Wouldn’t it be *better* to have your peak years in your teens and twenties? The data they presented show men and women switch places around the age of 35 - in their mid-thirties, men become more frequently pursued than women of the same age.
But....doesn’t that mean it’s better to be a woman? More than 60% of all…

You guys are reading the data inaccurately. All it says is that women get more interest at 18 - that doesn’t mean they get interest from 50 year olds.

Would be roughly as imperialistic as depicting the Han version of a story originally told by the people the Han conquered and subjugated. The only difference is that white people don’t know anything about China. In the orientalist progressive view (as opposed to the orientalist conservative view), imperialism is a…

I’m not doin’ your homework for you, but Chen Sanping is the right place to start. 

From earlier prototypes of Wei songs — the line in Mulanci is already post-incorporation into Han writing, of cours

Okay I can agree to that.

Oh and just to avoid my own imperial mischaracterization - the general consensus among in-the-know scholars is that the Mulan story likely comes from the Xianbei people in a more dispersed manner. Sadly, no one really speaks Xianbei Mongolic anymore.

Oh, also...I hate to tell everyone this in case the “Mulan is just an imperial appropriated story as well” thing didn’t already ruin it - Liu Yifei is widely considered one of the worst Chinese actors, if not the very worst one to reach her level of fame. The insider story is that there were more than a few favors…

It will serve the neo-imperial racial politics of the Chinese state rather than the neo-imperial racial politics of the American state? Hooray for progressivism! 

Of course, Mulan comes from a Mongolian story. The fact that it’s something we’ve received as a Han Chinese story is purely a function of Chinese imperialism. So...let’s find someone who can do it in Mongolian. (Which...I mean, that would be absolutely awesome!) 

Periodic reminder that Mulan is not originally a Han Chinese story about defending the empire from Mongols, it is a Tuoba Wei Mongol story about defending the Mongols from the Chinese, which the Chinese empire appropriated. This is more or less the same as if you had a white woman playing Pocahontas in a story about…

I criticize a lot of articles on Jez, so let me just say this: Amen. It is terrifyingly stupid that anyone has any problem with a woman breastfeeding anywhere. The recreation of life is the most remarkable thing our species (and, uh, mostly its women) does and the idea that public space should force mothers to…

No one ever asks them for an explanation. We just make Call Me By Your Name and call it beautiful. 

‘That’s a bing-o’ 

Just gonna throw this out there....most of my gay male friends had their first experiences with older guys.........most......

I mean, come on guys. Does anyone think we’d get a long rambly sort of understanding article if we found out Ben Shapiro was banging a teenager? No. We’d just say “that’s gross and he is a gross person and screw him”.

Not made up at all! Jez’s article on Bowie ended basically on ‘I don’t want to talk about Bowie, I want to talk about how cool these girls were/are’ and Jez has continued to say nice things about DB any time he comes up. That is not treatment extended to, say, Louis CK or...well, literally or anyone else who came out…

Also...yes, this is the jez article I meant. I don’t know if we read this differently, but I don’t see any “David Bowie a Roy Moore-esque” monster in here - just “let’s not talk about Bowie, let’s talk about how the girls are empowered”. And Jezebel has subsequently published lots of nice words about DB, which I don’t…

Yeah dude, Mattix is not the only one, nor the 13 year old. 

“Hit me [up]” was definitely a common phrase in the 90s.