Ain't that just male privilege for you – even your orgasm is really all about him. That shit drives me crazy. What IS amazing though, are the men who really want to learn what pleases you (and they do exist) because they have empathy and it's hot and it makes them feel awesome that you feel awesome. Note to the…

Love this. I need to work on my curation skills.

I've had this conversation with so many friends; I'm so tired of people in general and men specifically conflating female desire to keep a good partner around with some emotionally possessive/ marriage-crazed shiz. It is not necessarily emotional clinginess or desire for commitment. When I find someone who can get me…

Wait, is that shirt a real thing? That is so amazingly nerdy! Wants it!

I posted Sven, too. Lance was my bf after he died, oh the moody rebels. My older sister took Keith and I was fine with that – they were bossy enough for each other.

Ashitaka from Princess Mononoke. Strong, sensitive, feminist badass. Great outfits.

My first childhood media crushes were on Lance and Sven from Voltron. Even back then I had a thing for hipsters obsessed with their hair. Sheesh.

Addenda:

I commented on this on the thread about her, but a lot of people who were actually part-native were told they were Cherokee, instead of their actual heritage, because the Cherokee were considered to be more 'civilized' (the syllabary, constitution, etc) and thus, more palatable to white folks. Combine that with a lot…

RAAAAGE. This sexy squaw garbage. I mean, the entire Halloween-to-Thanksgiving season should come with a trigger warning if you're native or part. I showed up to a friend's thanksgiving where another friend had thought it would be cute to have everyone make grade-school "pilgrim and indian" headdresses. They were not…

Ahem, cultural appropriators need to acquire their redface somewhere.

Sigh. The few, the proud, the verifiably part-Cherokee. I hate being a punchline.

Unfortunately, that wouldn't solve much. I don't doubt that Kansas is whitey-white and full of racist dipshits but so is the rest of the country, and frankly the rest of the white-dominated world. Zadie Smith's most recent novel about a group of friends from a council estate in North London has a character who changes…

This is a thing everywhere in the Euro post-colonial world – it's a subplot of Zadie Smith's most recent novel. One of the main characters changes her name from Keisha to Natalie to get ahead in life and leave her lower-class and "too black" upbringing behind.

Yes. Same if she were dressed as Tiger Lily. Would it be offensive if she dressed up as one of the characters from Song of the South?

Er, I still think it fails. The Pocahontas story was largely ginned up to make the white invasion of North America seem inevitable, and something that the "good" natives accepted. Unless you're going to do serious research about how a Mattaponi woman would have dressed in that period, or you're going to go in the…

Lots of people who actually have some native ancestry were told they were part Cherokee, instead of their actual heritage, because Cherokees are the most prominent of the five "civilized" tribes that were relocated to Oklahoma. Since they have their own system of writing, etc. the Cherokee were slightly more palatable…

Of course they are :\ These people all think they're unique snowflakes floating in a void, but actually, they're just like everyone else in this weird thing called *society* that surrounds and supports them.

Oh ok, so if you get sick it's all your fault? I get so freaked out when nutjob hippie starts to go full circle into neoliberal tea partier.

Working on it. I've abandoned all pretense of niceness with people I know who start spouting that ish. There is no conspiracy behind vaccines – pharma companies don't make any money on them. Think how much more money they'd make if polio were an issue now instead of 100 years ago. I think the main issue is that we've…