Having sex that you don’t want isn’t merely “unsatisfying.” And yes, you’re talking about women having sex that they don’t want, because you’re saying that women can always hook up, even if they only choice is someone they hate and find unattractive. But it’s still a hookup! You say they shouldn’t do it, because it…

A straight men giving a non-reciprocal blowjob is without question a less satisfying experience than a woman giving non-reciprocal oral sex.

I do think that it is unreasonable to tell men who are unwillingly going through life without affection that they could find men to give blowjobs to. Yes, that would qualify as a “hookup” but it would be deeply unsatisfying.

It’s really telling that you haven’t responded to any of the comments pointing out that Fred can also give blow jobs.

Consider the possibility that “having a harder time hooking up” might include having a hard time hooking up because you know that it will be unsatisfying and dangerous and therefore you don’t even try. If you don’t put yourself out there because you’ve had a lot of bad experiences, or your friends have, then you’re in…

You’re still ignoring the fact that Fred can also give blow jobs. He might not get much pleasure out of it, especially if he’s straight, but he can do it. Therefore, he can perform a sex act and that’s a win for him. Somehow.

Not to mention that men can much more easily find someone to pay to have sex with them.

Any girl can have as much humiliating, painful, unpleasant, unsatisfying, dangerous sex as she wants! What a privilege!

Fran can go to a party and could very possible end up giving Carl, Brian, or even Arnold a blowjob. That is understandably unappealing and degrading to many women, but it is an option.

An A man, “Aaron” would prefer to hook up with only Amandas, but realistically, will hook up all the way down to the Debbies if the opportunity strikes. Debbie probably cannot have a relationship with an Aaron, but she does in fact have a reasonable chance of hooking up with Aaron on any particular Saturday night. In…

Ruptured aorta.

There’s also a big difference with front-loaders vs. top-loaders. I never cleaned my top-loader, but now that I have a front-loader I have to do it.

I am the farthest thing in the world from a clean freak, but I clean my washer periodically because I can smell the mildew and it’s gross. This is apparently a bigger problem with front-loading washers.

On a lot of models you can also just take the whole top rack off.

We have much more interesting dinner conversation when I ask my daughter (aged 12) about her day, as long as I ask specific questions (“what did you do in math today?” etc.). So we end up actually talking about graphing linear equations, or Ancient Egypt, or “The Charge of the Light Brigade” (yes, they still teach…

This. I have to ask my daughter about her day, in detail, every day, otherwise I get blindsided weeks or months down the road by what’s going on at school. I think that things are okay and that she’s adjusting to school (finally), and then I find out she hasn’t turned in any homework in weeks, or that she’s disruptive…

My theory is that the next phase is the disruption of the whole Good Place/Bad Place system. Either straight up revolution, or a Good Place covert op to save people from the Bad Place.

I get them in e-magazine form, and it’s not any better.

I have a theory that the show will next pivot toward tearing down the entire Good Place/Bad Place system, either by revolution or by some kind of covert Good Place operation to rescue people from the Bad Place (which maybe has been going on for millennia). Or something.

I read the original trilogy when I was about 11. They were among the darkest and most difficult books I had read at that point, but I loved them. I had found A Wizard of Earthsea at the library, and I remember showing it to my mom and telling her what a great book it was.