What a wonderful and thought-provoking essay. As a gay man, I've had to come to terms with my feelings and attitudes towards male bisexuality over the last few years, and it's always great to hear from someone with a personal experience rather than my own outsider's view.

Thanks for this. As a bisexual woman who's been politically active in LGBT civil rights, the cultural erasure/invisibility of male bisexuality is very close to my heart. To me Oberyn had the potential to be a truly revolutionary character. I loved him for his openness and utter lack of apology for his sexuality, and…

I've actually written about the topic before, but the whole thing with Kickstarter is with the right projects in the right hands, it's actually just an extension of all the old ways of fundraising. Specifically, for indie film projects, where investments in the sums needed to make a good film just don't exist through…

They've said a lot that their primary goal is to get Reading Rainbow to any kid that wants it, in whatever way is best for that kid. After they reached their goal their email to backers said any additional money would be spent just trying to reach more kids. So yeah, there's a subscription fee. But I can nearly…

Literacy Jesus for the Win.

The current theory appears to be that your story is common. If properly equipped to benefit from a text, the kids will be hooked by what they apply those skills to. I might not necessarily be long-form contemporary fiction, but that's a largely twentieth century preoccupation anyway.

"...PBS and co-producers at WNED Buffalo 'believed that the show was no longer the best way to teach kids reading skills.'"

That's what kills me — people have thrown SO MUCH money away on silly ill-conceived Kickstarters that startup weirdos dreamed up as get-rich-quick schemes.

Yeah, there's that whole ridiculous thing in there about how low-income households use cellphones the most for the internet. That has nothing to do with the desktop app, because it's not being distributed for free to the low-income households, it's being distributed to schools, which will presumably have desktop…

A huge part of the Kickstarter project that the Washington Post editorial completely ignores is putting the app in schools for free—-1500 schools if they make their goal, probably many more since they've already hit 1.9 million. To read the editorial, you would think that wasn't even part of the project.

Yeah, sure, and how many Kickstarters are for non-profits? I, for one, knew what I was getting in to, and am happy to pay $50 for a Reading Rainbow mug. If a portion of that money goes to help kids love reading, and bring back one of the best shows ever, all the better.

I was out for my birthday last Saturday night and was out dancing with my friends. Literally in just our little circle dancing away to some cheesy 90's music. Some guy came up behind me and just would not stop groping me. I removed his hands and said 'No' at least 4 times, eventually I just moved to a different part…

Imagine a campaign to get cars to look twice for motorcycles before changing lanes. What if a car driver got upset by that and said "NOT ALL CARS HIT MOTORCYCLES!!!1!" Like, duh, but it's still an important message, and your reaction makes absolutely no sense.

This is definitely related. That this language is acceptable and that the treatment he received vs what she received supports exactly the type of culture that makes women fear relying on the very systems - schools, media, police - that reinforce the primacy of Prince Shembo's reputation when they were really supposed…

I have nothing new to add other than that a guy that attempted to sexually assault me in high school ended up becoming a cop. Blech.

You always put it better than me.

"Men need perseverance. Many lack this quality."

Going to the gym, eating well, not drinking oneself to death doesn't mean you can't still be a douche.

"They live in the gym, eat well, don't drink themselves to death, read, work to advance in their careers, etc."

My favorite part of this whole thing when I saw it pop up on Reddit originally is how he got his ass smaaaaaaaaaaaaaaacked down by basically every single commenter. That was just glorious.