You really don't think it's that useful until you start having one on you. I know I've been glad to have my knife to open the new piece of electronics I've gotten right away instead of either waiting to get home or try prying it open with my fingers, the end result looking like a large animal had been chewing on it…

When I moved some time ago to another country I asked a few people what was the maximum length of a blade for a knife you could legally carry. This question was either laughed off or it freaked people out.

I've been writing unreasonably long and often slightly off-topic essays in comments the past few days as I procrastinate while waiting to hear back from a job interview. The ol' Asperger's is acting up and I understand if it doesn't come off as a very accessible form of communication.

My first language is Finnish, but I moved out of the country when I was seven and then moved around so I wasn't exposed to the language so there are some gaps in my vocabulary and some lack of understanding for how things are usually expressed in a more concrete way than in English. That may sound inconsequential, but…

Then the translator or the translated had a poor grasp if the language. Millions if not billions of people have managed to use gender-neutral pronous for ages to communicate successfully, without immediate knowledge about the gender of the owner of the table or the table from pronouns.

People should be able to admit to enjoying art that others fond problematic without intellectualizing the problems away - in fact everyone does, only certain things get are awarded the same scrutiny. I prefer a good film with the wrong message to a bad film with a good message, but would rather see more films that are…

The self-diagnosed autistic dudes are in general not that much on the spectrum (based on my precise metric of knowing others like me when I see them), but coddled Mommie's Little Geniuses who've been excused from thinking basic rules of consideration for other people apply to them, yet feel entitled to twice as much…

Somewhat related (and insomnia is a bitch): Ages ago I was studying Italian and a native English-speaker in my class was bothered by the fact that in Italian, the gender of the possessive determiner depended on the subject ("sua tavola" because tavola is feminine). He said something along the lines of: "But how will…

Considering the fact that the supposed subversive subtext is what separates the defenders of Sucker Punch from those who see it as a bad film, one might expect this type of subversion to be something the defenders look for in cinema elsewhere as well. But I think most fans of Sucker Punch would list among their…

When describing transgender people, please use the correct term or terms to describe their gender identity. For example, a person who is born male and transitions to become female is a transgender woman, whereas a person who is born female and transitions to become male is a transgender man.

I wrote about this when Jezebel did a post on Kitestring. Amusingly enough I saw a similar, but more practical app being written about in another Gawker media blog I can't find a link to now. But that one wasn't gendered, and really most technology is ill-suited for the real dangers that specifically women face.

Supporting and promoting academic research in gender studies instead of for-profit clickbait that gives these pathological asshats 10000 times the attention they had before?

On the one hand I agree with everyone writing to you to tell you to fuck off, but on the other I agree that this post of hers doesn't help anyone. The antagonism toward "fuckers who think they deserve a platform" in a piece that gives them 10000x the audience they had before should be indicative of the fact that the…

I know it's against my own point to even comment here, but I feel like someone should have looked at the forum in an academic context, not like this. The guys on this forum must be loving the attention. "We should all write manifestos" indeed. They got under the skin of a "feminist" - the quotes are there because even…

GI can be misleading as well. Although I wish it wasn't, so my cravings for bread from a far-away place could at least be dismissed as unhealthy. But as the slogan in this ad says: "It's hard, like life".

I'm not going to defend white bread, but going just by GI, rye bread shouldn't be much better, but it is.

Have you tried Tumblr?(NSFW)

Wow, you should re-post this comment again in a relevant circumstance because it provides valuable insight that the posts that go along the lines of "those barbarians are forcefully sterilizing transgender folk!", which is one example of the dominance of American voices you bring up (not that I don't support removing…

Can we not recognize both double standards: One shames people for what the act means while the other takes away the privacy of the act, which also leads to more shame. Men can jack off in piece, but that makes them losers, while women aren't deemed losers, but that's because they mainly do it for the enjoyment of…

I think you have to be a little sheltered yourself to be too judgmental about Kim K's naivete. What do they think would be a statement on racism from Kim Kardashian, someone who is not exactly associated with for deep thoughts and has never spoken up on the subject before? Do they expect reality stars with high-school…