Yeah that made me side-eye a little too. I mean, I knew OF the concept as a wee teen, but I never used it in a sentence ("beta" more so than "alpha" - "alpha" might have occasionally been used in the ubiquitous "alpha-male"), and having that come from a housewife... Not impossible, but really fucking weird.

I think the best apology is the kind that admits to the wrong-doing, explains why it was wrong, and makes no excuses OR promises.

Erm.... I think you're confusing matrilineal societies and matriarchal societies. Many Native American societies were matrilineal, but they were definitely NOT matriarchal. (Matrilineal arrangements are also very common among horticultural societies). Just because a society is matrilineal does not mean that the social…

Maybe I'm weird, but I like to separate my books into categories: stuff I read for the plot/characters, and stuff I read for the sex.

Do you mind if I ask you a question? I'm thinking of making the switch but kind of worried it would be one of those things I spend money on and never use.... Is it messy to remove?

I would've looked at him square in the eye and told him that if he ever wanted to have sex with women, he'd better grow up really fucking quickly because if he thinks that a box of new tampons is gross, he'll probably end up lopping off his dick if it ever went near a vagina. Since, y'know, that's where the blood…

I've fought (= raised voices and walked away without discussing the issue as it came up) twice with my boyfriend of five years. The rest of the time, one of us would usually calmly say something like "Hey, what you just did made me want to punch you. And then I thought 'that's a really dumb thing to want to do.' Let's…

It's a very Russian attitude. There's even a saying for it, which literally translates to "Everyone is a goat and I'm D'Artagnan" and means "everyone else is an asshole and I'm perfect".

I actually don't find that weird at all. I've travelled to Ukraine many times and met a lot of really kind people there. One family took me in to their home and damn near adopted me while I was there as if I was their child coming back from studying abroad (I was travelling on my Russian documents, FYI, so how's that…

Yeah, I had something similar - I had four illnesses in a row after I stressed my immune system by international travel and a horrible sunburn, and all I had to do was go in, show my massively red and inflamed eye to the manager and he was just like "yep, go home, please don't come back until you look like a human…

GIMME. This shirt. I want it. Now.

No, actually. The whole point is absolute trust. When I tie up the boytoy, it's all about the fact that he knows that after he's tied up I can literally do anything I want to him and there would be nothing he could do about it, but that I will not overstep our boundaries.

I own the celebrity crushes in this relationship. I have a new one every few months because I get bored. Boyf is kind enough to indulge in it with me and go watch movies/TV shows/play games with the new guy or the occasional lady (honestly don't see a big diff between crushing on a character and crushing on a…

My mother used to date this man when I was little. He raised me since my mother started dating him when I was a few months old until I was 7 (my mother was a career woman working up the corporate ladder; he was a graduate student). To this day, he's the only man I call "daddy". I haven't seen him for 16 years now; my…

That she's a woman doing physical activity that directly strengthens her body and makes her able to fend for herself physically. I was heckled and harassed when I dared to try jogging on the streets in Russia (I have family there). For the same reason - women who are seen in public engaging in any sort of physically…

The problem is that games that do feature objectification do not engage with in in any meaningful context (for the most part. I haven't played Bioshock Infinite, so I dunno whether the main character "grows out" of his "Biblical beliefs" or if he maintains his stance that selling women is gross. From what I've heard…

I agree, actually.

FYI I am educated in STEM with a few years of work in my field (biochemistry, currently working with a lab analyzing arctic bacteria isolates for medical and industrial applications). Humanities and Arts are not useless. They hold our civilization together, and they have have the task of documenting and maintaining…

Because it's a scientific term which is most often used as a descriptor rather than a proper noun (e.g. "female humans" or "we have conducted a study of human social interactions and analyzed for patterns in female and male behaviour"). It's needlessly dehumanizing and de-personifying in non-scientific context - and…

It's like this in a lot of "male-dominated" hobbies. Oh, you only watch/read action/comics/sci-fi movies/books because the dude is hot. I spend money just like them, what fucking right do they have to police why I do or do not participate in some activity? Especially when I don't see anyone accusing the dudes of "not…