How can you complain about receiving wisdom from Cookie Monster? He is a philosopher of the first rank.

To be honest, his speech was pretty bland, but at least I got to watch Cookie Monster eat a UCLA-labeled cookie.

My commencement speaker was the CEO of Sesame Workshop and... the Cookie Monster.

The fingertip length standard is flawed for many of us. For example: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturega…

My mom was the youth group coordinator at our church when I was a teenager. Some of the kids in the group sang at the mass and one of them, who had a different sense of style, wore long black gloves. There was a big meeting held with the parish council and my mom and they said that they wanted my mom to do something…

"You know what's funny? I flirt with guys all the time. And I mean the great looking ones, the really high-caliber studs? They flirt right back, no problem. Because they know their status will never be questioned."

Because that's a reductionist, evo-psych nonsense premise. Eugenics hasn't been cool for like a century now.

Yeah, I don't think this is commentary on forcing yourself to be attracted to someone who you're not attracted to. It's about letting societal pressure bully you out of being attracted to someone who you ARE attracted to.

EXACTLY. This is the thing that the mens crying "BUT YOU CAN'T DICTATE WHO I'M ATTRACTED TO" seem to not get, about this subject and about this clip.

Individually, no, but when it represents a cultural way of looking at bodies and desirability, yes. Well, not shamed, but unpacked. I do think you're highlighting something really salient that gets overlooked — the idea that we all think, hey, our preferences are our preferences, we like what we like. But preferences…

He's serving total Cosby face.

Oh my God, I love this man.

I think the frustration in trying to draw the line of sexual agency is the issues of looking at the individual vs. the group. As in, I as an individual might act provocative because I get a sense of freedom in expressing my sexuality, but if you're talking about female sexual behavior as a whole there is no doubt that…

People really talk about film stars. They see them at the cinema. Britons; they're (English speaking) people too!

Not "trying to teach women to limit their agency" but to move forward from a male-defined sexiness that older feminists see as a step backwards. Second-wave feminists wanted to move away from rigid gender types and, to a certain extent, away from our whole cultural definition of romance and marriage.

In my experience, men have a sick fascination with lesbians. I've gotten a lot of the "can I watch?" type of bullshit as well as being told I don't look like a lesbian, I'm too pretty to be a lesbian, wouldn't I like to just try it, blah blah blah. I don't fit "lesbian" in their heads, but once I've convinced them…

I wish y'all would stop saying this. Yes, this guy is preoccupied with gay men. But I gaurantee you that he doesn't like lesbians either. He almost certainly thinks that women don't have sexual desires, hence lesbians don't exist. So we're invisible (and let's be honest, that's what you mean when you say this guy is…

What NORMAL people do when an online order doesn't go through: