RE: #3 - Similar experience to Sara's. When I was 16 (more than a decade ago), I was depressed and suicidal. I had a friend who listened and was pretty much there for me. She listened until it became more than she could handle alone, and then she told my brother, who told my parents. I probably wouldn't be here if…

I get this. I wouldn't wear it, but I get it. The Keep Calm meme is disturbing. It's perfectly plastic pablum. Soothing, lukewarm, shrine to complacency and status quo. It's shouting out the need for subversion.

We all fall short of moral and ethical perfection. Even within organizations that in theory are formed around common values, you will find a diversity both of opinion and in quality of judgement.

Thank you. :-)

Seconded. I love that movie!

The problem is the mix of items.

I think you're confusing this article with the SURPRIZE BUTTSECKS meme. Natural mistake.

(It's only really kinky if you involve the parrot.)

SEX UR DOIN IT RONG.

We call it "F* like a Pirate Day". Unfortunately, it comes but once a year. Arr.

Yes.

That's not say I'm hostile to the idea. I've tried pegging (on the 'giving' side of things) and thought it was kind of fun, but it definitely did not change my life.

Not listing the authors' credentials? Doesn't anyone else ask, "who is this expert and why should I listen?"

I'm inclined to agree. But then I also consider the possibility that technology has democratized the written language. Brought reading and writing into people's living rooms where it was once a solitary flame tended in dusty dwellings populated by lonely nerds and bookish blowhards (Twofer, here). As writing becomes…

Nailed it: "What it feels like, to me, isn't satire — it's an attempt to have his cake and eat it too, trying to appeal to the crowd that genuinely agrees with this stuff while also getting credit for making fun of that crowd. "

I'm not a hater. I just have an opinion. Not all things are equal. I am going to evaluate based on the best knowledge I have, and decide whether one thing is better than the other.

I think because, culturally speaking, the presentation rather than the inner experience of being a woman is heavily emphasized. The idea of being on display, and of anyone (particularly men) being allowed to pass judgement on your worth based on this.