Pretty sure CKO67 is an MRA troll pretending to have sympathy for rape victims.

Nope. You're right. I'm pretty sure the image is linked to the search phrase "decidual cast" but has nothing to do with the actual thing. Regardless, I'd like to bleach my eyeballs.

Ooh chile, don't even start me on vomit. Ever have the period shits and the stomach flu (or a hangover) at the same time? It's like the lower half of your torso just fuckin' hates you. You're gooey and leaking from ALL ENDS!

Oh god. Oh god ohgodohgod. I googled "decidual cast" and the fourth image result had arms and legs and a head. The second was the exact shape of a uterus. I can't unsee that.

Have you ever just kegeled a big gloppy chunk out? I can do that sometimes and I find it so satisfying.

HoBoYaNo: She's so sensitive when we behave like irrational assholes to her. Time to start yelling!

Not all gun owners.

Aren't we agreeing, then? You seem to have come around and answered your original question, which was "Is it trolling?" You said that they're using a "jarring" cover image and "intentionally being provocative" to make sales, which is another way of saying "trolling for attention." The image is jarring, particularly…

Yup, I agree with you, and I already acknowledged that pennants are associated with higher ed. But visual imagery is absorbed and understood differently than language. It's more intuitive, associative, and subconscious. Visual imagery is used to bypass language and thought to appeal directly to emotion. Marketers…

It's an issue of symbolic imagery, and the way the cover is laid out. Honestly, I don't know if it's trolling, or if their graphic designer ain't shit.

Individuals participate in in-group behavior, interpersonal communication is limited, binaries provide a rational means to compare general differences between groups, and we're a social species. Anyone who doesn't wish to "partake" (I think you mean "participate") in "thoughtless" binaries and just be treated as an…

I'd be very interested to see how those colors wind up looking on the skin.

I was going demur and say that male anger manifests through different social venues and across different groups when you break them down by race or class or favorite hobby or whatever. But then I realized that it can all still be summarized by "dick-measuring contest."

They're mostly 17-20 year old white boys who live in their mom's basement. They can find neither jobs nor girlfriends because they have such terrible personalities. They come to the internet to unleash the full force of their under-developed reasoning and prejudices.

This guy sounds, oh I don't know ... abusive. Like you know how abusers make their partners cut off contact from their friends? This dude wants women to cut off contact from their own goddamn children. It's that whole "I'm the only person you can trust" thing.

This guy sounds like a fucking terrible father.

That doesn't make it any less shitty an morally bankrupt.

There's probably some kind of alcohol in there.

I could go off on a long rant about car culture, but I won't because right now I'm just sad that this poor fuckin' kid is gonna end up going down as just another statistic, just another bump under someone's front tires that repeats 4.5 minutes in the US. But only a supremely insulated society could produce a woman so…

Ugh, Kate, the makeup artist in me wants to fight you. I used to work for Bare Minerals. It does matter that a ton of Bare Minerals magic is marketing, because it's a poorly run company that doesn't treat its employees well. It's got the same toxic retail environment as every other chain store, with a revolving…