I wish she could too! I like to hope that one day she will come to terms with it all, but I don't think that will happen until she's comfortable in a safe-feeling, steady relationship.

"Hey baby, wanna take a queerplunge in my pussyvan? This wonder wench will make you jirble til you soda-squirt like a California widow. Zafty?"

THAT CAT IS MY CHILD!!!!!!!

E.L. James' failsafe erotica tips:

My sis has been repeatedly harassed for her breasts since 5th grade. After years of it she is so hyper-modest and defensive, nervous around most men, and so conflicted about sexual relationships that I wish she would get counseling. She's been objectified on a regular basis in ways I never have, as a small breasted…

Aside from my endlessly re-read books? I'd have to say my most treasured possession as a kid was my stuffed bunny Isabel, which my dad bought for me when my big sis went off to kindergarten so I wouldn't feel lonely.

Most definitely — racism is never confined to purely white culture vs. others; I hope I didn't give the impression in my comment that that was my belief. I was mainly concerned with the idea of why we see white culture appropriating other cultural details, so that was what I focused on.

I kind of like the idea of using it with a snooty French pronunciation.

More contraception of all kinds, for everyone!

Sometimes I think we have a problem with cultural appropriation because of the fact that in cases of cultural appropriation, most often it is a white person "putting on" the accoutrements, or skin coloring, or clothing, or whatever, of another culture — treating it as a costume, in a way. But how often do we see…

No, see, Sarah Palin is just standing up for her tradition of inserting a Christian figure into a pagan winter solstice celebration in order to create a more unified religious populace! It's not arbitrary — it's TRADITION! Right?

Hear hear! There is possibly nothing better on a hot Texas afternoon than an icy fountain Pepsi.... Oh, so good.

Yeah... kind of felt like an exhausting text-fight. Just... no one comes out of it looking good.

Really? Can you not-introduce me to Nikolaj Coster-Waldau? Because I'd be ignored by him anytime.

Good lord. People just... make.. no.. sense.

I hope you're right!

Yeah, there's of course a ton more to it, but last night I was so emotionally drained I just didn't have the motivation or energy to go into it all again. Even now I'm pretty exhausted — the fight continued this morning and I just don't know what to do. The only thing I can think to do is to keep working, keep doing…

I am with you!

Just had an incredibly stressful fight with my significant other, again. About the same thing we've been fighting about (hint: it's a money issue). And it'll be resolved in 3 weeks after over a year of financial struggle, but apparently that's not good enough, and my wishful projections in the past that were proved…

You. Are. The. Best.