Strange that you see the glass as so half empty. My ex-wife (Japanese) and I raised own son, mostly in Japan, but partly in New York and Boston. He is bilingual and reads novels in both languages for pleasure (which for me is a sort of litmus test for true multilingualism). Is he as "fluent" in Japanese cultural as…
MattThorn
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What you said. (I raised a biracial/bicultural/bilingual child and am quite happily married to a person of a different race/culture/first language/religious heritage.)
Thanks for clarifying. I find that most feminists everywhere do a pretty good of wrapping their heads around stories once they are provided with enough background info. We all try to interpret things with the limited palette we have at our disposal and make mistakes in the process. Still, it's good to keep that in…
I live in Japan and when I heard about Chubbiness, the first thing I thought was, "North Americans and Europeans wouldn't consider any of these women chubby." Yeah, it's a gimmicky idol group, but as gimmicks go, it's a fairly welcome one, I think. At the very least it's an opener for conversations both within Japan…
Thank you for saying this. I'm a feminist who has lived in Japan for 18 years starting back in 1985 when Japan was saying it was the "age of women." I have known many Japanese feminists of many stripes over three decades and am proud to call them friends, and mike2k's comment pissed me off.
You know, I just realized that the reasons you gave for disliking oral were the very reasons I used to hate receiving oral. That seems to have changed since I met my wife. There's no pressure to orgasm, we just do it while it feels good and switch to something else when it gets boring. That said, my wife is not overly…
Yes! This! I hate that everyone, including these asshats (pun intended), calls those stupid trilbies "fedoras." It's given a bad name to real fedoras. I wear a black, wool fedora in the winter to keep my head warm outdoors (never indoors!), and a Panama hat in the summer to keep the sun out of my eyes (again, never…
The power of socialization is scary. Anyone who is by nature sexually attracted to women should be aroused by the smell of a healthy vagina that hasn't been washed in a day. And yet straight men (and I'm guessing some lesbians) are raised "buried in shame," as Louisa puts it, and their socialization actual negates…
You shouldn't assume that it is "considerate" to cleanse your genitals before sex. People who are naturally attracted to women should be naturally aroused by the smell of a healthy vagina that hasn't been washed in, say, 16 hours or so. If the person is turned off by that smell, I think that, as Louisa says, it means…
Hey, if I, a white genderqueer lesbian in a man's body, can teach a course on "Women and Manga" (in Japan, to Japanese students, in Japanese), then Allred can surely teach a course on "Politicizing Beyoncé."
I got as far as "pocket of pus" and stopped.
Hey. It's a SERIOUS problem in Utah. They are losing the Great War!
Melissa Harris-Perry is a babe. That is all.
Interesting. I tried it and got "autistic," "depressed," "bipolar," "adhd," "on drugs," "gifted," "hyperactive, "ready for kindergarten." Then I had a thought and opened another browser and logged out of Google. This time I got "gay," "autistic," "gay quiz," "bipolar."
Very well put. And I'm so sorry about your abuse.
Precisely. Thank you. I saw another commenter say that "most politeness in this world is fake and contrived." It's all right for teenagers to think that way, but i you're thinking that way beyond the age of thirty, you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what is going on. It seems to me that Americans in particular…