Aw, I liked that scene. But then, I liked the movie.

I liked the movie.

I don’t think anyone is laying sexual violence and contempt for women at the feet of porn - those issues have advanced with the global patriarchy. I think researchers are saying that porn isn’t helping those problems, and is, in fact hurting people and the public health. I think the research is on to something.

I think you’re seriously underestimating the influence pornography has in framing sexual behaviors and expectations, and how available pornography has become to children. In enormous states like Texas, where human sexuality education is entirely absent in public schools, pornography is part of what fills the vacuum.

This is fantastic. I love it when I think a strictly Southern turn of phrase is much more global...

I have the anchor scars. I try not to show them.

Tangent: I was shopping on Etsy one day and happened upon handmade BDSM floor bolts for restraints. They were — how should I say this — mobile. As in you could pop ‘em into a messenger bag on a hopeful day and be... ready.

I call this my “fat lady wheeze-laugh.” Because I am a fat lady who sometimes wheeze-laughs.

Wait. How is this racist? I live in the south and I hear white and black people use this term to refer to groups of people having a raucous good time? (I have never heard my Hispanic in-laws use the term.)

That sounds both wonderful and horrible.

Oh my goodness I love Sense 8...

I’ve said this on Jez before, but I loathe Evageline Lily, loathe her, because in a magazine interview she said some twaddle about praying to god to please “don’t make me pretty.” Such a fucking cross to bear.

Genetics?

That was such fun!

Tangent: In our local paper earlier this week, there was a photo of a couple who followed a distressed dog in a dog park to find its owner unconscious in the woods. The couple was walking their dog when the distressed dog burst from the woods.

Yeah. That happens a lot in corporate culture. You’re not permitted to say goodbye because I don’t know. I’ll never understand it.

What. the actual. Hell.

You have my blessing. Go forth and get you some Franco.

This has been the chief liability as obituary desks have been cut at newspapers. As they become paid content, with the space bought by funeral homes or families, obituaries aren’t edited for accuracy. Now news obits are a different story. But, yes, when families are paying for obituary space, they can literally afford…

What a wonderful read! I’ll make sure to see this documentary.