So this is sorta old to reply to, but I’ve bought a few collector’s editions. Here’s what I find the most interesting looking back:

Japan is only conservative by certain standpoints. In reality it is far more complex than simply saying they are conservative. They like to preserve their traditions, so in that sense they are conservative. However, they are also extremely community minded (where a problem for one person equals a problem for…

Maybe that’s true, but you do need to look at who the intended audiences are and what those people like/expect from the genre. I am a woman who loves yaoi and it is everything I want in the genre. It explores relationships I don’t personally get to see and just like the old fetish of a man wanting a 3 way with two…

So I know I’m a late-comer (both to the Persona series as a whole and this discussion), but I’d like to point out a major flaw with your thinking: there’s an entire genre of anime/manga that is exclusively boy on boy relationships and it is hugely popular (heck even south park covered yaoi). So it’s not forbidden…

I find it sick. I wouldn’t let my kid even touch a cell phone in elementary or middle school. That’s disgusting to me. What possible reason is there for any child that isn’t a teen who might go out with their friends quite often and need to check in, to have a cell phone????

It’s because Colorado schools have no idea how to properly enforce that 0-tolerance policy they so proudly talk about on an almost weekly (if not daily) basis. Oh sure, it’s great to say they won’t allow such behaviors, but that is really only true if the bully is a poor student who can’t play sports, and isn’t liked…

I was in your same boat. I honestly think I would never have even made it to my teen years if it hadn’t been for my dad moving me across the state. Once that happened, my life changed radically for the better.

There is a boy in my town who tried on multiple occasions to commit suicide due to bullies threatening him. He had been hospitalized twice for it. The school did nothing. The kids who did the bullying never even got suspended (even with CO’s 0-tolerance policies, that they quite obviously know nothing about). If I…

You’re correct. What I think a few on here fail to comprehend is that if you are jailed for scaring kids (whether it be assault on a minor, or whatever), you won’t be there to take care of and hence, protect your child. How could anyone think that going to jail is a good option here?

I know that in my area of CO that kind of assault on a minor would be not only not tolerated, but almost physically impossible due to current security. The schools here do not let parents into the halls without a damn good reason (I have been turned away for things like wanting to have lunch with my elementary school…

That’s right. As I mentioned in a reply somewhere else, to notice this all you have to do is look at how the most sensitive, intelligent character, Kyle gets treated by the PC movement. He gets harassed, followed, and mentally abused until finally a brow-beaten Kyle gives in and confesses to their beliefs in a speech…

I don’t think this is true at all. Go back and watch some old episodes. There’s some very plain opinions by the show’s writers that even though there are racist and sometimes terrible jokes that are in the very least insensitive, the overall viewpoint is that people who have that offensive outlook lose in the end.…

I was born in Colorado and have lived here pretty much my whole life (with a few short stints around some other areas of the US). But I think the Coon joke was lost on you both. In my experience, if you hear a phrase like “coon” in CO, you do not immediately think of the racist implications that used to be associated…

Predatory loans are those like payday loans that claim to help people when they desperately need cash. Often these are people trying to decide between putting the 50 bucks they have towards food for the next 3 days or their electric bill to help heat their home. So they get convinced that in 3 days they’ll get their…

Hey, as a woman I’d just like to say that being called a pussy shouldn’t ever be taken as a bad thing. Pussies have created every single mammal life on this planet and are strong a resilient enough to bounce back after it. Maybe you should just call them nutsacks in reply since those are the really fragile bodypart. I…

I wouldn’t say that. He thinks the New Start deal with Russia was bad for us and good for Russia. If he pulls out of it, get ready for another cold war with Russia. He could start an arms race against them ending with pretty much everyone being killed by nukes. It’s asinine and crazy, but he’s ignorant enough to cause…