I think it's because as women we're trained from a young age to fear sexual assault from strange men. (Whether that's justified is a whole different discussion, but it's definitely the case.) It's hard to get past those instincts, even if you know intellectually that this strange man is a doctor and everything is…

There are lots of people who don't really do social media. But how likely are those people to pursue online-only relationships? If someone spends all day romancing me on twitter, I'd be pretty suspicious if they didn't do anything else social online.

I think people have misinterpreted the whole "ironically" thing - it wasn't about pretending to like something while secretly mocking it. It was about liking something *for* its weirdness or uncoolness, rather than *in spite of*. It's like when the eleventh Doctor wears a fez - he doesn't like it because he genuinely…

Looks like a plot to train the dogs to pick up litter :)

I got Rosetta Stone's intermediate Japanese after having taken courses in college, and I was *really* unimpressed - there's a lot of really important aspects of Japanese that it just didn't cover at all (formality, pronoun dropping, etc). I assume because those aspects weren't a part of whatever language all the…

I got Rosetta Stone's intermediate Japanese after having taken courses in college, and I was *really* unimpressed -…

Nice. Though the funny thing is, as scary as it looks, feuilleton is actually a pretty easy word to spell if you've studied french. I watched the video and while they try to trick the kid by giving him a really americanized pronunciation, once he asks for language of origin and alternate pronunciations it's pretty…

My father ended up in a situation like that once, actually - he drove around a corner to find that a car and motorcyclist had gotten in an accident, and were stopped in the middle of the road. He didn't have time to stop, so he had to decide in a split second - do I hit the car, or the motorcycle/motorcyclist?…

Games featuring super-sexy female characters are super popular with women! It's the same reason so many women read superhero comics - it just makes them feel so sexy!

Some women DO want to be powerful even at the expense of their sexuality. If not all the time, then at least sometimes, at least in fiction. Why not?

It's good to be cautious about returning to a failed relationship, but it can work out sometimes. My boyfriend and I broke up for almost a year, and I don't regret either the breakup or the getting back together.