The problem is that “culture” as the word is being used distills a broad range of artifacts that a person may or may not have participated in use due to a variety of social constraints. This amounts to cherry picking to defining one’s “culture” and ignoring much of how those artifacts may be the product of nationalist…

Don’t feel so bad about it in this case. You seem to understand that you use the term in conjunction with a idiomatic metaphor to describe a real event. Instead of, you know, something stupid like “Literally, I was drinking coffee this morning and I saw this guy eating a donut that had a sprinkled top and raspberry…

Who would have ever thought that “emo,” which used to describe a style of political hardcore in the 80s and 90s would be culturally appropriated by pop music fanatics to describe the lyrically and emotionally trite Harry Styles?

Yeah, I suppose I can’t change that wearing a cheap doofy looking oversized button-up shirt doesn’t make anyone look sophisticated.

I suppose you didn’t notice the women wearing t-shirts. Wearing a button-up does not make you a “grown up.” It doesn’t make a person look more sophisticated unless it fits well and is made of nice fabrics. Who the hell cares what anyone is wearing at this thing? Is that what’s important about this event?

Everyone? There are lots of t-shirts at that table.

Cool story.

I don’t think you meant to say “grown-up.” I think you wanted to say “person with money to spend on nice clothes” but your classism doesn’t recognize the difference.

No.

Projecting what? It’s just an observation that comes from being around human beings.

I don’t even care about if people date at work. But that expression about his “dick being good” is so horrible. Like, reducing relationships to something that is merely sexual is so backwards.

Your everyday dude is a creep in a different way. They just do a better job of hiding it or letting it manifest in situations in which they believe they have power.

Oh wow. Another song. It sounds like a song.

Yeah, I saw this years ago. But that’s just a slice of whomever purchases and uses these things. I kinda feel like creepy isn’t really the right word to describe these men. Like, I feel like your average dude is a creep but people let average dudes get away with it because they have the right looks, status, whatever.…

I like to go out into the wilderness to escape this kind of garbage.

I hate it when relationships are reduced to this: “No dude’s dick is that good.”

Is it okay to ask why you would prefer a sex doll over other means sexual release? I really don’t know anything about this or perspectives from people who would like one or already use one.

I’ve never even really thought how many of those dolls might be in use around the world. There’s so much surrounding this issue that I don’t know how to talk about.

Is that the market for these things? I’m really curious who buys sex dolls and why.

A lot of the comments to this article are a huge bummer. I think the issue of sex-ownership and the problem of undisguised objectification needs to be discussed. However, one of the driving factors of this market— interpersonal/social disconnection— and the reasons why men and women (or any combination) fail to…