See, now, I think Sheetz looks more like James Hewitt... WAIT A MINUTE

“Mental capacity of a toddler” does not mean that he literally has the brain of a toddler. There are SO many adults with disabilities who have the mental capacity of small children who also have libidos and experience romantic and/or sexual attraction to others. I’m not saying that it was possible for her to obtain…

This is a complex question. The medical shorthand of “mental age” is extremely problematic and leads to statements like “He has the mental capacity of a toddler. Do you think a toddler should be “barred” from having sex?” [quoting another commenter in this thread]

A valid point. Having worked with adults with physical and intellectual impairments, sexual consent is nuanced and complicated issue. Just because a person is not of “typical” intellectual functioning does not mean they cannot give consent, nor should they be barred from participating in sexual relationships. The…

I understand this, but the truth is that someone having older parents is not a guarantee they’ll be lost earlier. People die all the time—my father died in his early fifties (and I was nineteen). It can happen earlier—and it will happen inevitably no matter how you slice it. It’s not great, but it’s reality.

“Summer camp special kid?!”

Salman Rushdie story, amazing. Reminds me of when a tire blew out on a bus we were on and my sleeping ex-infantry father dove under the seat in front of him faster than a cheetah.

When I was 6 I told my best friend Zoe that having sex meant getting naked and sticking you tongue in another person’s mouth and honestly that’s still how I have sex to this day.

I want to snark and make some silly comment about how I’m renouncing my internet presence for a more serious life of scholarly contemplation and that I’m actually a 75-year-old married housewife, etc...

Such a strange law! I can’t imagine the cognitive dissonance required to think that it’s possible to overserve someone. Is someone tying them down and forcing them to drink? Why isn’t it the patron’s lawful responsibility ..entirely?

You clearly can’t handle your drink. 7 cocktails is not too much. I wouldn’t drive after them but I wouldnt drive after 1.

—“You’re a FUCKING DOCTOR. Don’t tell me the washing machine is too complicated for you. Even if you can’t be bothered to mess with the settings it’s always on automatic, just press ‘start’.”—

Oooh, Gina Torres would be an amazing Ocean. Damn.

I know height-shaming is not the ultimate kind of oppression, but... you’re kind of overdoing it, and I say that as a tall woman.

Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield have ended their relationship after four years of deep, passionate love, and we were the last ones to know about it.

I dunno, being able to invent incredibly advanced androids by himself with year 2001 technology seems pretty special. It’s a wonder he ever bothered with theft when he could have become obscenely wealthy selling that technology.

The problem is that when Sorkin is brilliant he’s so fucking brilliant it makes the insufferable 95% of the time worth it.

Finally. For too long we’ve waited for Aaron Sorkin to write about a precious white dude who’s heroically right all the time, and difficult to be around because he’s so heroically right all the time - but he’s earned the right to be! - who struggles with a borderline-sociopathic need for everyone to love him because,…

Ugh, my little brother is definitely one of the 6.8 million. And he used to be very driven and very good at school. Honestly, I think he needs to see a therapist because I don’t think he can cut down. Also, one of his good friends killed himself this May and it obviously really hurt my brother and I think it made his…

I bought that on VHS in my flannel shirt, biker jacket and Doc Martin days. Sonic Youth seemed overly pretentious. I preferred the Breeders and L7.