Nazis also make for a great insert into all kinds of magical science stories because of their connections to research into the occult/other magically powerful stuff. A the wealth of information is available, and it grabs pretty much everybody's interest. Stuff just writes itself.

Actually, wasn't there an article on Jezebel just a few months ago, talking about how Taliban (or was it Al Qaeda?) started creating fake Facebook accounts of hotttt chixxx and friending soldiers to see they'd let slip some operational details to impress the pretty lady? (And it even worked a few times, like that one…

Hate to break it to ya, but male soldiers who are captured are subjected to sexual assault probably almost as frequently as female soldiers. Since, y'know, it's not about sex but about humiliation and conquest. They just kind of don't talk about it too much, but it's a pretty well-known fact among the units in the…

Yep! And the decline in global [sea] piracy caused and accelerated global climate change. They're both global, see? Totally fits.

I don't actually think that Coke bribed them per se.

Didn't the separate bathrooms thing arise as a joke at some posh party? Like, oh, how quaint, we have to ~seek out~ the appropriate toilet facility to use? Or is that just a myth?

I actually arrived to the same conclusion on my own. Honestly, I don't give a shit whether some bro out there thinks I'm "not attractive" because I'm not peppy and cheerful, but the simple truth is (despite insistently claiming otherwise) men (as well as any other women) are very, VERY good at reading body language…

It might not even necessarily be that she's black (though it probably doesn't help) but that her name is "unusual-looking", which stumps about 95% of North Americans. (White person with a "unusual-looking" surname here... Have not yet met anyone who didn't butcher it. I was known as "Ms. ...O___________o???" all…

I'd say more often than not their misogyny is motivated by the fact that they want to fuck them, actually.

I want to feel the annoyance other people have for Anne Hathaway's overabundant enthusiasm, but I see the joy her face and all I can honestly muster is to just feel happy for her. I know that winning-an-award-you-really-wanted feel too well (though obv. on a smaller scale heh).

I agree with you, except for the "sister or mother was a housewife" bit. In my experience, this arrangement can sometimes serve to make a man more egalitarian. My boyfriend's mother was a housewife by necessity - she needed to take care of her paraplegic elderly father, and when he died she was already out of the…

I just started to demand apologies if I feel that I deserve them.

She thinks she's drawing pretty women because she has been told, from birth, that an attractive woman is one that fits the definition of "attractive" for an average white, hetero dude in this day and age (especially if she's straight, because she's not actively assessing her own attraction to the female body). That…

To be fair, that one's pretty gross too - not necessarily with the physical details this time, but with the perps' public display of incredibly horrendous attitude. I doubt it would've gotten so much attention had the little shits not tried to turn it into impromptu stand-up comedy.

Eh. My name is kinda cool and unique, but over on this side of the giant pond, nobody fucking knows how to pronounce it because it violates the basic rules of English grammar. I've been "Ms. ...... o______O"?!?!?!" for over a decade now. If I marry my current boyfriend, I'm taking his cool Irish surname. At least…

Whoops, correction - the story about Olga is officially translated into English as "The Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors", or "The Kingdom of False Mirrors", and the name of the character is changed to "Ellen" (there's actually a good reason for it).

No problem! I recently went through my old book-and-movie pile from my childhood and found my dusty Alisa novels and remembered why I loved them so much. Needless to say, they went straight into the hands of my baby sister, who is currently devouring those few novels I had. I need to get my hands on Kingdom Behind the…

That thing about "boys" not going to "girl" movies is entirely socially conditioned.

Mostly prefer the kind of porn that has at least one dude, but I like well-written lesbian things too (I never really look for them though, because... there is a looooot of garbage to sift through). Thanks for the recommendation!

In the BDSM scene, about 15% of women identify as true dominants (and a buuuunch more identify as switches), and about 7-20% of men (depending on how you count) are submissive.