Sex with a hot person can still be bad sex. Sex with a less-hot person can be amazing sex. There’s no 1:1 there

The reality of sex, once you’ve had a lot of it, is that as good as it is, it is never, ever worth enormous, friend-ruining turmoil for a one-time fling.

Hooo-boy. Having had a lot of poly- vs. monogamous conversations in the last few years (and particularly the last year for some reason) with friends and lovers for whom I wasn’t particularly suited in the end (good sex though), the one aspect of poly-rhetoric that still rubs me wrong, and may be doing so for others in…

The fact that this randomly encounterable level just spells “My wife left me” with coins, then has you jump over a hole, is hilarious.

It’s incredible you managed to type this with a Pilot.

It’s incredible you managed to type this with a Pilot.

The Pilot G2 07 is the pen of choice. Never trust anyone who uses a 05.

The Pilot G2 07 is the pen of choice. Never trust anyone who uses a 05.

Yeah, that likely came off more accusatory than I intended. As long as you’re self-aware about your criteria, your reasons for them, and open to them maybe — maybe — being broken, no one can fault you for having them, whatever they may be.

It’s cool that you approach it with empathy too — I’ve just seen cases where…

5’8”-ish guy here. I’ve heard it, both in regards to me and as a general requirement from women. I think it’s silly because I’ve always maintained it can be overcome in personal interaction, but what’re ya gonna do?

5’8-5’9 (not really sure, but I feel like I’m on the shorter side of average) guy here. I’ve never understood guys’ reservations about taller girls. I feel like you’d be cutting off way to much of the dating pool.

Which is also why I think it’s kind of rough that reporting heights and very set standards have become a…

This is me. I don’t want to date someone who, just by nature of their stature, makes me feel huge. I already have enough body image issues without that added stress.

"over months"

"sometimes you have to follow a hunch."

Between "bae," "turnt," etc. here, and "twerk" on last year's list, I was actually more upset by the weird social ignorance of including so many words co-opted from black culture into white.

Reeeeaaally not sure about that. I feel like the socially acceptable/healthy responses to a cheating partner are: 1) Break up with that partner. 2) Move on with your life. And that's about it.

I haven't seen any that say that. It feels like in any in-depth article on it I've read (so, basically, the critical ones), they separate out real causes for concern early so that they're free to examine how the roots of this particular movement are steeped in, and how it continues to tolerate, hate.

You also didn't need that third sentence, though.

The police can't shut down a stupid Twitter movement. Other people speaking out against it can. This needs all the negative attention it can get.

I'm pretty sure it comes up in every one of these articles (it sure as hell was in Deadspin's excellent take-down yesterday) and in every comment section, that the issues this loose movement is focused on are those of only the pettiest, most grassroots kind, ignoring all the AAA publishers' lording access over their…

Essentially a system of anonymous message boards that have grown into a sort of hydra to which the most malcontent, young and easily impressionable Internet-users are first pointed when delving into anonymous spaces.

So you end up with something that's hyper-reactionary and incredibly easy to mobilize, especially when…

Between this and the miasma/Ebola essay, Gawker has been on fire on all sides today. This was an excellent, excellent take down of the movement, of American fearmongering and culture wars, and of toxic ideas about journalistic integrity when two sides of inequal merit are given equal sides (this was drilled into me…