His side of it is almost apparent already. His course’s final project has valid context, but it’s really easy to misunderstand without some experience with philosophy or visual culture, and with just fine art as a reference - like knowing people paint from nude models. The short explanation is that this isn’t about…

I can verify definitively that it is, however most people’s only point of reference is how art classes sometimes hire nude models. This project is quite different in its aims, and explaining it fully means a mini novella as a response, and I’d like to spare people that. The people who are calling him out for being…

I’m not disagreeing with you, but this and erotic art is different, and the difference is important if your argument is workable. Erotic art and the nude self etc are about the naked body - the emphasis is on the human shape. What he is doing is about the lack of clothes. Yes, I get that sounds like the same thing.…

Since “perverse” is such a hard accusation to discredit, I kinda hate that it gets slapped on these people so easily. So far we have more reasons to think this is a philosophical artist than a perv, and yet because he’s a guy and it involves naked girls, he’s getting this almost automatically. I think it’s unfair…

To be your authentic, real self, could be accomplished almost as easily by insisting everyone present wear plain black clothes, or some other negating outfit to remove the “costume” element of clothing. I think that’s his intention, but he picked the hardest way to make it happen. Admittedly, there’s a bravery and an…

I find that comparison really striking.

But we trust the person being proposed to to know their own mind without imposing a delay on them before they answer their potential fiancé (usually!). We let them begin the marriage process, trusting that they’ve thought about it before, before applying, and leave it to them to back out when they choose. The…

I could get on board with that, too.

Actually, yes, I fully support that legislation!

The pattern I was hoping to describe was scenarios in which we give most people the benefit of the doubt that they’d thought about it up until the point of doing something. For example, this is at the point of proposal, just between the couple, which assumes (at least for many!) that the person you’re proposing to has…

That 72 hour wait is ridiculously condescending. Like, imagine if it were state law to wait that long for all major decisions. Will you marry me in 72 hours? I’m sorry sir, you cannot buy this camri until you’ve waited 72 hours. We need you to think over your vote for 72 hours. That haircut will need 72 hours of…

To understand why being a single mom or a poor person etc is not due to bad choices or laziness (not the vast majority of the time) takes a certain amount of normal mental juggling to understand, like you have to keep in mind a lot of issues and scenarios at once instead of resorting to the easiest explanation (the…

Yeah hey? These guys are the enemy...either not team players, or normalizing a bar of work ethic that’s totally toxic for everyone.

I could totally be wrong, but what I got was that the initial study posits men are better at it, and this article was trying to explain how it isn’t a gender thing, but a circumstances thing.

I’ve worked for a pizza chain (it was a dark time). Anyway! I can answer! The people making the pizza don’t know you tip well in most places, but also there is often not a typer message option for the screen they read off of (like it says no pineapple, but only the person who entered the order gets the specifics a…

This forces a poor pizza craftsman to be party to our mischief. If divining exacts a spiritual toll, poor pizza kid is paying up.

I love this gif, a Kinja classic. It just conveys so much with so little. But I’m desperate to know now, does anyone know which Floridian pissed off Buggs?

Imagine if all the great witches and wizards could have been taken down with one properly-aimed rock.

It might not work with the cultural climate. For example many cultures insist on preserving the hymen until marriage, and while my beloved Diva Cup does not always ruin the hymen, it is a significant risk. The girls themselves may not go for it, likely not being used to tampons already. Finally, they would make a…

I am totally wishing that for you, fingers crossed! That exact scenario sounds marvellous, that’s exactly what I want to happen. I’m bummed over a guy that didn’t happen right now, so if you run into him again and it works out (I think it could!) then you’ll have to tell us about it, it would cheer me up to hear about…