On the real though, the best sex I’ve had has always been with the dudes that aren’t necessarily classically handsome, but still exude confidence. I got dickmatized by this one dude about ten years ago that just by glancing at you would NEVER think it’d be like that. But it was, and I thought I might never make it out…

And yet, when I point this out to people caught in this cycle, they don’t see it. They have completely drunk the proverbial Kool-Aid and continue to believe the lie that Canada is a good place to live where you will have a high standard of living. That was true until late 2008. At that time, I was working for the…

Excellent post... far better and more informative than the article. Kudos!

Seconded on language learning. Even with a couple of semesters of Portuguese I found I could understand about half of what people said, which meant I couldn’t understand the other half. Sadly, I found this true with French, which I was far more familiar with. Grammar study is no substitute for aural comprehension.…

I hate replying to my own reply, it makes me feel like I’m going to go blind or get hairy palms.

To add to that, the point about learning as much as you can of the local language is a bit pie in the sky. My experience is that even if you have a pretty good command of a foreign language, when you get to the place you learn that nobody actually speaks the language you just learned. And you have to go back to the…

I appreciated this interview and write up, but I have to say that this...

What bothers me the most is that his statement of ‘I have never..’ is that it sounds as though he’s saying because he’s not a person of power, he can’t sexually harass women in the same way as your other MeToo notorious.

What bothers me the most is that his statement of ‘I have never..’ is that it sounds as though he’s saying because he’s not a person of power, he can’t sexually harass women in the same way as your other MeToo notorious.

Just read that piece. Pretty accurate, although “Ellis is the symptom, not the disease” feels like it’s letting him off the hook a bit. One can be both.

I know a number of people who have been raised by abusive parents who made the conscious effort and put in the work to not be abusive parents themselves. (And it is…

I think you follow a Facebook page I also follow, because I swear I read this post before (it’s very good, by the way, thoughtful and puts into words a lot of my own feelings).

Yeah, this one really hurts to see. His statement came off as kind of boilerplate, as well. He needs to come clean, make a real attempt to correct these fuck ups, and stay on the goddamn straight and narrow. When I say correct, I mean real shit. Not just “listening” to victims like his statement said but own his fuck…

Warren Ellis is, hands down, my favorite comic book writer of all times. Planetary, the Authority, and the latest iteration of Wild Storm are by far my favorites - I own the first as Absolute editions and have been pestering DC for the latter since day one. To say that I admire him for his writing would be an…

I have never considered myself famous or powerful

The commentators are probably flummoxed by her name change. MRAs and Incels are not fond of acknowledging their beloved “red pill” metaphor was created by trans women. If they have to refer to the Wachowskis, they typically dead-name and misgender them. If they’ve never been out of the Misogynist Echo Chamber,…

“But if you want to sit at the cool table you watch the series, along with Dark City. Then we can talk.”

I remember when Paul Ryan said he loved Rage Against the Machine. One of the band members had to explain to Ryan that his party, much like Elon Musk, was the machine.

I need to believe that Tom Hardy makes a bangin’ tofu stir fry.

No, We are supposed to be using less “Single-Use” plastic. The majority of plastic waste is of the Single-use variety. It’s also the Single-Use type that is common to not get dispose of properly, ending up in the ocean, our drinking water, and the environment. (As we currently know it. Kinda a new field to realize we…

OMG, the microwave that is a drawer!  I need that in my next house.  My husband is disabled and that would be SO much easier for him than opening a swinging door to retrieve food and having to reach in.