You can have a strong, accomplished female character without also making her a nuclear physicist. They write themselves into a corner by insisting no matter a woman's narrative function in a story, she must also be 25.

I had similar thoughts when the Bond movies tried to sell a 27 year old Denise Richards to me as an accomplished nuclear physicist. Really. REALLY.

Uhg, no. The music he did with Timbaland was awful. I'll take "Suit & Tie" over the cringing auditory nerve assault that was "Sexyback."

Whoa. Hey now. Let's not get crazy. It was totally the 80s.

It exists. That kind of thing has been happening for decades. At one point sauerkraut was called "liberty cabbage."

That's brilliant. I was gothed up like some velvet cathedral so I used my people's traditional home remedy: wide-ribbon chokers and really long hair.

I got on the bandwagon when ads started showing up in my Twitter feed. I'll put up with some ads on some sites, but I block anything with sound, flashing images or giant ads that take up too much real-estate, and anything that shows up in my social media feeds. Did I follow you, Walmart? No? Then get out of my…

I paused adblock long enough to see that yep, Facebook is still advertising religiously-based self-help programs and student-loan debt assistance. I'm an atheist without any debts to speak of, sooooo......missed the mark there.

I can't agree more with that last paragraph. There's a quota: 50% dick jokes, make sure comment about how old/fat/bald someone has gotten, throw in something about and STD and bam! Done. Once I can pick out your formula what's the point?

Still Sleeping Beauty apparently, although really they have a better princess for that.

For some it's tradition. I went to a wedding for some family friends who were Chinese and it was a lovely production that the bride reappear a few times in a new dress. It's apparently What You Do in some cultures.

UHG! Dad Clothes! He thinks short shorts are bad? My dad would wear clothing until it literally fell into little pieces. My mother used to have to hide his hole-filled clothing and take it to the trashcan the day of pickup because otherwise he would find the stuff and wear it because "it's broken in, it's more…

Doesn't Japanese culture have a certain amount of influence in Hawaii? I've heard there's a large Japanese ethnic population there.

I've only met one Kai and he was Hawaiian. Ansley always makes me think of the woman on West Wing. Well then good on them for going gender neutral across the board!

I'm not familiar with all the names, so I erred on the side of caution. Ansley and Kai have always seemed gender-specific but then I've never actually met an Ansley, so what do I know.

If your goal is to educate students about consent, and cover the fact that the people you will be teaching will include gay, straight, bisexual, men, women and transpersons, then this is the kind of language you want to use. If your goal is to cover the aggressive actions committed by students, then this is still the…

Yes, statistically the majority of rapists are men, but the outlined scenarios aren't male or hetero specific. Gendering the aggressors as universally male denies that sexual abuse happens by women to other women, or by women to men. It hurts no one to make the scenarios as inclusive as possible to everyone's…

I find myself appreciating that they used several gender-neutral names and avoided using gendered pronouns in the outlined scenarios. It sort of steps away from the idea that "these are things that happen to women" and frames it as "this is behavior that can be performed by and happen to anyone."

It gets crazier if you imagine Dorothy and Maude both as Bea Arthur. Although frankly it'd be two tops without a bottom.

I imagined everyone as a cast member from Golden Girls. Works especially well for that first letter. In the last one I just picture "Arthur" as a pseudonym for "Stan." That seems like the kind of thing he'd do.