His adult poetry is pretty rockin'. He and Roald Dahl are both dirty as fuck when they write for adults.

Did my description read as the "general public"? Jesus. I'm also not victim blaming, I'm attempting to bring into consideration that the world is not neutral and that we all construct ourselves according to our world view, as well as assuming what others' world views are based on how they construct themselves. But…

Did you honestly miss what I was saying there or are you just throwing the conversation out?

I get violently upset when I see people "wearing" social signifiers that I find offensive - like White Power paraphernalia, racial slurs on clothing, or generally sending off the message "I am a misogynist, racist, piece-of-shit." I get really upset. I don't ever actually attack anybody because I'm a sane person,…

Anyone leaving the house without a chastity belt is just asking for it. And leaving your house is basically asking someone to break into it while you're gone anyway, so don't leave the house at all and if you're a woman you should have some other ladies there for security purposes also.

I've written a bill where men have to wait 72 hours between the doctor inspecting that suspicious bump on his penis and actually getting any treatment or diagnosis for it. Just so he can think about it.

Yeah, I have mixed feelings about the "turns out it's real!" aspect. For fuck's sake, of course it's real. Why do we need science to validate what so many women have been experiencing for eons - like, "turns out you're not just a hysterical, lying, cry baby." I do recognize that the medicalization of any and all…

For real. My cousin had a poster of him on her door in middle or high school, when he had long hair on that show, and he looked maybe 13 years old. I didn't get the attraction back then, but he was of course great on that show.

I don't know why Twitter is stigmatized and given its immediacy the platform is perfectly appropriate for situations which are IN PROGRESS. As far as social media are concerned, Twitter is a platform favored by black users (and demographically young users in general) and is an absolutely and perfectly meaningful…

As an aside, the photo of Gammy with his Thai brother at the top of this article KILLS ME because what his brother is doing is the Thai "sniff kiss." Thais don't kiss with the mouth as an affectionate thing in public (generally speaking) and instead do this quick little sniff of the skin, the hair, whatever. It's…

Apparently the GoFundMe to finance Gammy's heart surgeries has been very successful and the Australian government, while definitely working in tandem with the Thai government to regulate the shit out of surrogacy (which isn't really legal in Thailand, either) is also looking into giving both Gammy and his mother (the…

Everyone's points about small town high school football teams (or wrestling, or whatever) are not inaccurate. But a more complete answer to your inquiry is also to say that "star athlete" sounds better than just "athlete" in print and has come to be used in the way that one refers to "porn stars," instead of…

Medical abortion is incredibly limited in Thailand, so I'm not sure that this woman could have access to a safe, selective abortion in the context of a hospital in Thailand even if she were willing to undergo the process - just as a "heads up" to all the comments that assume all attitudes, laws, understandings and…

Medical abortion is incredibly limited in Thailand, so I'm not sure that this woman could have access to a safe, selective abortion in the context of a hospital in Thailand even if she were willing to undergo the process - just as a "heads up" to all the comments that assume all attitudes, laws, understandings and…

I suspect that the limitation of "altruistic" options in Australia is that, without financial incentive and compensation, there are far fewer surrogates available for the demand that might be present in the overall community.

Nah, that's about as much of his face as you'd be seeing from over the ridge... so to speak.

I don't want to piss on the parade because I think this is really interesting/useful/meaningful as an experiment and lesson... but isn't there more context to this than just the Gillette company pulling a previously non-existent aesthetic out of their asses? I mean, in the 1920's Flappers were raising hem lines and…

Because a microwave won't toast the bread and a soft, soggy-sounding grilled cheese sandwich is the sad, just-don't-touch-me equivalent of a flaccid handshake.

I'm the only girl after a string of boys - the salvation of them all. Had I been a boy I would have been named Matthew, which is a fine name except that when you rattle it off with the names of my brothers it doesn't fit at all and I would have been the greatest disappointment of the entire family. The "oh great,…

Interview does this same photo concept every edition. It's got a nod to Helmut Newton without any of the actual grit. Women as dolls, ad nauseum.