Disregarding the negative societal weight certain "consensual" sexual activities carry with them, especially when performed in public, before a society that uses said representations to farther push down a disenfranchised social group, is not "fundamentally positive", healthy, or constructive. Cultural myopia does not…

I'm referring to trying to bolster your fledgling career by sucking a porn star's dick as whoring out. Porn, in and of itself, is not whoring out. What the author is doing is.

You're right. "Generally" all of those things are true. But there are shades of gray in both sex positive approaches and feminism. Not all people who describe themselves as sex positive are going to be of the same opinion all the time, same as feminists. The original poster isn't saying that what Tisdale is doing…

Sorry, but being sex positive does not carry a requirement to wholeheartedly endorse anything and everything consenting adults choose to do with their bodies. You can be sex positive and still choose to express negative opinions and stunts like this.

She's not a porn actor. She's a shitty comedian sucking dick for attention. That's whoring yourself out.

I really like the part where a parent drinking with their underraged kid is inappropriate, but being ok with your daughter whoring herself out is progressive. I'm all sex positive and all, but jesus fucking christ

So gay marriage in all 50 states would instantly add to the marriage pool and fix the economy. Sweet.

Ah yes, the old "poor people can't be that poor, look at how fat they are" bullshit. There is a strong correlation between poverty and obesity in our country. The cheapest food that lasts the longest is the shittiest food for us. Poor people who live in food deserts cannot afford to run down to the store for fresh…

You're ignoring that most of the big-ticket items have skyrocketed. Housing, college tuition, and health insurance are all far more expensive than 30 years ago.

File under "duh". Halloween is my favorite for two reasons: it actually encourages creativity and no moral virtues are involved. Sure, it began as a religious thing, but no one is reminding you as you're scarfing candy in your Batman getup, to remember the spirit of giving or some guy who died for you and then became…

When people tell me they're "just not that in to" Halloween, all I hear is static. Does not compute.

Housing prices, heating oil, petrol, cars/transit have increased dramatically. Food ain't the only thing we need to survive.

Halloween is a superior holiday. People who don't enjoy Halloween are typically people I do not understand.

It's actually not- look at the chart year, with data taken from the US Census:

One confound is that people with more money are more likely to get married. I.e. you're not poor because you're single, you're single because you're poor.

Uh... you know what else they could do to raise consumer spending, of course.

The rise of double-income households is one of the reasons wages have been able to slip as far as they have. But this study sounds like it doesn't control for anything except age.

If two people are splitting the fixed bills, like housing, utilities, etc, they each have more disposable income. However, if everyone was paid the equivalent to the average salary 4 decades ago, you would have that disposable income to spend without needing someone to split the bills.

“Married Americans spend more than the average American in part because they have higher-than-average income. Single Americans spend less, in part because they have lower- than-average incomes.”