But what of the lesbians, yo? Many of those young whipper-scissor-snappers enjoy a trimmed bush just as much as a man does (perhaps even more as there is a higher likelihood of them going down).

I agree that must be very annoying! My little sister has the same problem and it causes her much anxiety.

Okay, to be fair, you spend the majority of your time on either Gawker or Gizmodo. Which still means you have no clue as to what the vibe is on Jez, or which celebrities are given positive reviews and which not (hint: it's usually based on clothes, not bodies). Either way, the question has its own implication as to…

Groupthink. Reliance on cliches in storytelling. The fact that gaming companies tend to be staffed by men, who may not catch the gender issues in those cliches, even if they mean well. The fact that Skyrim is in a particular genre - the RPG - where creating your own character is an established practice, and that games…

I feel the same way about Peter O'Toole in The Lion in Winter.

I strongly disagree. Suffrage wasn't gained b/c the suffragettes were extra nice to everyone. Jim Crow wasn't overturned b/c W.E.B. Du Bois baked cookies for the Mississippi legislature (and Booker T is still seen as kind of milquetoast by many, even to this day). The Equal Pay Act wasn't passed b/c of its…

My dear hero Miss Manners wrote that the polite person manages to say "how interesting" when what she or he really desperately wants to say is "baloney!"

I'm glad that you recognize that this attitude/talk/behavior is unacceptable, but I disagree that it should be taken "with a grain of salt." Boys who think/speak/act like this may grow out of saying and doing things as ridiculous as this, but the underlying attitude is likely to persist if that attitude is never…

I thought it was really mean. Why is the male default disgust instead of gratitude or simple joy when getting sex from a willing woman? I don't get it. If they don't want it and don't like it, why do they pretend that they do?

The fact that you can't see it as disrespect is the sad part.

How about this:

Sometimes people get drunk. It happens. Humankind has a love affair with altering our state of mind through drugs or fermentation, and that will never change. What will also never change is that it is no one's fault but the rapists that rape happened. If people are going to do something stupid in a civil society,…

Well, sluts only EVER talk about sex. Because that's all we know and we don't have brains!

That seems to be the NYT's usual M.O. when it comes to anything about cultural, fashion, or real estate "trends."

Nymphomania seems to suggest sex obsession to the exclusion of a natural rational state. Like sex addiction, but with a willingness to fuck everything that moves....

We're all who we are, though. Some of us love a lot of regular sex, and some of us could do without. It takes all kinds to make a world, and if I promise not to judge you, I'd really love the same courtesy - that's all.

But if your friends who move in together break up, doesn't it follow that it was better they were not married first?

I would call RAINN and/or check out their website, which will probably be able to put you in touch with local crisis centers. You could speak to them about the delicate needs of your project, and they likely have a spokesperson you can speak with first.

My first thought here is that the *reason* she dies really matters. Women get this kind of death in a lot of stories because of something that's symbolic but not materially dangerous to the status quo— something like sexual transgression in her personal life or as a sacrifice to balance the scales due to something a…

Not if you put, oh, an ounce of compassion and empathy into your thinking.