I like this. I have no problem with some super sexy super heroines, my objection is that ALL the heroines are super sexy (which undermines it when super sexy is part of the characterization, as with say Poison Ivy) and that heroes are almost NEVER super sexy (Thor in a tiny loincloth makes me a VERRRY happy woman, I…
May I point out as a feminist, comic book nerd, and comic book writer that the editors do not decide how busty/sexy a female character looks, that's the artist. Deodato draws everything hyper-sexualized but then you'll have an artist like Michael Allred who doesn't. Or you'll have somebody like Amanda Conner do…
First of all, fuck yeah Assata! I've read a bit about her and she seems like a total badass. I've also read a lot about what the police were like in the 70's towards people of color, especially to known members of the Black Panthers so I find everything the US government has to say about her totally suspect.
I don't know, but as of this moment I'm offering $100 to anyone who can produce video evidence of him or herself walking up to Black Israelite and asking the question, "Excuse me, sir, but what kinds of sects do you people have?"
The Bachmanns do seem to be happy.
I believe that is what this article was warning you about.
"How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days" is clearly a descent into madness modelled after "Gaslight," but with Matthew McConaughey in the Ingrid Bergman role.
Well, she could just be an asshole. Assholes aren't necessarily murders. I believe she's innocent as well and while her behavior was strange, I don't think any of us could say how we would react to finding out our roommate of 6 weeks had been brutally murdered while living in a foreign country. I could also see how in…
Bryant Gumbel?
"So when the odd date does come around I am left helpless and desperate to please."
Okay, if you tell a guy, "I don't know how to dress for straight men, I usually only dress for gay men and women so I didn't know what to wear on this date," don't be surprised and/or mortally offended if he gives you his personal opinion as The Voice Of The Straight Man. Because it really sounds like that's what you…
I think a skirt comes off more feminine, but I also think that jeans can be way more attractive. Ultimately, I think a date who is more comfortable is a lot more fun than one who's not.
I can't quibble too much with the advice given here. It does get harder, that much is obvious. People move away. People change. You realize that one friend you've had for 15 years is just always gonna act like a scrub, no matter how nice you are to her, no matter how many times you drive her to the laundromat.
And I gave you a suitable alternative to that language. Your objection is as much to the idea that we can teach people not to rape by teaching them about boundaries and communication and that acceptance of certain interactions is not a binding contract for consent to others as it is to saying "teach men not to rape."
Yeah, he is in the same galaxy as a good point there, but not still a few lightyears out.
I believe that we do need to take seriously the possibility that, broadly speaking, boys and girls learn differently and present different sorts of challenges, especially in adolescence. And, as SeaAnemone points out, the academic…
That's definitely what the It Gets Better project turned into, but it's definitely not the spirit that the thing was conceived in . . . (Dan Savage, I have your back 4EVR.)
People deal with the lot they get in life or fail to deal with it, from a combination of their own will and outside factors. I've led a pretty sheltered and lucky life, too, and understand the admiration and even intimidation of those who face and overcome challenges you can't imagine.
I don't think you're describing fear or a feeling of intimidation. It sounds more like admiration with a tinge of self awareness :).