The key point that Asselin makes in her post critiquing the Teen Titans cover is that the cover represents poor marketing. When DC puts out a cover that shows a teenaged superhero popping out of her tube top, it delivers a specific message to many women: This book is not for you. The women in this book are here to…

This has been done to death - it sounds harsh, but the truth is that a bullet doesn't do much damage. You could shoot a person in the gun arm and fail to either hurt them or even render them unable to use the gun if it's a small caliber weapon (like the type a police officer carries).

All people have all the traits of all the zodiac signs. The classic test of astrology is to take numerous astrological readings, remove the name of the star sign the reading is supposed to pertain to, and then present them to a group of participants and see if they are able to identify which reading is their own star…

"For the record, I hold astrology in a kind of half-jokey/half-admiring regard. Like so many woo-woo things that aren't supposed to do jack-shit yet have millions of swear-by advocates, it's somehow simultaneously nonsensical and dead-on, and in a way that weirdly contradictory aspect of it earns my respect.

What if somebody told you to masturbate for prostate cancer awareness?

That's sickening. "Get yourself off on camera for us. You know, it's a choice and everything, but you wouldn't want footage of you refusing to fight female genital mutatilation to go on the internet would you? Didn't think so, now molest yourself for us."