Ah, I ended up donating all but one of my Star Wars toys. Couldn't part with the jedi fighter from episode II because it's a pretty sweet space ship design, and I remember that I pretty much went to sleep with that thing parked by my pillow. I even modified it so my toys had a more pimped-out ride.

Hi-five for No Face Amidala! (Did you keep track of that mask? Because I know I threw it into some very far corner like the day I opened the package because UH NO.)

Right? I moved recently and in the process of sorting through my stuff found some really old art from that time. Some of it is pure gold. (And cats. Lots of cats).

High-five for Queen Amidala doll. Mine was a weird hybrid because she had the face painting of the Queen but dressed like one of the maids (with a REALLY creepy "mask" of another unpainted face to put over her face to make it look like she was the "maid" self that only succeeded in making her look like No Face). She…

Yeeep, all of my male classmates are wearing tight V-necks, and I happen to find collarbones and exposed necks to be extremely attractive, so I demand that all men should now wear baggy sweaters and scarves. So that, y'know, the distraction was out of my sight while I'm doing some important learning here.

I read the article and was like "Oh wow, I don't have an experience like that!" And then I remembered that oh wait, yes I do. Once when I was 13 and I was surrounded by a group of drunk older teenage boys on an empty street, and another time was one of three times I ever went to a club in my entire life. This giant…

You know what? I kind of wish he was. Because there was no fucking way he was getting out of this without a "guilty" verdict. It would've been a drawn-out spectacle, sure, but it would've inevitably lead to a whole lot of discussions on rape culture, male entitlement, and/or mental issues support in this country…

I hated word problems for two reasons: a) you had to spend more time to scour the words and find the actual numerical problem, which for this lazy ass was a huge annoyance and b) we usually had to write down more for word problems than simple numerical ones. Which, again, MORE OF MY TIME.

The closest thing I know to this is that running a data analysis of books ADULT humans buy tends to skew towards fiction for women (who buy 80% of all fiction books sold) and non-fiction for men.

Roses are red
Violets are blue
Your waitresses should show more nipple
Or I'll give you a one-star review

...?

I think you're giving Putin too much credit. Hitler at least made/hijacked a political movement, as deranged as he might have been. Putin is very much a figurehead for people who'd rather not be in that spotlight and rule comfortably from their [relative] anonymity. He just happened to have gotten off on good footing…

That joke doesn't actually apply here because the military base, with a high population of people who have been trained for and likely experienced combat, is probably the one place where that would have actually done some good.

If this actually happened, someone is going to lose a job. We had a guy who got fired for standing up for himself when some stupid bint started screeching at him that he was "just a worthless Starbucks barista who is never going to amount to anything" because he wouldn't give her the free drink she wanted.

... Bro. Look, I really appreciate that you're trying to be open-minded and I'm really, really glad that you're aware of the big picture and how fucking boned - not the good kind of boned - women are in our society.

I don't get much of that around here, but when I lived in Russia... I went for a jog ONCE. For ten minutes, before I high-tailed it home, after at least half a dozen unwanted sexual comments or actions.

I'd like to know where you live because I don't know a single woman who wishes that men would all "just die" or who takes their existence for granted. (I do know one dude though. He's gay. And he hates men and thinks they should all be rounded up and sent to camps for "forced re-education". Charming fellow.)

Eeeeeehhh, I kind of try to stay away from invoking the scary gay man because while tempting, it's... really homophobic. The reaction is also not (for most guys) coming from the same place - the scary gay man appears as a threat the image of their masculinity, not an actual physical threat to them, because it's just…

I find it interesting that they cast a pretty average-looking guy and a few actually quite attractive-looking women - AND still delivered the gross, dehumanizing experience.

Well. I'm pretty sure if you wanted to get yourself a nice dungeon-y BDSM rig, it would cost you way more than 6k. Or really nice fetish clothes, those could probably get up into high hundreds, low thousands. So, if you factor in things that don't necessarily go into orifices, yeah, I think you could easily spend 6k…

As a Canadian, I stopped caring. Like, really bub? Ya ain't got much to talk about. Not when your government shuts down over a hissy fit and you actually, seriously have politicians DEBATING whether women should be granted people-rights (namely, ones pertaining to the right to bodily autonomy).