Yeah, people don’t have to share their culture, but some people would love to. I’ve travelled extensively and in most places people are thrilled to show you their customs and have you participate. And because I know this will be an issue, I’m not from a Western country and my people have never colonised anyone.

Precisely my thoughts. There’s cultural appropriation but there’s also cultural exchange and the latter is amazing and beneficial for everyone. I think yoga, in general, is an example of the latter.

I love you for mentioning Sugarcubes. They’re incredible.

I bawled my eyes out at that film. Sobbed through the entire second half.

I am SO jealous. So jealous. I’m a fanatical fan of hers. If I met her, I think I’d die on the spot. Just from having nothing to live for any longer.

It is hard, but you know it’s better in the long run. Losing an abusive partner cannot be not good for you. I am so sorry he is putting you through this. It will get so much better. All the hugs and love to you.

Yeah, it seems it would be much more expedient for ISIS to radicalise people who already have an easy entrance into Europe than to try to smuggle terrorists in via uncertain routes. Which is what they have been doing, by all accounts, and if I’m judging this correctly, sowing discord between Muslims and non-Muslims in…

Thank you for putting in words why I’ve always felt icky about this affair. My libido plummeted in recent years but I don’t think this is a problem, I feel just fine with it. I don’t feel like I need to be treated or irregular in any way - and being told I have to be “fixed” brings out a vague ire in me that you…

If most other low-libido women are like me, then the explanation is women are just fine with their low libidos. I don’t feel sick and I don’t feel like anything’s wrong with me.

Public access is a good cause too. Calling access to books “consumption” is a misnomer IMO - they’re used for education primarily, whether in institutions or personal, and that’s a benefit everyone should be able to enjoy.

I’m sorry. This sounds super tough.

Yes, I’m uninformed and know next to nothing about terrorism and jihad but I feel that denying these people fleering the horrors of war entry to countries where they can find some degree of safety is inhumane and infinitely deplorable and I just can’t express how wrong it is.

Well I just completely disagree. I don’t see why the wishes of dead people, especially ones who have been dead so long there aren’t people alive who knew them and cared about them, should necessarily override public interest. I don’t think they should, at all.

We see things very differently then. I take the view that an author’s work belongs to the public once they’re dead, especially if it’s culturally significant.

But by the time people will be able to do that you’d have been dead for 70 years, so it won’t affect you in any way.

“Maturing” into her true self is my guess.

I’d rather be able to read Jane Austen for free and ignore the derivative shit than having to pay to read an author who’s been dead for 250 years so someone who did nothing for the creation of her works could profit.

Yes. As fucked up as it is to say, they’re victims in a way too. They were probably vulnerable to exploitation and they ended up dead by their own hands, taking hundreds with them, while the culprits behind all of this are probably safe somewhere. It’s so, so fucked up.

These particular terrorists blew themselves up of their own free will. I doubt they will be scared by the possibility of someone shooting them.

I LOVE Fairytale of New York. The Killers have excellent Christmas songs too, especially Joseph, Better You Than Me, featuring Elton John and Neil Tennant <3