Ha that's a good description of it. I used to tease my mom about starting in the middle of a conversation and expecting me to know what she's talking about.

No they're still married. I think that was pre-wedding. sorry!

In the summer of 2013, I had spent 8 Very Long, Very Hard years in graduate school and was a mere two weeks away from defending my Ph.D. My monogamous husband of 8.5 years went over to visit our closest couple friends' of 5 years house to drink and play video games while I worked on all of my dissertation shit.…

TIL: There's a pansexual flag.

Every time I read Sojourner Truth's early 1850s speech "Ain't I a Woman?" I'm also reminded that she was making an argument for women's rights based on gender equality, not gender difference. White feminists for many decades continued to argue the party line that gender difference, specifically women's supposed unique…

Nah, feminism's just significantly more full of awful than other movements. The lgbt movement didn't start today by treating my existence like it was rhetorical tool that exists just to justify the existence of a homophobic movement. But damn if a straight feminist didn't pull that shit today.

No. I'm not interested in your loaded questions, or in being some strawman you argue against. I'm one of the commenters most likely to point out homophobia on Jezebel and you think it's cool to rhetorically accuse me of homophobia? Wtf? I need less straight lady bullshit in feminism, not more.

Ok but like the insistence on beating up on anyone who doesn't use the label does actually cause a lot of division. It's stupid to think that social movements are incapable of making poor strategic decisions that result in fracturing or divisiveness that hinders their ability to actually change the world. Just because…

I will never forget playing SC1 on my old ass computer at the time. My 12 carriers with full drones would lag the crap out of it.

How about the fact that it contributes to a child's sense that they're never truly independent or free or even remotely trusted to be self-aware as beings?

My husband (who loves breasts, including mine) would be horrified to hear it, but I have contemplated and dabbled in binding myself since I was 14. I am a heterosexual cis woman who has never been comfortable with my breasts, which are somewhat large for my petite frame. My versions have included layered sports bras…

Is it bad that I exclusively buy StarCraft games for the campaigns?

Yes, I'm asexual and this line of reasoning makes me very uncomfortable for the reasons you mention. Also because some of us are, in fact, gay or bi. It's acting like there are no power differences within the asexual community, like it would weaken the cause to admit that an asexual person could ever have straight…

I don't feel like there get to be gatekeepers for who is allowed to say they feel queer.

The problem with the "evolution" argument is that the honest truth is that we evolved to be exactly the way we are as a population.

That reminds me of a science fiction story I read as a kid. I can't remember the title or author now (Shekley maybe? Simak? whatever) but it was about a guy who was feeling sad and wandering around until he came upon a broken down spaceship. Long story short it turns out that humans were actually meant to be the…

Tbh I always kind of side-eye heterosexual polyamorous relationships because I have never personally seen one that wasn't initiated by the straight male partner looking for other girls and his semi-insecure girlfriend just going along with it. Idk seems like it has a lot of potential to develop an unhealthy power…

idk, my totally uninformed opinion is that an Amber Rose lead slut walk might actually be better than the original slut walk

Did you mean Lindsey Graham in this scenario? Because that would totally make sense.