Yes, dear, but you're not from Barbados either. You'll pardon if I take umbrage to my most famous countrywoman being claimed as someone else's national treasure.

Why do they keep trying to make Team Amber happen? It's never going to happen. (Because they're ALL awful people using double-standard gender constructs to take each other down.)

So every single gamer you ever met online has to show up at a public event in order to prove who they are? Wow, no. How about you just believe people when they so that they're a man or a woman? It's not like their gender affects you in any way, anyway. Also, how about women don't get treated by different standards…

Yes, this exchange spoke not only to the harm of sexual abuse, but also addressed how seemingly infallible and objective systems (created by men and power) do not get justice for the marginalized and require us to navigate injustice on our own. Given that the show functions within a legal framework, I thought her…

First off, like any good phenomenologist, I'm going to say that in matters like these, where we - as a species - are breaking new ground by describing and labelling the very meaningful experiences of a minority of people, quantitative data means nothing, so your pre-occupation with legitimizing GSA on the basis of…

Thanks. That explained some things for me that I didn't quite get succinctly.

I don't think OP was discounting that incest happens. I assume OP was just saying that GSA hasn't necessarily been scientifically proven/studied. We're reading an anecdote here, but that doesn't mean it's a genuine disorder.

You are the most sensible person I've read today—thank you.

Sorry, having to reach around a sleeping baby on a nursing pillow to type, so I wasn't writing as verbosely as I usually do. My comment was meant to say that while I do not have any personal experience with GSA, I absolutely believe it exists — if people who are raised as siblings can end up in taboo situations,…

I can't speak to numbers or percentages, but I can say I met my half-brother, who is three years older than I am, for the first time when I was 17, and I was shocked and horrified at how instantaneously I felt a very strong romantic attraction to him. I never considered acting on it—I just thought I was a gigantic…

What part don't you get?

I get you :(. Technically BDSM covers a whole lot, which does include lighter play because with D/s, it's all about the headspace, not the level of physical intensity and with the right person, cough *SO* cough, slow, romantic fucking where one is held in place tightly can be a hell of a kind game. That said, I'm…

They're kind of just "boudoir" photography - which is generally what the suggestive, often pin-up/mild S/M influenced aesthetic in couples photos are.

"On the very slim chance this exchange didn't just take place in your head, "

this x a million

and his hot driver.

The ward government says these certificates are equivalent to marriage. Do you say that? Does Tokyo's sexual minority community say that? Or is this another marriage knockoff, like civil unions - better than nothing, to be sure, and usually a stepping-stone on the way to actual marriage, but the fight's not over.

That's a very interesting point that you raise. But while anecdotes are not data, I have to say that in my experience I disagree.