That doesn't even count as weird - everyone, male, female, in between, everyone is turned on by David Bowie in Labyrinth. It's, like, a fundamental truth of the universe. Water is wet, grass is green, and Jareth the Goblin King makes people feel funny things in the pants.

Constitutional law.

Yeah, that stuff's fucking scary. Even my literally abusive ex never tried to insist that I could not leave the house without first reporting to him exactly where I was going and what I was doing.

Speaking as a wheelchair user, the only thing that amazes me about this story is that it hasn't happened more often. My experience has been that most airports do an impressively awful job of treating passengers in wheelchairs like human beings. (There are exceptions, to be fair - I've generally had better experiences…

Every time I see a picture of Taryn Manning being not-Pennsatucky, it takes me a moment to figure out who she is, and then I am shocked anew each and every time at how completely different (and lovely) she looks when she's not playing a crazy meth addict. Especially this time, because she is rocking the hell out of…

Dang. She's so pretty, but that outfit should be in the dictionary next to "unflattering." That is a "fire your stylist" moment right there.

The "romance" basically consists of "in between talking about how she's terrified of Christian and she hates BDSM, literally (and accurately) calling him a stalker, and cringing in fear of what he will do to her next, our narrator periodically turns towards the audience and says, 'I SURE DO LOVE HIM FOR NO ADEQUATELY…

If you like those, I can wholeheartedly recommend Jenny Trout's fantastic recaps (she's done the whole series, and she tears them to shreds brilliantly and hilariously): http://jennytrout.com/?page_id=5720

Well, art therapy is a real and reasonable thing. "Sexual healing," on the other hand...I dunno. That mostly sounds like he's a gigolo who waves crystals at you and talks about your "chi" while you bang.

I know I couldn't pull off that dress as well as Sofia Vergara does (because really, who could?) but I'm seriously tempted to go buy it anyway, because I get terribly excited by pretty clothes that both (a) flatter bodies with, ah, huge tracts of land and (b) manage to do so without exposing ten miles of cleavage.…

I dunno. I'm good friends with a couple who didn't kiss until their wedding day. The critical difference for me that made their case un-creepy was that they both chose that freely, as adults, without any particular pressure from their parents, and they really didn't publicize the fact that that's what they were doing…

Some people are actually sexually attracted to children. Some people are just attracted to rape, and aren't picky about whom they dominate and hurt as long as they get to hurt someone. :-/

Heh, thanks. I really do. He's awesome. :)

As others have said, your boyfriend sounds like a real piece of work, and you deserve better than that kind of bullshit.

Because parental leave isn't based on how important the experience of having a child is to you - it's based on the fact that there exists a tiny person who requires 24/7 care. If your guitar is actually a sentient being which cannot survive without you there to feed it every couple of hours, then you might be able to…

After I sang "Amazing Grace" at my grandfather's funeral, one of my aunts made me promise to sing "Ding, Dong, the Witch is Dead" at hers someday, because she thinks it'd be hilarious. I approve of other people with her sense of humor. :)

Yes. She really, really is. If you can get through 50 Shades without rooting for both of the main characters to die in a fire, you are a kinder person than I.

The problem is that the specific wrong idea that they're getting is "don't bother keeping things safe or consensual." It's pretty much a textbook abusive relationship - Christian stalks Ana, threatens her, tries to cut her off from her friends and family, hits her in ways she doesn't like, ignores her boundaries,…

That's nice.

Nothing happened to "innocent until proven guilty." That is absolutely still the LEGAL standard. Seeing as I don't appear to be twelve people sitting in a jury box but instead one person sitting in her bedroom in her pajamas, I don't actually need to apply legal standards to my judgments - nor should I, because that'd…