Can this Overweight-But-Gives-Zero-Fucks sit with you?

Agreed. I try to avoid St. Patrick's Day festivities like the plague...AKA I am a lame.

Maybe they're responding to the explicitness of the gaze. It makes you hyper aware of your self and how you may be portrayed. Glancing at one another is fleeting - capturing that glance makes it something else - more concrete - people become more aware of themselves and other possible interpretations of them, and that…

Some people don't like being filmed, who knows? I've got friends that hide their faces when a camera comes out. But this woman over stepped when she continued filming when people asked her to stop, more so than just triggering reflexive camera shy people. It would be like you see this guy on the street and maybe you…

"Why do so many people have such an immediate and visceral negative reaction to being filmed? Do they feel like their soul is being captured by the evil magic box?"

Plenty of women have been stalked before and are uncomfortable being filmed by strangers. Some of us have more than one identity and want to keep their private life private. Some people might have warrants out. There are all kinds of reasons.

Does it matter if it matters or doesn't matter? :)

I hate being filmed. I work on Hollywood Bl. and I never sign releases, and if I see a tourist shooting video or a film crew I cover my face. A reality show came to film at my work and I asked for the day off so I wouldn't have to be on it. I have no rational explanation for it: I just plain don't like it.

I made a post on Groupthink the other day about privacy for the sake of privacy and how that concept is going out the window nowadays. I am the kind of person that treats my privacy as an opt-in to my information kind of thing - if I want you to know the information, I will choose to make you privy to it. This does…

Personal reason: My friend was a waitress at a mexican restaurant in college and was serving a group who took pictures with her and filmed her bringing them their drinks, pouring shots, etc. Turns out they were filming for a softcore porn. Poor girl found out like two years later through a casual acquaintance who told…

My ex boyfriend and I had gotten pretty used to a particular Magnum condom and if I was at the grocery store I'd pick em up if we were out. They must assume everyone with a large penis is suuuper tall because I always had to jump to reach them. As a chick I don't mind buying them but I could have done with out the…

I had to fight the urge to be embarrassed the last time I bought them.

Wait, the cashier doesn't dap you and play a little air-horn blast every time you buy condoms? They don't light up the "This Guy Has Sex" sign that hangs above the door for you?

I would recommend getting a bidet hose that hooks up to the toilet. I came across that particular setup while traveling in India, and man is it awesome. We called it the bum wash, but in addition to being able to give yourself a rinse, you can use it to spray the splatter off of the toilet as it flushes. I'm one of…

I debated whether or not to use an example. Eh, not completely success but such is life. I will say that we will probably never agree. Not because we can't further challenge each other's positions, but because we view the world differently. I don't think there's a right or wrong, but I do think it will be futile tbh.…

Michalik told reporters that children of divorce or broken families often "[seek] closeness with others and may get lost and may get the other person involved, too."

I've seen, like, maybe five brilliant anti-rape PSAs that absolutely nailed it. (the one below is still one of my favourites.) But there's one that I swear exists because I saw it on YouTube, but I can't find ANYWHERE now. I saw it maybe four or five years ago? But a while ago. It's either Canadian or American - sorry…

The sheer volume of people in an ikea on a Saturday is mind-boggling.

It's not an easy store to leave. Ikea's, to the best of my knowledge, were designed with the intent to make sure their customers walk through every last section of the store. Essentially, it's a maze of cool, easy to assemble furniture.

I mean, if the victim had in any way said that she didn't want to pursue charges, I would support her. But starting from the assumption that people shouldn't report rapes on the off chance that the victim might not want to press charges is too rapist-friendly a mental framework for me.