But when you are trying to sell something…you need to make it attractive. This woman has blotchy shadowed skin and scruffy hair.

Here's a direct quote from one of them. And there are just millions. It isn't even rare, pluys plenty of upvotes.

Then why don't men do as women did and organise and protest for shelters? Why dont they figure ways to raise funds? do you realise how overflowing most shelters are and how desperately underfunded? One thing always remains: men are stronger than women. You cannot send a woman back to face a batterer. A man does not…

Yes but what they seem to want is access on demand to very young females. And to roll back everything women have accomplished. They mock and belittle female careers and state repeatedly that women belong in the home. They should be supportive wives and then quote 'noble matrons'. They most important thing a woman has…

Warren Farrell is a moron who against even the simplest and most cursory glance at history, declares that 'men used to compete for the most beautiful women". This is just a straight-forward load of crap. Men didnt do this til the 19the Century when a consumer society began that rendered most women usless. Men did all…

Did you say you were a guy in high school? Should certainly be interesting looking on both sides of the curtain.

Interestingly, she said she was a guy in high school

Well, Return Of Kings or Heartiste or Matt Forney would be a good start. Quote (from a letter to his 15 year old brother): "Treat women like mindless fuck-toys who are garbage". Further quotes: "After 25, women are just wasting time"; "Youth, beauty and sweetness are everything"…and the lists of demands! As well as…

One time on this very website, I saw a piece of writing that just seemed exactly like myself..and that's how I found out, somebody commented on something I wrote "you may like to look into Asperger's Syndrome" and I was grateful for that signpost. Thought I'd do the same. So I dd. "You may like to see if you have…

Yes, me too. The relief, and that's what Susan spoke of. "You can stop beating yourself up now for all the times you screw up"…that's what I thought. I actually have a mis-wired brain..it isnt my fault that I seem totally insensitive and selfish, when I am really not.

What is wrong with America, how it treats the mentally ill? It's like it's considered a failure of character. "Stop hearing those voices and get a job". Even a show as sensitive as SVU will call sick people 'nutjobs' and 'whackjobs'. We wouldn't call heart patients 'cardiac jobs' or cancer sufferers 'tumour jobs'.…

What would you do if you saw it happening to someone else? A man with a knife? And you know, sometimes you reach out to help people only to have them snarl at you to mind your own business. Especially if they are crying.

I got that book from a second-hand shop, wasn't going to spend real cash money on it and I couldn't get through more than 10 pages. And this from a person who set herself to read the whole Bible, including all the begats at the age of ten.

what is mary-sue?

So are you allowed to have it removed if in a Catholic hospital? given that ectopic pregnancies should be removed with an injection that will make the body expel it, but the Church doesn't allow: the surgeon has to open her up and cut out the whole fallopian tube, foetus and all.

acid isn't violent!

I have never even heard of Lisa Frank. This is so fascinating.

Ah, I am sorry, I didn't realise it is because the kid is paler. That's just never an assumption I would make, that you weren't the mum! Lots of families are all different shades. I just thought they asked it because you are pushing a pram.

But if until very recently, the only women of colour pushing prams were nannies, isn't it going to take some people a while to adjust? Is it necessary to be so judgmental? The world is very large and population, especially in the States, diverse. People have to try to make rapid sense of it using codes and…

It isnt a sex scene but how about this quote from Wolfe's Back To Blood…it concerns Magdelena, who, although a trained psychiatric nurse, has no problem being chosen by a doctor as his assistant purely on her looks, and no issues about being kept by him: