Congratulations on quitting :) My dad quit for five years, then got hooked again, so be careful (he quit again and I believe has almost reached the decade mark).

I think they're a terrible habit buuuuut I still think that like soda, beer and candy (my preferred drug? Cadburry Eggs), people should have the right to…

Forgive my ignorance, but -smell aside- wouldn't the second hand smoke be essentially the same?

I don't smoke, but I absolutely think these bans are getting ridiculous. I have asthma, and even a few puffs from a cigarette can make me sick, but I can stand a good two feet away from smokers outdoors and not even notice it. I think a lot of people's automatic revulsion when they see smoke is psychosomatic.

I'm more curious why smokers never, ever have a lighter on hand.

Yep. Pen Ward personally asked Paul Robertson to design one of the bosses, and he made the Chainsaw Bear.

I would say you haven't watched them much, then. Adventure Time has much more rules, world building, and continuity than Animaniacs and Freakazoid, which didn't have any more rules than, say, a Looney Tunes cartoon.

Freakazoid and Animaniacs are no-nonsense?

True, but Puppycat will never be as cute as BMO!

Looks like Allegri is a fan of Revolutionary Girl Utena. And you should be too!

As good as AT is, it just can't be for everybody, and that's cool. I love Gravity Falls, it's hard to choose between the two shows (here's hoping Disney doesn't make us wait a month between each episode next year, though).

Cow and Chicken is pure garbage, though. Awful animation, and disgusting humor. I can't…

Adventure Time is definitely a show for children. It's about childhood and about growing up and I think has some really great morals for kids. But adults like me love it too because it's funny as hell and has very creative animation, and the stuff aimed at kids is a real nostalgia trip for us. If you're just…

Age demographics is just a matter of marketing, and I'll be godddamned if I let marketing tell me what to watch.

I agree, though it seems you're assuming all feminists have to be women. I'm pretty sure the way to get men to join a "profeminist, anti-man-child/nice-guy project" is simply to educated them more about feminism. Most men's (and a seriously depressing number of women's, at least the ones here in the South where I…

I only recently heard about skin whitening cream. It's.... creepy on a very fundamental level. That's really awful about your friend, no one should have to feel that sort of unwarranted shame from their own family.

I'm a longtime cyclist, myself, so my arms have always been just a touch darker than the rest of me. …

When we bring tanning culture into the mix, it gets even more complicated, haha. I don't think anyone should risk skin cancer to look more like someone else or more like someone else's conception of beauty, but I also wouldn't tell someone what they can and cannot do with their body.

Just to add to the complications…

My first girlfriend back in high school was biracial, and I remember what attracted me to her on the day we first met was that her skin was downright beautiful. Over the next few years we became best friends, then dated before moving off to college. We talked about race a lot, and it was a good learning experience…