I agree. This might be one of those self-critical moments where we ask could ourselves what it actually is about prostitution/sex work that bothers us, and whether it should bother us (in a collective sense—I don't want to make assumptions about individual beliefs).

I guess it takes skillz???

How did Anne Frank learn about the clitoris? Seems she's still exploring and learning, but still, she seems to have heard of a clitoris somewhere!

It seems like the exact same argument everyone else has offered, including myself.

It gives exactly as many fucks as whoever's speaking it, which is most often 0 fucks. But that's usually great, because that's how we get interesting dialects and awesome slang phrases. And Yiddish, and English. Although sometimes there are tragedies, like ATM machine.

I think so. I've always said 'hula dancing' until I thought about it just now!

Hula dance—that's another one

I think when people make the 'evolving language' argument, they mean to say that redundant phrases come to have a meaning in themselves. So 'chai tea' in English means a particular kind of spiced tea, or a 'conniption-fit' just means a particularly spazzy fit, and is a phrases in itself. If those phrases become…

Ah, there it is. I guess I haven't commented/gotten replies often enough to notice! Thanks!

Does everyone have a 'dismiss' button? I'm a regular reader and occasional commenter, but I usually end up down in the grey, and I can't find the buttons of which you speak!

It seems like there's a pattern, when the meaning of the term isn't clear in English, the redundancy affirms the unclear meaning—like in ATM [machine], chai [tea], monsoon [season] (thanks, calei), conniption [fit].

I don't think you can make rules for using words or phrases. There are a lot of words people use commonly that were at one point or another grammatically incorrect, or redundant, or foreign etc. I was under the impression that most 'English' words are borrowed from other languages, or at least a large proportion of…

I guess in the 1930s, potato-headedness was the cat's pajamas

I'd like to add Pocahontas to the list. She schooled all of the men in the movie, which also didn't end in a marriage.

I actually just got to thinking: as someone who has done a lot of research on different religions, have you ever thought about what they all have in common? or what questions they all ask? Maybe looking for that would be somewhat fulfilling in itself. I don't know, just thinking out loud.

The Ken Clean-Air System sketch!

and it's also pretty awkward for the mom, who is totally getting reamed by her daughter in a very public way, albeit anonymously.

I agree. I at least know that I would be profoundly saddened to hear that my daughter kept all of the most important events in her life from me, and would continue to do so.

Shit's gonna hit the fan when she finds that one thing about Islam that doesn't make sense to her.

I admire her for exploring, but it seems more like she knew exactly what her beliefs were and was trying to find a religion that suited them perfectly—100%. If that's true, what religion she chooses would only make a difference in what kind of clothes she wears and the address of her place of worship, and which name…