Also, thanks for your very informative comment on race and sexuality and for your insight/opinions! I'm too tired to respond with something more substantial, but I read what you said and it contributed a lot. You are fly.

I'm Jewish too. My synagogue is totally queer-friendly, as are most synagogues that I've been to, but I know a remarkable number of Jewish grandmas who get stereotypically whiny and critical when their grandkids are gay because they don't make Jewish babies the traditional way. Disappointing, yes, and probably the…

I saw Cady Heron wearing army pants and flip flops, so I bought army pants and flip flops.

This article kind of goes all over the place, and I don't really get the point that it's trying to make. Like, what's so refreshing about women being gamers too? I feel pretty apathetic to that, and if the benefit of such a discovery is to establish gender equality, it's pretty baseless considering that the statistic…

That's exactly what I was thinking.

For some warmer, fuzzier feelings.

...Hmmm. I don't want to condemn this woman, because of course we didn't witness the events that transpired, and she's probably devastated enough as it is. But if someone is holding a puppy to their chest, what do you think is going to happen if you shoot at the dog? That really doesn't seem like the actions of…

I've always disliked Amy's column. She's overly judgmental about trivial details, and her alleged advice is all-too-often useless. Does anybody listen to Wait Wait Don't Tell Me on NPR? I hate when she comes on. I think the other cast members of the show like her, but she basically just repeats other people's jokes…

Yeah, I wasn't even seventeen yet at the time, about to graduate high school (I was graduating early, because of how much everything at home sucked) and just going through the worst time of my life. It's not just his death that made me so sad, but how it kind of represents how horrible everything at the time in my…

I think my roommate is still probably closer to your boyfriend than to you, though I don't think he suffers from BDD. I think his maleness is very deep-rooted and I don't believe that he feels genderqueer. I think he simply considers himself male but he just doesn't equate it to his physical body parts very strongly.…

Haha oh God. Hearted. But even that's not fully representative of how heartily your comment made me laugh.

How did you know him/in what context did you hang out with him?

I just giggled toooo loudly.

They weren't blatantly racist before?

I'm so sorry, for your loss and for everyone here who experienced a pet loss. My 4-year-old cat died last April, and I can't tell the story without crying. We had to put him to sleep and I feel terribly guilty about it. But, even if it's sometimes hard to feel it, death is a part of life and you shouldn't feel guilt…

Courtney's Christian values and faith continue to be a factor in this bizarre story, as she knew that if she "kept [her virginity] I would be blessed with a beautiful gift. And God did — he blessed me with my soulmate."

I see your point, and I think I agree with a lot of it—that it won't be treated as a civil right until people believe that it's biologically inevitable. However, I do worry that we won't be able to find a "gene" for it (not because it necessarily doesn't exist, but because our scientific understanding of genes just…

Thanks for your input. That's really interesting. Do you feel that the trans community necessarily takes more comfort than the gay/lesbian/bi community in the idea that they were born this way, though? You could be right, but I do think that many gay people have just as much difficulty accepting themselves as…

Thanks for your insight. I don't get to hear from too many people with similar backgrounds to you, so that's interesting. Do you think that your opinion on homosexuality was more malleable because you were younger, though? I'm not sure if an adult deeply set in his or her religious ways would be so open-minded as you.

Why would proving homosexuality to be genetic be so beneficial? What progress does that discourse incite? It's not like religious bigots are suddenly going to succumb to scientific logic for the first time ever.