While the Girl Scouts have launched some great, empowering, diverse programming over the last few years, it’s come at the cost of a lot of outdoor programs. Many local councils are actually “getting out of the camping business”, as a friend put it, and selling council-owned equipment as well as campgrounds, or…

here is my two cents nobody asked for: Not quite sure why the Unicorns can’t just form their own Girl Scout troop and do outdoor stuff with girls their own age. The whole point of these organizations is to develop skills and friendships among a gender-specific peer group. If you don’t want to participate according to…

Not nearly as funny as the original Star Wars screen test with Kevin Spacey.

For me, sex is just better when I know and trust someone.

Trainspotting is an actual hobby- the saddest hobby. In the film a couple of them stop and talk to a trainspotter in fact. It’s people who spend their free time sitting next to train tracks ‘spotting’ and noting the trains as they pass. They take down the train number, number of carriages, and time in a notebook and…

I would like to support the premise of this post in that this joke is going to play in the minds of conservative or sheltered minds a lot differently, and negatively, than it will in the minds of liberal and seasoned viewers. What did the writer intend? Based on the prominence of the actor playing as androgynous right…

When you were young, and dreaming of being a writer, did you ever imagine you’d actually become a professional shit-stirrer and outrage-monger who can’t be bothered by intellectual honesty or nuance?

I think the problem with the concept of ‘gender non-conforming’ for me is for that to work, we need to take on board that all people of a set gender act the same way, with the exception of those who define themselves as non-conforming. That’s at its heart a traditionalist point of view. It presupposes that what makes…

Although don’t get me wrong, I’m not trying to discount his experiences or his viewpoint, genderqueer as presented in the article just seems like a way to say “I don’t buy the construct of gender essentialist behaviour”. Which, okay? Neither do I, but I don’t see myself as gender queer.

So is your comment. I’d love to hear more about what you’re doing to help.

The most disturbing part of this (other than Sheen’s potential transmission of the infection to others) is the way it’s being reported. In 2015, why is being HIV positive different from having cancer, or Hepatitis C, or any other illness engendering compassion and empathy? Why is it considered a “gotcha” moment to out…

Is no one going to talk about this? https://medium.com/matter/on-gawk…

I was just about to say the same thing. The toaster woman is clearly insane but it’s pointless to offer gluten free bread if you aren’t going to have a separate toaster. I hate to be that person but..

I feel like suing over “haters gonna hate,” is pretty petty and ridiculous. It’s almost as ridiculous as trying to put a copyright on a very common and widely-used phrase like — I dunno — “this sick beat.”

I’m having a hard time feeling sympathy for this white teenage girl who trademarked “This Sick Beat,” especially since in context I get such bad second-hand embarrassment for her I immediately have to switch channels.

Well, among normal, decent people, spiking your friend’s drink suggests getting them extra drunk as a prank (you know, without raping them). Combined with that image, though, it suddenly looks much worse.

I don’t agree that fair isn’t achievable. And an adult person’s sexuality doesn’t need to be intertwined with a clinical description. His brain did not stop maturing at toddlerhood so it is not OK to use the shorthand of “like a toddler.” He participates in society and is around people his age, he has likely witnessed…

I... don’t think you know what curbstomping is. Merely being stepped upon while on the sidewalk doesn’t make the cut.

Also! It is possible for someone to appear to be somewhat functional yet still be in a coma. o.O