Do you know why people don’t come out until much later in life? What do you think the social landscape is like for gay men?

You don’t hear women claiming that we are held to unattainable standards of beauty, and you don’t think we ever have been? And you don’t think that dating apps make this unattainable female beauty standards situation worse for women?

What city/country/region do you live in? I would LOVE to move somewhere that women…

I do think a lot of this is about what women have been taught to want.

“Like we did for covid-19: there had never been a vaccine for a coronavirus before, we were told that it was next to impossible”

The biggest irony of Hansen’s disease and the long, cruel history of leper colonies is that the disease isn’t all that contagious. It does spread person-to-person, but it takes prolonged close contact, and the vast majority of cases are asymptomatic. The fact that most cases are asymptomatic is why quarantining was…

I am actually really troubled by many of those types of comments even when they are made by women. Thirst is one thing - and women have been barred from expressing it for a long, long time - but objectification is not okay, and one of thoughts I was trying to capture in my original comment. Men who pursue this will…

It’s not because of some “history.” It’s because men wield privilege and power that women don’t. Categorizing it as history relegates it incorrectly to the past. This is all still present.

tastes change. I started being into men too in my 30s. I don’t know if it’s anyone, and considering some of the old farts I know, it definitely isn’t, but for some people, age can help seeing through the bullshit conditioning and toxicity you were raised into. 20yr old me wouldn’t even think of it. 30 yr old me, yup…

You’re saying that lots of lesbians are only lesbians because they couldn’t attract men?  That seems... not based in fact.  

Maybe you feel this way because you think you deserve “credit” for being a decent human being instead accepting it as the baseline we all have to meet. Yeah, it’s hard being a respectful and kind human being but no one gets any fucking recognition for it. You do it because others deserve it as a basic human courtesy.

It’s an even trickier balance when a man is asking to be looked at. “He wants attention, he wants likes, there’s obviously something off about him,” says Bradley of the criticism he fields in comments threads.

“I don’t think a lot of people give a shit about what I have to say it’s just, ‘Take your shirt off and show us what you look like’...It’s assumed that I’m really fucking stupid most of the time.”

I know you put the word Leper in quotes but the word is very dehumanizing to people in the Hansen’s disease community. One of the biggest problems we have is the stigma against people in the Leprosy community and a lot of that stigma comes from biblical associations of the word Leper with people who suffered from the…

Has American ever been about human rights?  Ever?

Why, just WHY, did you use a photo of the Mouth of Sauron when there are perfectly good photos of Sauron from the flashback scenes of the war? My nerdy heart weeps because the Mouth was just so gross. Sauron in his battle gear was intimidatingly awesome, the Mouth just looks like he needs a root canal.

So who wore it better: Sauron or The Batman Who Laughs?

My son is obsessed with Squids and Krakens. In trying to find age-appropriate materials for him (he is 4 1/2) I have encountered some of the “tentacle stuff” out there. There is a pretty decent sized fetish zone going on.