Yes, thank you. As I mentioned in another comment, this isn’t the kind of equality I was hoping for, but it does serve as evidence against the “men are pigs/women are emotionally mature and empathetic” stereotype (which ultimately undermines women’s equality, and which I notice is frequently perpetuated by men…

Let me be clear: this is not the kind of equality I want. But when this kind of thing happens, it’s evidence against the “men are pigs/women are emotionally mature and empathetic” stereotype, which (as a woman) really grates on me.

I wish I could remember where I read this, but someone who was sent to one of those camps joked dryly that you leave those things more gay than you were when you arrived.

Isn’t that the slimeweb stuff from Stranger Things?

I’m Canadian, so in a way I don’t really have a dog in this race, but for obvious reasons I fear political instability in the US. One of the things I find most horrifying about this administration is precisely what you describe: a government seemingly on a path to self-destruction. It’s sort of like watching someone…

Thank you for sharing, Giovanni. I wish I could star this more than once. Have you considered writing this as a magazine article or blog post?

This needs

The placement is wrong, for one thing. I feel like either the knot or the wide part of the tie should be over the bits. It’s bugging me.

D’aww, I just noticed that you complimented my user name. Thanks!

Realistic? I loved generations 1 and 2 of Skins, snotted pathetically into wads of kleenex, etc....But “realistic” isn’t a word I’d use to describe the show. It’s a soap opera. With good characters and humourous moments.

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Awesome, thank you for introducing me to this artist. I like this series. More please!

I don’t blame her for not wanting to take “that kind of money.” The gay men dollars to straight women dollars exchange rate has been terrible lately.

I love that he backed up his assertion that Mexico would pay for it with “believe me.”

Over 24 hours! The horror!

This incident was fairly harmless in itself, yeah. But it seemed like a childish bid for attention, and was part of a larger pattern of drama-creating and attention-seeking behaviour that torpedoed a lot of her relationships.

I had a friend who, totally out of the blue, changed her relationship status to “married” to one of her friends (a friend to whom it was plausible she might get married). Of course everyone piled on, asking why she didn’t tell them and congratulating her and stuff. A day or two later she posted “OMG YOU GUYS CHILL OUT…

Re. the thumbnail on the second video: my initial reaction was to mentally yell “FFS, content warning! I didn’t need to burst into tears in the library today!”

I recall that some people were indeed offended, although maybe not to this degree...Which is funny, because if you treat the Bible as the ultimate authority,* the claim that he’s male is actually pretty justified, whereas the claim that he’s a pale skinned northern European is ludicrous. I don’t know what colour the…

Number one reason: because there are many documented cases of death row prisoners being pardoned (some of them too late) after new evidence surfaces.