The difference between exploitation in other industries vs. the porn industry can be the difference between figurative and literal rape. I have worked for exploitive companies as a low-wage worker (McDonald’s, farm work) – that kind of wage exploitation did not cause me lasting emotional or (luckily) physical harm.…

I totally agree with you, I wouldn’t have seen this image if not for news stories. It was a deliberate move to flout the new standards. Models never have determined the aesthetic of the industry, it’s the designers and editors. If you research how the current “size 0” look came about, it’s messed up. It’s also not…

Aww, thanks. I’m “just” a stepparent, and parenting teens is harder than I ever imagined. There just isn’t one approach that works for every kid. Glad your girl turned out OK, she sounds like she could be a sensitive, creative type who was just finding herself. We’re touch-and-go right now, and I hope someday it’s…

My stepdaughter has left her diary out on her bed, and we have read it, and the same thing happened at her mom’s house independently of us. We have also secretly and not-secretly monitored her social media accounts. It is different these days because social media can be a pressure cooker for a toxic environment. I’ve…

Exactly, why do we make a huge deal out of men’s genitals? You can be a good lover of women or men without any penis at all. End of story.

From now on, when something in my order anywhere is screwed up, I’m going to clench my fist and angrily exclaim “Sean!”

I do love the good side of Reddit. However, I have a female gendered username, so I tend to stay in the safe corners because venturing into main-page posts with strong opinions has not gone well.

Not a great strategy to fix their female user problem by exposing the women’s sub to the rabble and making them feel less safe. It’s like the people who thought of that don’t have experience posting as women on Reddit.

Try posting anything strongly opinionated, with a feminine username, in one of the main forums.

I’m sure Lily Tomlin is a consummate professional actor. She was in comedy when it was even tougher for women to be in that field, I’m sure she’s never had the privilege of being able to act like a childish ass. Also, she’s great in that film despite him, and not because of him.

I worked in an ad agency in the midwest and was told that all the women had to help fill in for the receptionist’s lunch breaks by staffing the phone. My coworkers did it, but I refused and was told I had an attitude problem. Fuck that, we were in the design department and our time was billable! I was doing those…

Just going to park this right here...

I'm not defending the show, I think the criticism is legit and the writers have to answer it. However, I like to think that we will find out in Season 2 that Jacqueline is adopted. I also think of the name "Dong" as a callout to Sixteen Candles, and re-envisioning the Long Duk Dong character as a love interest and not…

At least she didn't say "Let them read Vogue!"

Besides all the singing I did living alone, I did a lot of weird lifestyle experiments because I also worked at home. A brief list: weird flushes requiring morning coffee enemas, swapping dinner and breakfast foods, sleeping in different rooms including on couches, wearing regular clothes to bed, face exercises,…

When alone, I live in a musical that I make up as I go along. I live with my SO and his kids now, so I don't get much musical time anymore, have to settle for the more mundane "songs made up about our cats". However I do swell with pride a little when I hear my SO's son singing one of my ditties, such as You're the…

You are my spirit animal. Be free.

Godammit left sharrrrrrk!

That was a great movie!

Oh, I'm really saddened. This guy seemed so awesome at such a young age – with so much potential. Being young is tough, internet fame is tough. :(