I hear you. It’s concerning that the one area where they can agree is pearl clutching.

It’s just like expanded universe material from Star Wars (Trek, B5, etc take your pick). They realized there were some flaws and inconsistencies with the primary canon material so they added on and patched the holes and wrote fan fiction until some of it got accepted as true by later fans.

We’re talking about religion here...the explanations, rationalizations and faithfulness get more sophisticated and nuanced as people get older but the logic and reason are pretty much frozen at tooth fairy/Santa Claus levels.

God yes. I’m so happy to see this upvoted. There is a really bizarre problem where a lot of people in the social justice movement act like sanctimonious evangelical Christians, demanding penatence, refusing to listen to or communicate with others and making it more difficult to convert people to genuinely good causes.

Jesus. Are you and your partner fucking ten years old? Aren’t your positions a bit more sophisticated than a 4th grader’s??

I think she’s got a campaign going on right now to remove foreign students from the UK’s universities. As I’m one of them, you could say I’m not a big fan.

What I continue to find lacking in the coverage of this is the fact that the “deal” is not just between Iran and the United States. This is a multi-national agreement that has already been approved by the UN Security Council and the other nations participating. Congressional “approval” is mostly pro-forma and not the…

I’m a feminist who is constantly talking about the patriarchy and sexist ideas of acceptable femininity. . . but this would piss me right off.

Nazi catholics, Hitler included, were never excommunicated.

Sexuality is also much more socially influenced than most people think. The concept of heterosexuality (indeed the word itself) is only about 200 years old. Prior to that there were lots of cultures (and I imagine still are some) where same-gender sex was a pretty normal part of adolescence and even adulthood.

Straight man here: Frankly, I see your point. It makes me wonder how much being physically attractive is within our control. Jezebel for a time really pushed the idea that “pretty is a skill,” and that with makeup and effort, any woman can become beautiful if she is willing to be “compliant with the system.” Honestly,…

To the point about “attractive” bisexual women falling into hetero relationships, I think a large part of that just comes down to numbers. If you’re someone who is attracted to both men and women, there’s simply more straight men in the dating pool than queer women. Better odds of finding your connection when pulling…

Tl;dr - Women who present themselves in a heteronormative feminine way such as maintaining a certain weight or wearing their hair a certain way in order to be attractive to men and therefore “snag a man” are, in fact, trying to “snag a man”.

Attractiveness is not objective. People rate these women “attractive” because they adhere to a heteronormative ideal of femininity. It’s not the other way around, wherein innate attractiveness somehow causes innate heterosexuality, which is what people will assume when they speed-read these scientific studies. They…

Hahahaha!!!! Also, I love vincent-van-goghfuckyourself. Everything about this is clever as... well, as shit.

That’s just like, your opinion, man.

I know. I’m so tired of Westerners romanticizing Eastern religions. They are just as ghastly as Western religions.

my son i know from experience that there is good kinja and great kinja and i’ve got to say this kinja is some great-ass kinja

Fun fact: During the writer's strike, he was the only correspondent to appear. Apparently, he was on a worker's visa which made him legally forced to appear or otherwise be deported.