As much as it annoyed me when I would try to, say, go to the post office in Europe and a "out for lunch" sign was on the door with no return time and the doors locked I was mostly like, respect. I wish we were so laid back about our slavish work schedules in the US. And a lot of western European countries have like a…

You know what? I really hope they don't do this. I don't want other countries to emulate our ridiculous work schedules. They suck. They are awful. They are inhumane, frankly. I just don't want them to go there. I want some parts of the world to retain some sanity about buying things.

Fuck this. One of the nicer things about certain parts of Europe was Sunday being a family day, or one where most of the workers were assured of a day off. Sure, it's probably religious in origin. But it benefited everyone.

I think we know it, but a lot of people just don't "get it" because they're not used to seeing it. So, yeah, the average woman may look like this, but there'll be plenty of people who believe that if they had more money or better genes, they'd look like the photoshop version.

of course we know airbrushing is a thing. What we don't know is what our bodies will look like after a certain age. I'm in my late 30s and became depressed when my body started looking different. My old bf would make fun of my naked body and would say it didn't look normal to him. That was 3 years ago and I have not…

This gif is perfection.

HER STOMACH LOOKS LIKE MINE!!!! HER THIGHS LOOK LIKE MINE!

The "worst" (relatively speaking) part of that photo is the preventable sun damage. You'd think a super model would take better care in that regard. However, she still looks smoking and her face is GORGEOUS.

I haven't. I'm just active in my local BDSM scene. I'm a college student and I'm actually hosting a discussion about BDSM later tonight as part of my school's LGBT club. The kicker is that the email sent out to the club said we'd be talking about "BDSM and 50 Shades of Grey." I wasn't planning on mentioning 50 Shades,…

That's understandable, and I don't think any criticism of the book has anything to do with women finding their sexual awakening. It's just that BDSM is portrayed so badly in these books that there's no way it can be considered an accurate representation.

That's a good point, and something the New York Times' AO Scott brought up in his review of the movie. To paraphrase: if the book had been more sophisticated, it wouldn't be accessible to the people who would be least likely to feel comfortable asking for kinky sex stuff. It's revolutionary partly because it's so…

"Perhaps most unrealistically, its male protagonist is a 27-year-old man living in Seattle who wears ironed shirts, cleans his room, and has his shit together."

"I think she likes sex already."

Oh, and would you look at that. I certainly hope you got a fair amount of followers for your hard-hitting piece.

That's a good point, but at the same time I think trying to equate animal intelligence and consent is a bit of a fuzzy area too. I mean, animals consent to mating all the time— or at least assent to it.

Also I do disagree about the Jezebel spin. This is the first article I've read on Jezebel that actually approaches a complex and "icky" (or is it "icthy"?) sexual matter without being judgmental. Kudos for that.

i do think it's complicated, and if this interview strikes you as me playing him for laughs then we're going to have to agree to disagree

Mmmmm normally i'd agree (especially where sheep, dogs etc are involved) but this isn't the only story i've seen about a dolphin trying it on with a human, and i do agree it'd be pretty damn hard to rape a dolphin unless you strap it down or something.

I don't know...I'm not that well educated about dolphins, but I think I actually agree with this being a case of there is very little chance (though still a chance) that one could actually rape a dolphin.