Do you not realize that sex and gender are not in any way the same thing?

But men with complete androgen insensitivity syndrome aren't physically ambiguous. They have breasts. They have vaginas. They appear female. It's their internal reproductive organs (that is, their testes) that's different. But no one's going to notice with the naked eye.

Same thing with pre-op and -hormone transgender…

What about boys with aphallia or androgen insensitivity syndrome? Sex is not half as simple as "penis = boy, vagina = girl."

Ugh, yes. I am forever grateful to my psychology professor for devoting an entire lecture period to exactly how messy and complicated sex and gender are in humans.

Someone needs to do a full, quantified analysis of brodom and all its subtypes.

I don't think it's just rural America, honestly. I live in a suburb outside a major city and I see a lot of improperly used dreamcatchers. The tattoos really confuse me—that is using a dreamcatcher in exactly the opposite way it is supposed to be. Are you trying to trap nightmares on your calf?

Maybe you can try making them with whole wheat flour? And like another poster said, you could add fruits and vegetables to them! Like a wheat crepe with tomato, spinach, and mozzarella. Or a wheat crepe with bananas and strawberries. Or a wheat crepe with green apples and brie...

Ohhhh. Gotcha.

"...We pretty much worship women."

As a ladygeek, I think it's more that male geeks tend to worship a particular type of woman or an idea of women that may or may not actually exist...and that when a woman contradicts that ideal, they usually shut down very quickly. I mean, look at the comments on any Kotaku piece that…

I agree. I mean, kids believe in Santa Claus—most of them will swallow what their parents/adult figures tell them regardless of how logical those beliefs are.

I think you're making a big assumption when you say that the OP's (or anyone's) "local" men are somehow better and that they'd never do something like this. I split my time between (rural) CT and NY; we had a rape occur in broad daylight and in public a few years ago in my part of Connecticut. She did everything you…

This is a blog, not a news site. If you want "just the facts" on anything, you should probably go somewhere else.

Kittens? Kittens aren't judgmental.

(Really, I don't know. If you're hinting at something, I don't think anyone is getting it.)

I think that this is kind of covered by #2, but not entirely.

Don't try to get someone's contact information on false pretenses—like saying that you need it for school or work and then use it for sexual/romantic purposes instead. Even if you are already somewhat familiar with the other person, it is skeevy and you are…

But getting around the blocks is so much fun!

I really don't think you're overreacting. At all.

He did something sexual with your body without your consent. You can't have consented, as you were unconscious. I'm not sure I would call it rape, but he definitely violated you.

I really wish I could offer you some helpful advice, but I really have no idea what to do…

But are these knockoffs explicitly advertising it as "African-American?" What I'm trying to get across here is that in the States it is actually illegal to sell products falsely labeled as Native American or as of a Native nation/tribe/band per the Indian Arts and Crafts Act, which many brands—such as Urban…

The local church has a Blessed Virgin statue that gets passed around to different families. Now I'm wondering if it's an elaborate, sneaky way to sell hard drugs.

(Honestly, the local church has done worse things.)

Is there a slew of major retailers selling fried chicken falsely advertised as "African-American Fried Chicken?"

If you are not Native, then it is not in any way your place to tell a Native person how to frame their conversation about Native things. This is not in any way a conversation about non-Native people. This is not in any way a conversation about you or what you want or whether a Native person said something unkind about…