Jezebel did have a story a while back about how men may suffer depression at an equal rate, but you can only tell if you start counting things like aggression and violent outbursts as symptoms. It made a lot of sense to me.

I'll acknowledge that it did get better, though even when the character became more developed I'm not sure how many people would pick up on the fact that she was supposed to be trans despite the abuse, not because of it. It felt a bit like the old "turned gay by sexual abuse" rubbish. To this straight/cis guy anyway.

Umm, trans characters being sex-workers, former addicts and the products of child-abuse? I guess that felt like a pretty stereotypical view to me, but then I'm a cis guy so perhaps there's some stuff I didn't pick up on. I did notice that they used the correct pronouns though, which I guess is a small mercy.

OK this shot shows the resemblance better.

When I first saw pictures of Leto in the role I honestly thought it was Walton Goggins in Sons of Anarchy. I haven't seen the film but the depiction sounds equally sensitive.

"The truth" is sometimes part of a larger narrative of people being so incredibly quick to discount rape and abuse victims. I'll admit, most of my scepticism comes from reading about epidemics of "false memory syndrome" and false rape accusations, which turned out not to be epidemics, but rather a few isolated…

I guess as a non-religious person that's always seemed obvious to me, and ultimately irrelevant. I don't give a shit whether they used religion as an excuse after the fact or performed the abuse because their superstitions told them to, I care about the abuse itself. Picking hairs about whether it's "really" SRA just…

Sure, but that doesn't mean that the abuse itself didn't take place, which is the contention of many people who dismiss SRA out of hand. Just because they weren't "true" satanists doesn't mean that we have to treat their victims as crazy.

And I recall that Ted Bundy read snuff comics, he only made it about porn when an evangelical preacher interviewed him before his execution and tried to twist something unrelated towards the preacher's anti-porn crusade. Kinda like you're doing.

Well no, it's not working. At all. That's why I worry about this kind of thing so much. My height is far from the only reason for my lack of success though, so I guess there's no point worrying about it. It's just frustrating that I have to either lie or have women assume I'm even less conventionally attractive than I…

I'm 5'9", what height should I put so that women don't think I'm lying?

Hmm, I dunno, wouldn't that come across as kinda defensive? Maybe if I list it as 7 feet 11 inches, or whatever the maximum is, then say my real height in my profile somewhere. Or do like a lot of women seem to with body type and just leave the field blank in protest.I guess women who care about 2 inches of height…

If women always assume that a guys is adding two inches to his height does that mean I should lie, because otherwise they will assume I'm 2 inches shorter than I really am? This is something I have spent a stupid amount of time worrying about, fwiw.

You were asleep at the time?

The juxtaposition of "tissues", "loneliness" and "man" in your description did not make me think were alluding to colds in your piece. I guess the author really is dead!

Curling is actually incredibly tense. Every shot is like watching someone throw a pass into the end-zone in American football, except in slow-motion for 10 seconds so you have plenty of time to go "Come on come on come on yessssss!" or "Nooooo!"

Of course dogs eat their own shit, so I'm not sure poop-based criteria really help dogs win over cats. Also in terms of being dangerous, dogs may not have toxowhatever but they can tear your throat out if they're so inclined. Well, some of them can. There's a reason you don't get muzzles for cats.

3 auto-playing videos? Really? That was a lot of applause suddenly blaring in my headphones.

They don't even have to understand it, they could maybe just accept that all these women aren't lying. That's what I did when I first started reading about women's experiences with this stuff. Us guys don't get it? Fine. That doesn't mean we can't moderate our behaviour anyway.