Ripley is the reason I became a feminist, without even truly knowing I was since I didn't know what the meaning of the word was, at the age of 6. I just was at a panel with the entire Aliens cast for Calgary's Comic Expo, and Weaver and Henn were talking about how the movie was so ahead of its time for women and I…

My childhood fantasies of him have doubled after reading this comment.

Your grandmother sounds lovely, not being from Singapore and yet being such a great tour guide speaks volumes of a person. Is she unable to get a Singaporean citizenship or PR at least? That's horrible. Man, I don't agree with many of the immigration policies of Singapore. She sounds like someone SG should treasure. I…

Malaysian food and Singaporean food have minor differences, but no, not significantly so. They cut up their prata and call it something else, we have them in whole pieces - stuff like that, haha.

Thank you!!!

I am by no means saying Singapore is the best country or anything, but I find a lot of foreigners come to Asia expecting this while 'rough and tumble' scene, like some mecca for self-reflection, amongst the romanticised Asians living 'off the land' and then they see Singapore and think we're boring for not…

See, that's what I mean. Most of us who grew up there consider Lau Pa Sat overrated overpriced and really touristy. It used to be amazing! Like, a decade ago. Nowadays it's more catered to the expats and tourists. Over the last 5-7 years literally the only times any of my friends and I have been there is to bring our…

You can't have seen the real side of Singapore then! We do have amazing things. I yearn for the hawker centres on a daily basis, for one. It's the expat's life that's sterile there, whenever my friends from overseas visited I always brought them to local haunts. Obviously all this is in line with the government's need…

You think this is bad, the National Library just pulped - PULPED, mind you - three childrens' books for not being 'pro-family' according to the govenment's stance and the 'silent majority'.
Sometimes I feel embarassed to say I'm from Singapore. There are fabulous things about my home country, don't get me wrong, but…

This. Is. Perfect.

You'd think that, but I wouldn't be too sure either. I have a friend who played a vampire in a coffin, cloak and all, for a haunted house we held in school during a fundraiser. She was molested by a bunch of boys from a boys' school while she lay there with her eyes closed and they all stuck together and defended each…

You're my new hero. I'm going to use this in the next anti-buttsex person I have this debate with. Wish me luck in keeping a deadpan face.

I only just discovered spaghetti squash a month ago, having moved from the tropics (we don't get them there) to the great white north. I feel like I've found the holy grail of delicious yet healthy and filling foods. So. Much. Yumminess.

"If you like it you should've put a ring on it" = "if you like my finger you should put a ring on my finger"? Makes no sense. The first 'it', at least, refers to her, even if it does refer to her finger it reduces her whole being into a body part, this use of metonym is significant as it still objectifies and turns…

The only thing that annoys me about that song is that line 'If you like it then you should've put a ring on it.' - is she objectifying herself by referring to herself as the receipticle (sp?oops) for a ring, and nothing more? Just that pronoun, 'it'. It bothers me.

I still dance like a maniac once I hear this song…

Amen to your last two sentences!!

Because it's not really about politics or saving lives, it's about brainwashing and grooming as many as they can from young to feed into their numbers. Christianity is the only religion based on the idea of converting the world, after all - you don't see Hindus or Muslims going around saying 'Convert or burn in Hell,…

Is it just me or do these balls almost always look like girls being put on display for some kind of wedding dress rehearsal? I know coming out parties and such tend to lean towards white dresses too, anyone have any background info on this, was it used to literally put eligible girls out there for the men folk to be…

Amen!!!!! 'You don't understand because I have a penis and you don't' is basically 'boys will be boys' rephrased.

I don't know, I've read some of her other posts and she seems to be rather into jock culture, not in an ironic manner, hence my reply to her in that manner. I did wonder if she was being sarcastic until I realised she was writing similar comments pretty sincerely in other threads here.

That being said, I could be…

Actually, male contraception that 'actually works' (your tone suggests there isn't any) is in fact something that has existed for a while now (ugh I forget the name and am in a rush, but there was an article here about that a while back) - problem is most companies aren't willing to fund these for further research to…