I have a son (18 yo now) who experienced Cat in the Hat in this same way. It was one of the first important glimpses into his personality - very different from mine - and something I remind myself of to help me understand him even now.

He needs to be careful, you never know which Republican family values man might try to take him up on that.

My sister was one of those girls except her boyfriend was “only” 22. They met when he was in high school and she was in middle school but they did community theater together He ended up cheating on her with a 14 year old who once got mad at him for something, went to the police and sat up a sting.

Fair enough. “Faggy” wasn’t intended as some sort of literal description of gay men’s identities or presentations, but rather the distorted, dehumanizing lens through which many cishet women view those identities/presentations. I know it’s obviously a very laden word, but I think when it comes to these issues, it’s…

Lol so you’re implying they’d respond violently? Really making a strong argument in favor of keeping them strapped, there. Anyway good point, I’ll definitely make sure to go up to The Cops and tell them that.

also as a cisgay man i feel like we are slowly through the looking glass with everyone bashin “masc4masc” and “celebrate your femininity” that you are not allowed to say that you don’t enjoy drag or that you prefer regular dudes without someone accusin you of internalizing homophobia or something.. god forbid you…

Or raise your hand if you thought you were one of those mature girls when you were 15 and would flirt with your teacher and relish in the attention he gave you. But now looking back realize he should have shut that shit down.

Vukmir is almost 60 years old. Adolescence for her is not adolescence today. In the mid-1970s, she didn’t deal with social media, cell phones, and helicopter parents who smother their kids and set the shitty standards for the rest of us. Sexual assault, molestation, sexual harassment, racism, and segregation were…

So very true, I wish we could face this reality head-on and implement some real solutions. I know we can’t b/c, culturally, it’d be too offensive and controversial, but ugh, it’s such a depressing, never-ending cycle.

In 2010, the HPV vaccine wasn’t yet commonly suggested for boys because the CDC didn’t begin to recommend its use in males until late 2011. It is now recommended for both boys and girls at or prior to the onset of puberty because it’s been shown to be as effective for males as it is for females.

Irrelevant, but I hope that Jezebel does an article on this breaking story:

Why is he so familiar with what authentic strangulation looks like?

“Yes, America is the greatest country in the world overall.”

I bet all those super liberal feminist women were the ones voting for Trump. Look, it is a useful statistic, but it gets a little ridiculous how often it gets pulled out as a trump card. My over 95% white town in rural New England voted 88% for Clinton, and the rest was split between Trump and Gary whatisname.…

You know, its possible that people don’t think EITHER candidate deserved the presidency.

Yeah 100% this is some dude

I am definitely a woman, yesirree, you can tell by how often I state that I am a woman, which is something that a woman would do, several times in the same conversation, just to make sure that everyone knows that the opinion being expressed is being expressed by a woman.

Oh cut it out with the stupid infantilization of this woman. She is 22 fucking years old. A fucking adult.

The problem is that she’s offering to commit fraud. The quid pro quo is that she tells her followers what a great time she had at White Moose Cafe in return for the free room. How many times has she done this before? How much of the “social media economy” is built on fraudulent product endorsements like this?

Not enough people know about Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace*, so finding people who do always makes me happy.