I work at a science centre and our summer exhibition is on video games. We are demonstrating the first Dev Kit of Oculus Rift as part of the exhibit and… men, women, children, bearded and beardless, many are ready to plunk down $400 to buy one on the spot. We aren't selling them, but I could probably rake in a ton of…

Yes.

Nah, she was in on the joke… she had the bottle of water ready.

It also sounds pretty much like Family Feud, except without the Feud. You just have to clear the board before moving on.

Supreme Leader of the Snorks? My fanfic is finally coming true!

I think you hit the nail on the head for me by describing "bear culture" as reactionary. While beary-type guys are hot (yes!) and all very nice people, I'm sure, the idea of forming a new label to get away from the clone ideal seems to me to be really missing the point. It's the whole labelling thing that, ultimately,…

Well, I am painting with a broad brush, it's true, but I can't help but think that bear culture boils down to "masc" (ugh!), bearded, muscular and hairy, as opposed to sculpted, coiffed, muscular and smooth.
I recall a situation, which admittedly was a few years ago now, where an Asian guy was kicked off Bear411.com…

Don't you know there's only one acceptable way to be gay? If you don't fit my rigidly defined rules of "gayness" you shall be shunned. Shunned!

Agree, upvote and all that.
And to continue in the same vein, a lot of the younger drag queens that are doing genderfuck drag, where the reference to femininity is glancing at best, are REALLY doing fun, creative things to shake up the whole masculine/feminine binary bullshit.

That is a shallow reading of what drag does. Drag takes the misogyny of our culture and inverts it and creates a point of strength. Gay men are derided as sissy or girly because to our culture, a boy or man who acts like a girl is a disgusting thing. Gay men have traditionally been outcast because of this perceived…

Drag queens are performers, first and foremost. They take a character and perform it. It's their craft and their profession.

Phi Phi as Harley Quin, right?

5 now, and I would pay to see that movie. I'm pretty sure I had a crush on the lead guitarist and his sexy vest.

I also would have like that pointed out, instead of glancingly referred to.

50 000 shades of grey is an awful lot of grey. I feel ambivalent about that. As if there were no strong arguments either for or against having such an exorbitantly large number of greys. I find myself neither here nor there about that.

I'll give you Megan's Maman and his own wife, but you certainly don't "score" at a brothel. It's more "making a purchase", isn't it?

I'll give you Megan's Maman and his own wife, but you certainly don't "score" at a brothel. It's more "making a purchase", isn't it?

There were interrobangs‽

I also thought it was strange that his name is actually Subban.

Don't forget your mug of tea, with steam curling ever so wistfully from the surface.