Exactly. I’ve slept with a fair number of women and they all liked different things. I’ve also slept with a fair number of men and SO MANY have “their way” of going down and get very offended when I ask to change it up - they usually insist other women have said they’re “the best” and so obviously I’m just weird.…

I bought a t-shirt there (on sale) last winter because it had a cheetah on it. It was so incredibly thin and poor-quality and it immediately became baggy and shapeless. I was stunned. I used to pick up both basic tees and the occasional cute one - I still have a shirt from years ago that’s held up incredibly well. I…

I’ve heard and seen this myself. I think if there was ever some magical study that did the numbers on how much partner sex people had and enjoyed versus jerking to porn, we’d see a huge decrease in one and increase in the other in this century.

Couldn’t agree more. It’s also hard to draw that line between your work self and your sexy private self when your boss will text you late into the night and you’re expected to check your email before you go to bed. You never really feel like you’re off the clock, so it’s harder to slip into sex mode. The dissolution…

I feel like I’ve seen a shift where men were thrilled just to see your boobs when fooling around, and now being completely jaded over anything less than a 3-ring sex circus. I know conventionally hot women in their 20s and 30s who will beg guys to come over and have sex and the guys are all “nah, I’ll stay home and…

She’s not for everyone - her style can be verbose and sometimes a bit academic, but on the whole she can write some very pithy sentences.

I feel guilty. My 2nd thought (my 1st was “oh for fuck’s sake”) was “I can’t wait to read Laura Kipnis’s book about this.” I love her writing and thought Against Love was just amazing.

Because her dom/master told her to, and without good public/private boundaries in place, she was used to obeying him everywhere. That’d be my guess.

That’s just deplorable. I’ve heard so many stories like that.

Agree. I’m in the scene and I believe strongly in the boundary between private and public. I’ve seen dommes humiliate their subs in a way that makes cashiers and servers uncomfortable, seen one dom spank his sub in a steakhouse while she squeaked “Daddy, no!” and have witnessed a man making his girlfriend/sub sit on…

I’ve seen many commenters say “But was it really rape, I mean, they’re married” so that message didn’t get through to everyone, unfortunately.

Are you saying that an anonymous soldier’s death has the same impact as Ned Stark? Different characters mean more to the audience and so does their suffering.

Yeah, writers can definitely be pretentious.

As a huge Adrienne Rich fan, that disappoints me. It’s one thing when Mr. Shiny Teeth from a CW show acts like a dick, but when it’s someone who you expect to be sensitive and compassionate - that’s a blow. If anything, she should have seen your effort as the touching compliment it was.

I don’t have interesting stories to go along with the encounters, but I can tell you that I’ve met Kristin Bauer (from True Blood), Scott Wilson (from The Walking Dead) and Jack Black and they were all kind and gracious.

Yeah, I think her death is pretty a much a symbol writ large of the fact that time period “killed off” women’s authentic selves. Women who chose (or had to) go the perfect wife & mother route and suffer through husbands like Don saw their freedom and future die. We all thought Betty would read The Feminine Mystique…

He admits that to him, not working is the only time he gets bummed out or depressed. And so he never doesn’t work.

I’m not a royal watcher and I was never particularly fascinated with Princess Di - but I do feel sad she didn’t live to be a grandmother. I bet that would have been adorable, Diana and her little granddaughter.

She should have had a hot final fling with Tag, then moved to Paris alone.

Thanks. A friend of mine is getting raked over the coals for wanting a divorce from her husband, who’s transitioning. Their kids (all grown) are treating her like she’s a monster and saying things like “You obviously never loved Dad or this wouldn’t matter. You’re selfish.” But she doesn’t want to be married to a…