Yes, exactly.

Someone once told me that in one of their college classes, the instructor asked them all to close their eyes and then guided them through some kind of meditation exercise. It lasted probably less than 5 minutes and afterwords the instructor asked for comments from the students about the exercise. A student raised…

My favorite part was “I am consistently committed to empowering marginalized voices and believe that many individuals have been heard in the last hours and days that would not otherwise have had a platform to weigh in on this important discussion.”

I started watching the Kardashians’ show expecting to hate them, but I love them. Makes me wish I had sisters. Glad my mom isn’t Kris Jenner though.

Wait, their faces are covered by stickers? This zine, then, is not about her exes but about her own desirability, in general. A vanity project in the most narrow sense. At least Kim K isn’t trying to pretend her book is something other than what it is.

I feel like the examples of “saying it tactfully” are more examples of not actually saying it at all. One woman’s variation on “make yourself at home” is another woman’s “I’ve contemplated that you may want to bone in my guest room and have made peace with it.” It would creep me out to have my host give me…

Okay I agree wholeheartedly that being overly demonstrative with PDA is rude as hell whenever other people are present. However, if someone feels awkward about the idea of a couple discreetly having sex in the guest room with the door closed, they should not allow that couple to stay at their house.

This is exactly my question. Why do they think sex has to be messy? Further, why do they think it is always loud? Why would any host believe their guests’ sex is about them in any way, shape, or form? Why would they know about it in the first place?

I usually say that or something extremely close to it to my houseguests, and I never mean to imply anything about whether they would/could/should have sex. It has never crossed my mind that they’d be waiting for a signal from me. Perhaps this is true of your host as well, and the permission to get down isn’t so clear?…

Hang on, have you ever been party to a scenario wherein a host is like “clean towels are here, feel free to help yourself to the wine, and you may have sex in the guest room tonight!” That seems crazy to me. I would find it so creepy as a guest, and as a host I would never say something like that because I would never…