They also have ceremonies for the dead, don't they? Or at least, that's what they seem to be from a human perspective...I remember hearing about elephants taking interest if they come across bones or remains of other elephants, touching them with their trunks and feet. The fact that they can recognize elephant bones…

Ironically, elephants form matriarchal family groups.

Here in Illinois, a lot of people (both those who liked him and those who weren't thrilled with him) were saying that about Obama when he announced his candidacy—that it was impossible for him to win, and it was just intended for publicity.

Yeah. Whether it's, "you can show your body and express your sexuality only to your husband" or "you can show your body and express your sexuality only when you've altered it and decorated it to fit our idea of what is appealing" it's only permitted under very specific circumstances designed to control it for the…

Ahh, gotcha. Yeah, that was what confused me. (Though lord knows race is a factor in our culture's limited beauty ideal. But I think we as a culture find it acceptable for a woman of color to show off her body so long as she's young, thin, conventionally attractive and doesn't look "too ethnic.")

The only point I was…

Tell that to the person who wrote an article about how bored she is with Rihanna's be-thonged arse.

So, you're saying...what? That Rhianna is ugly? Are we talking about the same gorgeous 25 year old here?

Of course female bodies should be as clothed or unclothed as they want, an idea I think is shared by this…

Female nudity is still shocking if the female in question isn't young, thin and beautiful.

Your comments on modern theater stop being taken seriously when you drag out the old "art is dead, kids today only want Jersey Shore crap and everything made today is shitty" line.

Gonna go ahead and guess her motive was the same as the motive for most of the WBC's shithead stunts—to get attention.

Don't really feel bad for the WBC, but you know this just strokes their rage boner.

Really, I think people who do shit like this and throw an "owning my sexuality" and "challenging taboos" onto it are just doing what they want to do and saying some words that they think will make it seem more noble/important/worthwhile than just...well, masturbation.

Kinda like how you can throw "I'm just concerned…

Fair enough. I can't really be sure what he was thinking...

Oh my God, yes please.

I was thinking that was probably more correlation than causation, since people who watch a new-comedy show are more likely to be interested in current events, and thus up to date on them through other sources. But then I clicked the link and saw it was really people who watched JUST the Daily Show that scored high.…

Yeah. I mean, really he's just accurately saying that in his industry he runs into a lot of people who view sex as a kind of validation and that that totally isn't healthy. Plenty of people, men and women, look at sex as validation, especially if they're having it with a particular kind of person. And it's not like…

Of course, many, many teams and universities have changed their names from offensive things to unoffensive things, and it hasn't changed anything.

+1

I seriously will never understand why the Celtics and the Fighting Irish are supposedly reasons that teams like the Chiefs and Redskins and so on shouldn't change. If you find the Celtic's team name so offensive, then isn't that just reason to change their mascot too?

BTW, have any Irish people in all of history ever…

Some of his phrasing here and there seemed a little obnoxious, but the only thing quoted that really sounded bad to me was him talking about his behavior with his ex (in the third block quote) But I also assumed he was saying that with some regret? Like "whoa, I fucked up that relationship"? Maybe I'm giving him too…

This may just be me, but I interpreted "haven't figured out their orgasms" as not knowing their bodies and pleasure responses—-a lot of women don't...a lot of men don't either. Either because of shame and repression or just assumptions about how orgasms are supposed to go. (I.e., some women assume women are just…

Also I mean liberal women are all supposed to be uggos, right? It's that whole feminism thing, it makes them slutty and mannish.