Definitely. I'm not sure how it is everywhere, but here, we have a 12 year old and and 16 year old who have gone through various stages of sex ed, and yeah, they saw the ol condom on a banana trick, but they left with more questions than they had answered. And their (single) mom, who is a great person otherwise,…

Maybe I'm an enormous hippie or something, but I wouldn't really see the problem even if sex ed did teach kids "how to bang." I mean, obviously, direct tips for how to give head or whatever would be silly, and probably counter-productive since different strokes and all, but I would hope the education at least would…

When I'm out with my wife, (I'm a white guy, and she's foreign-born Vietnamese), we get TONS of side eye, and it only ever comes from two groups: white women and Asian men. As a white guy, I have the luxury of not really giving a shit, because really, what difference does it make to my day-to-day, but it's super…

I have no issue admitting that I'm terrifically afraid of spiders.

My whole family just looked at me like I'm a maniac. Thank you for that.

Yeah, except that's entirely untrue. Even the more actiony ones like First Contact had more complex themes.

Seriously. This article made me think, "Have I gotten so old that Urusei Yatsura is considered obscure?!"

I'm sure everyone is exhausted with responses like this, but every still shot, promo image and trailer I see for this makes me sadder as a Trek fan. Which is a shame, 'cause this might very well turn out to be a fun action flick. I just wish they could make these movies without the Trek name and design cues (of…

Automatic rifles are already illegal. No ban is necessary.

Aw, be fair. Californians at least know as far as Humboldt. That's where all the weed comes from!

It's not really a rational fear. Part of it is aversion to do something "crazy people" do and part of it is her family, who have a very old world mentality and are especially judgmental about the women. She's terrified that someone in her family might find out, and then she'd be forever branded the crazy girl. The…

Thanks! It can be a rough situation (rougher on her, of course) when it happens, but what can you do? You can be supportive and encouraging and persistent, but in the end of the day, you can't force someone to do something like this.

People like low effort thinking. It allows them to easily assign blame and take action without having to consider things like poor mental healthcare, social stigmas of seeing a "shrink," family inattentiveness, etc.