Well, now I am laughing. :D

I couldn't find a better gif! I apologize!

I need to learn how to laugh at these things. I am too often stunned into silence.

Yo, I don't care about this discussion either way, but I'm mostly amazed at the mental gymnastics it took you to somehow think that she said that somehow you were sending her rape threats. You, specifically. Holy hell. How did you get there?

I agree with that.

I thank you for the correction of the language, and see your point there. I was hoping you would go a bit into discussing how the practice is perceived by the women who practice it.

Feel free to enlighten me.

I also second the person who suggested De Beauvoir. Long, but accessible, and pretty depressing.

I don't have a problem with overthrowing all of culture, but then again I have a soft spot for the Bolsheviks.

I have been coming around on this as a metaphor, though. Can't say I don't like it.

Ti-Grace Atkinson terms this phenomenon as the "primordial rape", but you can look at most myths and folklore of earlier civilizations and see that women got the short end of the stick. Probably because the whole birthing thing being terrifying, also the bleeding? Who knows.

I feel perfectly okay criticizing female genital mutilation, regardless of which culture happens to practice it.

Didn't American college students going off to save The Other die when philosophical deconstruction arose?

I feel the part where the men are able to overcome it to rape the women is kind of telling. They don't really believe in the power of the period. It's one of those folklorey things that explains a woman's lesser place while also can be circumvented whenever by those who dominate them. :(

Well, McCaskill. I only voted for you because Todd Akin made himself so unbelievably dickable and horrible, but I am glad to see that I clearly made the right choice while in a blind rage. Thanks, senator. And thanks to all your friends.

I once farted into a donut for attention. I know that feel, bro.

THANK YOU. I was thinking the same thing. Like, what the fuck? WHO ELSE ARE YOU GOING TO HECKLE? ORPHANS IN THE PROCESS OF GETTING DEWORMED? Christ.

That still makes you a necrophiliac.

My mother died in 92.

That's what your mom said last night.