"The guy lit up with bliss and my heart shattered in pain. "
^I've been right there with you. Isolation from family is a classic in the abuser's playbook. So glad your thanksgivings rock now. Me too!

<insert internet stranger hug here>

Who wants to think about constructs when we can fantasize about the witty, makes-us-dinner-after-a-bad-day, androgynous, double-PhD construction worker of our dreams?

Competence and confidence in one's capabilities is so sexy. When someone is good with their hands around tools, music instruments, etc my mind immediately jumps to how skilled those hands would be with - ahem - other tools at hand.

(This probably explains my fixation on my husband's wrists. He has these giant, thick,…

Lies! Chipotle lunches are never a bummer!

(Then again, I do all the cooking in my house so eating anything made by not-my-own-hands is pretty frakking exciting)

Ahh... LGBT does not equal BDSM. There is some crossover, yes, but there are plenty of vanilla queer people.

The Egypt Game? Wowzers... you just resurrected a memory I didn't even realize I had lost. Thank you

Nothing brings me back a decade like witnessing a man spout bullshit about "deserving" women.

Ok. I think I get you. You are thinking change the legal/court system so addicts aren't charged as criminals but rather get treatment, leave the penal system intact. I was thinking more along the lines of the legal/court system and the penal system are part and parcel of one big damn system.

I wholeheartedly agree on…

Yeah... except then you get the random dude (or dudette... because honestly, I've seen both sides of this horror) who upon hearing you say anything any vaguely metaphysical start telling you about how they have studied with a 13th generation wiccan / kung-fu master straight from the mountains of china / the spirit of…

It isn't fair. But if this step forward for female inmates is accomplished, maybe that momentum can be used to catalyst even bigger changes. Picking your battles doesn't necessarily mean rejecting small solutions just because the bigger picture isn't fully fixed yet.

The criminalized-female aspect being discussed here is just a small part of the overall big picture

Huzzah. This tops off today's high score of happiness not only by endowing me with a star and a cookie, but also by calling me sir. The only time I get called "sir" in person is when I am in a dark room and the speaker sees my short hair and doesn't notice my tits. We lack a satisfactory female equivalent of "good…

(On topic) You nail it here:

The forced connection some people try to make between Bronies and pedophiles, or Bronies and the gay community are not much different than the connection between gamers and male unemployed bums who lived with their parents and were virgins of not too long ago

So would you go to ComicCon and say this to every grown man dressed up as Batman, Goku, Link or <insert cosplay from kid's comic/show/game here>?

I didn't know that having cons, forums, blogs, and fan art, movies, and fiction was "parading around". I thought it was... gee... hmmm... a pretty normal set of activities…

Because rattling one's spears at the other tribe compensates for little-dick feelings.

To generalize every fan by saying they're all super fanatical or that they fap to ponies, is just ignorant. Those people exist in every fandom, and you can literally say that about any group of people in the world. These are offensive stereotypes. Even though people's hateful comments about MLP fans don't even apply…

If you're truly happy, why all the defensiveness and discussion?

Yay! So glad someone else remembers!

Fandom_Wank... Oh the memories.