I agree that selfish intentions can still sometimes lead to greater good, but I also think such ambition can be dangerous. For every “immortal” man that did good unto the world while seeking glory, there’s a million more that sought the same glory and ruined it all.

This moral of this story flew right over your head, didn’t it? The type of people that fix world hunger or the energy crisis aren’t the type of people that want a federal holiday in their name. It’s a trend that bears out throughout history. Yes, there are exceptions, but that shouldn’t change how you feel about being…

Did you read the post? Girls already DO read plenty of books with male protagonists. Sheesh.

Perhaps if you read the article you wouldn’t have to ask stupid questions.

I think the article addressed this - girls are likely to read a book regardless of the target gender/protagonist gender but boys are highly likely to exclusively read male marketed books. So girls already do this while boys do not.

This! My brother devoured the Harry Potter books - he’s in his thirties - not because he loved Harry or Ron, but because he loved Hermione. I’m convinced that if my niece had been born after he started reading the books instead of before that he would have fought tooth and nail with his wife to name her Hermione.

Yet it’s never acknowledged that the studious dorks are the scariest people at a school for Wizards. Not only did Hermione master all the spells you know long before you did she probably knows dozens of other spells that you haven’t even heard of. Sure the killing curse is off limits, but chances are she knows a…

Let’s be honest, if your boys are enjoying reading Harry Potter, then they already enjoy reading books where the female lead is the main protagonist (and only competent character really).

We’re not talking about trans women having male privilege. We’re talking about a particular trans woman who is still stuck in her white male privilege frame. And it’s a perfectly accurate description of that one particular trans woman.

Hit the fucking nail on the head! All those years of privilege ain’t easy to shed.

I’m glad people are confronting her about her Trump support to her face. Caitlyn spent 60 years enjoying rich, white male privilege. Rich, white male privilege means not giving a shit about anyone else. That part of her will likely never change. #Sad #bigly

Her problem is, she still thinks like a rich white man.

yup, and the limited variety of female genitals they show in mainstream porn (mostly very young women who haven’t had much exposure to adult female sex hormones that mature external genitalia, so their genitals still look underdeveloped and as prepubescent as possible) doesn’t help that phenomenon.

You’re using inflammatory language. Gail Dines is a researcher, and a professor of women’s studies and sociology. She argues that violent pornography degrades women and distorts mens’ sexuality.

It isn’t for everyone..and for me it killed my sexual desire for my husband. and nearly ended the marriage. We haven’t had relations now for 15 of our 40 years together, because his addiction to porn ultimately made me averse to him physically. The porn relationship became far more important to him than I was.

Dude, if people drop this Tumblr nonsense, Democrats might win more elections, and we can’t have that! We need identity politics purity, dammit.

my experience has been that guys that get all weird and judgy about female genitals do it because they are severely insecure about their own junk and projecting about it, trying to make the women feel bad about themselves like they do.

Yes, THANK YOU. I loathe being referred to as “cis het,” by the logic of which you’d be referred to as “cis homo”? It’s an ugly hissy word and one the non-trans community didn’t choose. It’s also a misapplied term adopted from chemistry. So let’s just stop with it.

I would say though that the popularity of some fetishes (I.e. Rape) is affected by our society’s normalization of violence against women.

As a gay human being — and I do so hate frequently having to open with that — please allow me to speak for every other gay person on earth to grant everyone alive the freedom to STOP using “cis.” It is, I promise, absolutely OK to have the reader or listener grasp the fact that it’s not offensive at all and does not…