there’s this [30+] chick my ex is friends with and she always posts “today’s lewk” to instagram. *barf*

Mayim Balik is too sex-skeptical to get anything less than the side eye from Jez. (I’m with her!)

I beg to differ... being a human is a constant challenge, and wherever there are males and females with corresponding needs and urges, shit gets stupid and complicated.

Agreed... sorry, I was more like adding onto your comment (and the whole discussion) - not arguing against it. I hate this discussion format.

It would be helpful to acknowledge how both can be “right”(ish) since we’re talking about a subjective concept. When I was in school, I wrote a paper about how Shakira was being skimpily dressed and dancing sexily in a like a totally feminist way compared to, say Britney, or whoever. But I think a person could viably…

People are so crazy... my co-worker, when I told her I saw a news item about a face transplant, was like “Oh, I should take myself off being a donor.” She was totally horrified that her face could get donated, even though she’d be fucking dead and someone would have their life massively improved. I think donating…

There so much I miss about the old internet discussion formats. Bulletin board style conversations, where it was easy to follow all the action, even with multiple people talking at each other. I hate this default grey shit, where the thing that should be reserved for true trolls is the default mode and the forever…

I don’t even think it’s that outdated - I would just say that in a modern context it could be gender swapped in any iteration. I am all for analyzing supposedly innocuous pop culture, and I think it’s useful to show that you can find a sinister read, but I hate it when we treat critical interpretation as objective…

According to another article comment section where this topic came up, kinja does not lend itself well to captioning pictures, which is like totally what you’d expect from a blogging platform. And while we’re splitting hairs, a photo credit is for the source of the photo/photographer, not the subject ; )

This is who I clicked here to talk about. I’ve only seen each of these garbage films once, unlike hudreds of times for each original, so I don’t have an ecyclopedic knowledge... but my general impression, as a person who had many times imagined the backstory, is that this backstory just tried way to fucking hard. I…

Well, it’s probably that the vast majority of the producers in this very respectable line of work are actually quite disgusting too, and not motivated by feelings of feminism or well thought out academic sex positive philosophy. This post is very cute, talking about the ideal, where everyone gets to choose what…

Yes - worker safety. I work in insurance, so it’s an issue near and dear to me... When I hear a “pro sex worker” friend (who, of course, is one) argue for why the industry is fine with self-regulating, and porn performers don’t need no condoms (for example), it’s just like “well, why is this industry exceptional?” If…

Everybody bought the sex positive choice shit so hard they are totally shocked that a woman could be disrespected or hurt in such a safe professional space as a porn shoot.

I wanted to make a similar comment. It always strikes me when women vehementaly defend some of the stupider trappings of femininity and come up with some verbal gymnastics to explain how it’s not only valid because it’s their choice (which is valid enough...), it’s actually feminist BECAUSE they choose it.... it just…

They will pay whatever is required by work comp law in the state (apparently $2000 for funeral, based on my scientific google research, plus some portion of future wages they determine). The “won’t pay” thing seems to be a hasty conclusion lept to by the internets.

Before leaping to the conclusion that “Waffle House won’t,” this is a compensable “injury” under workers comp, and they probably just haven’t paid yet, since it just happened. Brief googling tells me that this includes up to $2000 funeral expenses, a very generous (jk) immediate payment of $250, and payment of a…

That too, a little bit. I was trying to be down with the creative community.

I’m a just ok adult artist, but I was a pretty precocious child artist too. I believe this is possible for a five year old. Recently I’ve drawn with my five yr old nephew, and he did some very impressive stuff by trying to imitate me (drawing ninja turtles). Then he beats himself up for not being perfect, which I end…

Totally tricky. So there probably need to be some kind of rule changes. It just seems so crazy when you compare it to other crimes. Like sometimes a person gets arrested for something because a cop was around at the time (this guy I know... he broke a stick off a tree to get something down of a roof in a public…

We can only hope that one day in the future our society will not leave it up to victims to be able to pursue or rescind assault charges after reporting them and having abundand evidence documented.