Hard to believe there aren't any links to Serial Mom!

Is this the same Italy that put scientists in jail for failing to predict an earthquake? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20025626

Interesting point.

Those are really disturbing clips but there is some good info there. Thanks for sharing.

I know "I'm sorry" does nothing to heal you, but here I am saying it all the same. I can't imagine what you've been through. I wish there was something we could say to make it better.

Thanks for having humility for your daughter regularjane. It must be such a challenging thing being a parent in this situation. My own mother died before she ever actually admitted I was gay—despite the fact that she liked to hang in gay bars with my ex boyfriend. It's weird how these things develop. Thanks for being…

This part is tough, but you are one step on the way. They may surprise you. And you may also notice the little ways they express their love and support for you even though you don't feel it right now. Think about how hard it was for you to tell other people that you are gay; in some ways your parents are feeling that…

I don't really understand how the idea of risk mitigation gets blurred with the concept of responsibility. Yes, I've read plenty of arguments about how people "asked for it" and that's bullshit. But the idea of risk mitigation by itself should not be offensive just because it is not the same as responsibility.

Oh, RE: are guys taught not to molest. I am a gay dude. By the standards of sexual assault on these boards I have been sexually assaulted about 8 - 10 times... by both men and women. For some reason some women in high school especially just felt like they should be able touch me anywhere. I have never dwelt on this…

Obviously I don't know this guy but to make a snap judgment about him, I think he probably did know it was an issue and didn't care. I also get the feeling though that the conversation had been edited, which doesn't make him a nicer guy but does make him have a better sense of self preservation than to lead off with…

I mean even at its best it looks like a spring catalog for Pier 1 Imports.

Well played.

For me it's not the content, its the overall "feel" of the site. I described it in another post as grotesquely suburban and affluent. Some people's thing, but I can definitely see why it would not have universal appeal.

I don't consider Pinterest innately "girly," but I do consider it uncomfortably antiseptic. There's something grotesquely suburban and affluent about the aesthetics that I can't quite put my finger on. Call me elitist (I am) but somehow the design suggests "Gelato shop in Yorba Linda" or "Limited time only at Pier 1."…

Midway down the page on Manterest there is a shirtless picture of Steve McQueen...

Deal.

Thighs are hot. But I'm a dude into dudes.

Thousands of years? Why, Methuselah, you've certainly aged well.

From the perspective of this gay man, her point about heterophobia not being a "thing" is hard to digest. I am not a martyr. I have same the same capacity for evil as anyone else, and that includes a capacity for irrational, destructive hatred. Homophobia is A struggle in my life, yes, but is not THE struggle, or…

Didn't make it past the opening paragraph. This blogger takes down Lindy West's posts far better than I could ever hope to: http://ohyeswesaidit.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/the-white-hipsters-burden/