This is by far the best response. Considering where and how she was raised it is not surprisingly she has these views. It doesn’t make them excusable, but certainly understandable. Saying mean things about her doesn’t help anything. Aggression begets aggression. It is just terribly sad all around.

Sounds like that Principal could really benefit from a talk on respecting everyone regardless of differences.

They do. That’s why I never go anywhere where I’m required to be nude in public because “nervousness boners” totally happen and my greatest fear is that it will happen to me and it won’t just be a nightmare.

Your last point is an important one for surviving in academia, especially the sciences: brilliant people and great research opportunities are rare, and they may mean working with people who are not, uh, good at working with people. behavior that would be unacceptable in other environments might just be something you…

Note: I am not a woman and I don’t work in science, so feel free to make of this what you will.

That sounds like a pretty strong style, imho.

“Having a drunken stranger stalk you and show up in his underwear in your apartment is a beautiful thing!” He shouted at me. “Why are you treating it like it’s dirty?”

Oh he’s definitely a subscriber:

I can’t believe how inappropriate the school has acted, and is continuing to act, by telling people the kid has “bad character.” Look in the fucking mirror, dickbags.

The story about the cancer-free anniversary “date” is one of the most pathetic things I’ve ever read. That’s some Ralph Wiggum/Lisa Simpson shit right there.

If we wait for articles written by ‘authentic’ Nepali people on Gawker media, it wouldn’t be surprising if people forgot that Nepal exists.

NOTED. I don’t know what Shampure smells like but I will find out.

Thank god. I saw the headline and got worried for Millihelen.

One of my friends in high school was a hard core fujoshi (girl who loves Yaoi (anime or manga featuring gay men, it may or may not be pornographic in nature)). Most people were more weirded out by the fact that it was animated than the fact that it featured gay men.

Nah. I was with the article for the first half, until it got on the "male gaze" tip. Obviously, that's a reality of t.AT.u's act, but let's keep the weight of this intolerance in perspective.

Kinda strange that you can interpret her hateful intolerance toward male homosexuality as somehow benefitting men and oppressing women.

From what I understand, they were manipulated and coerced into representing themselves that way in the first place. They were both ushered into the industry by their parents, starting at 4 and 6 years old. They were picked up for the duo at 14 and 15 years old, and forced by contract to say and do things they did not…

I once tried to explain to a friend how I - and many, many other women - find the idea of two men together a turn-on. You would have thought I had grown a third head for the way she looked at me! I said, well, you accept that (straight) men are turned on by the thought of two women together, right? It's the same…

"Widows used to burn themselves in a great fire with their husbands' dead bodies; but the English government has forbidden them to do so any more; but their hard—hearted relations make them as miserable as possible."


No, my dear. They did not 'burn themselves' they were thrown bodily into the funereal pyre of their…