Marget Atwood once recalled that when she asked a male friend why men feel threatened by women, he answered, "They are afraid women will laugh at them." When she asked a group of women why they feel threatened by men, they said, "We're afraid of being killed."

Honestly, that's pretty much been my experience of femmes - that most are alternative in some way. If it isn't tattoos, or an alternative lifestyle haircut (normally shaving some part of their head), they're the fat girl in a sea of thin. (That one's culturally-specific, but my college town has mountains, and…

I think for me it's that... I'm not trying to impress straight men. At best, if I'm dating one, like once a month I'll think "would Steven think I'm exceptionally hot and screw me in the extra naughty way if I wear this?" But unless a straight person is offering me a job, I just don't care. But queer women, oh, holy…

I have such a goddamned crush on him based solely on his talent and intelligence.

#truedetectiveseason2

"Listen," said the parents and the school in a joint statement, "If this were an issue of a promising young football player playfully raping another student, certainly we could look the other way. But this isn't that. This is a violent crime of an evil teenager consensually having sex with a slightly younger teenager.…