting small business now.

Okay, I've heard about the salt water wash (and it sounds horrifying.)

The difference is that you've worn shoes your whole life. Kenyans, on the other hand, grow up in remote, hilly regions far from the realm of men. Being a simple folk - more concerned with the planting of crops and brewing of ails than the world of politics and magic - Kenyans spend most of their time outside. Over…

oh look......... shoes!

There was a brief period of time where I fixated (I have OCD) on getting a pair of these.

The answer is simple....because they are poor. That is the real reason. I don't mean that to be cruel, but that is the honest answer. However, running has proven to be a way out of poverty for a some Kenyans. So running in popular in Kenya. They did some genetic studies a while back to see if Kenyans were better…

As a Kenyan and as a runner, I can comfortably call bullshit on this. 30 years ago, young poor kids in the rural areas perhaps. But TODAY in high school track and the elite army and police teams (where most Kenyan elite runners come from) do not run barefoot, they have Nike and Adidas/Asics etc deals. And they win…

I actually appreciate stuff like this. I would much rather someone wear these and announce up front that they are a douchebag, as opposed to me having to guess and possibly talk to them.

It never fails to depress me, at how many weddings are just pageants, and no one's really thinking about the vows they make. In a couple of years, they show themselves for what they are or were— badly put-on plays. But the worst is the broken vows, how people will take them as just lines to say when they're told to…

I agree with Skeve. Of course you never consider divorce an option. You love them until you don't anymore. And maybe you still care, but it's just not enough. That happened to me. My husband met his best friend, who was a highly-fuctioning alcoholic, at work one day. He was pre-disposed to alcoholism thanks to his…