This was a really useful article. I've been tempted lately to take my young cat (just got her fairly recently) outside without a carrier or leash, just to give her a change of pace. But now I know I have to just suck it up and resist her sad meowing whenever I go out the door.

Yes. And slow pedestrians ruin the fun for reckless drivers.

For what it's worth, I'm a 45-year-old human being with a penis and a heterosexual orientation and I call 100 percent bullshit. I've found women up and down the age range attractive and in fact, most of the time, a 20-year-old looks like a little kid to me while 35 or 40-year-olds look smokin'-hot sexy.

Question: In what year do you think ol' Pat stopped referring to East Asians as "Chinamen"? I mean, assuming he has?

That picture. That expression says "real men only need apply". What a broad. RIP, LB. Boagie's been waiting for ya.

It's true, we papist idolaters usually get no love from the Proddies. But when little Missy's head begins rotating 360 degrees and the pea soup is projectile-vomited all over the wallpaper, who do they call? Yeah, that's right, Father Thomas Francis Xavier O'Brien Connelly with his whisky breath and Latin…

It's true, we papist idolaters usually get no love from the Proddies. But when little Missy's head begins rotating 360 degrees and the pea soup is projectile-vomited all over the wallpaper, who do they call? Yeah, that's right, Father Thomas Francis Xavier O'Brien Connelly with his whisky breath and Latin…

It sounds like you're making an argument in favor of free inquiry and you're chafing under the idea that mere intellectual curiosity can get you into trouble; this is personal to you not so much because of this specific situation but because you don't want to be deprived of a particular perspective, whether Smith's or…

You know, my knee-jerk reaction was just to tell you flat out you were wrong to ask that question, and now I wish I could delete that post (dunno why Kinja doesn't let you).
Anyway, I followed up with a second, more considered response where I'm basically saying that Rice brought a near lethal level of violence to the…

I agree with you, and the courts, from what I understand, do take account of that. Women obviously get physically violent too and sometimes are the aggressors. If she's going for your balls or trying to claw your eyes out, of course she's a danger to you and of course she may get hurt if the man defends himself.
But…

Um, no, it's not OK to ask, and it's not pertinent to the story. In a civilized society you don't get to beat up people who make you mad. Period.

For the record, DAAAAAHHHHH has been my signature battle cry since, like, 1983.

Whereas Spader plays is this tentative, shy bumbly type IRL but gets all dommie with Maggie Gylenhall (I misspelled that, didn't I?). Maggie G. *Sigh*. Man, I have a crush on her.
And that had to be the sweetest, kinkiest ending to a movie ever. Now I have to go watch it again.

I didn't even remember that (haven't seen Secretary in a while). Which I guess leads me to conclude that FSOG really is just a Disneyfied version of Secretary.
BTW, just from the trailer I can tell that they're really gonna botch the representation of true BDSM culture. The high-powered, alpha-male executive types are…

I was just setting my little fingers to typing when I saw you'd already hat-tipped Secretary.

Well, I'll just say this and let you have the last word. A black guy who saw his friend lynched in the Deep South and who got hassled by white cops his entire life might, at least in the heat of the moment, have some nasty things to say about all white people. Obviously the categorization is unfair, but at the same…

You're a guy, right? Me too. And I'm asking you, please, don't start in with this reverse victimization stuff. A lot of the women on this thread have been through that already. Read these posts, man. They're heartbreaking.
Can I suggest that instead of getting defensive, you just show some compassion and try and…

I am so sorry that happened to you. I'm an atheist not even spiritual so I can't pray for you/send light your way or whatever, but I can wish you well. Here's to better days, RBH.

I'm a guy, and long before I learned anything about feminism and patriarchy and power dynamics, I learned just to be fucking polite. Bellowing out to a complete stranger, unless it's something like "hey, look out for that safe that's about to fall on your head", is at best rude as shit. At worst it's the kind of…

Yam hammers? Pork honks? I can't decide.
Fuck it, just gimme the Kissin' Kuzinz Kombo Platter.