Oddly enough, I never had a favorite color. But I do know what you mean about kids adopting arbitrary things as a part of their identity, usually because people ask them about them and they think they need to have an answer. My version of this is favorite animal, I suppose. My favorite animal as a kid was a bunny. …

For example, here's the one I mentioned earlier. Shocking, emotionally upsetting, sticks in your mind, but also tastefully done.

BTW, I have no problem with an ad narrative that includes kids dying. I'm not saying dead children is such a taboo subject that it cannot be depicted. What I'm opposing is the deliberate manipulation of guilt and the could-have-been. The ad shows loads of wistful childhood "I'll never do's" followed by a "because"…

Advertising is made to manipulate emotions. Nationwide's primary goal is to make money. Information that can help parents safety proof their homes is a good thing. Reaching as many people as possible to promote information requires clever marketing. I think everyone can agree with those things.

Love them together, yes, but love her with Gregory Peck even more.

That's my least favorite song too. Lyrics are silly, but worse is that the song just isn't good. Can't follow the melody really. I think her interpretation of it is as good as it could get though. She seems like a naive and scared young woman who was bravely about to enter a new unknown adult world. She's afraid,…

Thanks for the answers. Yes that definitely clarifies the libido vs asexual thing. I'm glad you two have found something that works for you. The diversity of experience is fascinating. I suppose there are marriages that have been dealing with this since the dawn of time and we just didn't have conversations about…

OK, I get that. I would not want to say that a transgendered person who identifies male has female genitalia, I see what you mean by that. I didn't think about that. I thought you meant I needed to be sensitive to the fact that I don't find vaginas attractive and that this might offend people with vaginas. lol But…

BTW, I have never lost a child either but I have lost a young family member in a way that was sudden and unexpected and full of gut-wrenching what-ifs, and it is by far the the worst thing that I have ever felt and I can't imagine how anything could be worse. I accept that it must be worse for parents still,…

These marketing people, especially the ones designing superbowl ads, are really good at their jobs and they know exactly what they are doing and they are motivated far more by profit than any desire to help children. The ad did exactly what it intended to do- shocked and upset people and generated controversy, and it…

Sudden and unexpected death of a young loved one is such terrible grief that I don't think someone outside of having had that experience can possible understand it. The only way your comments make sense is to realize that you have no idea what it is like. There are better ways to achieve the same results and get…

First off, they aren't the ones that should do it. They are a for-profit business, and they need to stay away from that sort of emotional manipulation. If someone is really concerned about kids dying in accidents, then a nonprofit group needs to put out a PSA and the Superbowl is probably a good place to do it as it…

Thanks. I was wondering about that.

Did Missy Elliot really say nigger, big cock, pussy and shaving my crotch? Or is this person complaining about some of her lyrics not featured in the performance? Because I can see that this language isn't appropriate for a halftime show, as much as I love Missy Elliot.

If you could get boys and girls in a safe environment to honestly and seriously talk about their insecurities and curiosities, that would be great. I imagine such opportunities don't happen that often, and you couldn't just walk into a classroom and create that sort of trust and honesty and serious introspection in a…

Oh my god. But yes, I agree that boys can help. But if you are going to educate boys so that they don't perpetuate mean and immature behavior, you want to direct your education at them and what they are doing and help them think about how/why they feel/say the things they do. This should be a goal in and of itself,…

Anyone who talks about the common man or the common woman as if they are distinct from that is already high on their own sense of importance.

So I wonder about feral children or children who grew up isolated from other people. When they go through puberty, do they have sexual feelings of arousal even though they've never seen people they are attracted to?

It sounds like you two have something that works for your marriage which is the most important thing, and something that many people can't figure out regardless of their sexual orientation so that makes it special too. But, it sounds like she is a little asexual herself. You don't have to answer this at all and…

Actually when I was writing back, I was thinking- wow there is so much about my experience of sex and attraction that I'm taking for granted. I've never even thought about how these things are linked or how they affect people or how you act on them. It's the old case of not being able to see that you can't see…