I didn't want to say anything that would seem bitchy over spelling... but the mental image is absolutely hilarious here.

Generally my response to people who push others towards marriage, too.

OK. I'm sold. Adding this one to the ol' DVR record list :)

This is only vaguely related, but on the subject of language and ordering —

That is gorgeous!

Just what I was going to say — it certainly feels like there is a distinction to be drawn between social ordering manners such as "eat salad with the small fork" or "no white after labor day" versus simple human acknowledgment like please and thank you, making eye contact when speaking to someone, etc.

I can't imagine not writing a thank you card. It ranks up there with "put the toilet seat down" as things enthusiastically smashed into my head by both parents growing up. And then later, when I was hunting for jobs, I had similar advice from job hunt coaches.

As a person who writes thank you notes constantly, out of nothing more than having had it drilled into my head by parents AND job hunt advisors, that's really interesting. I think you could definitely MAKE a thank you card come off as pretentious... in fact, I avoid buying anything too cutesy for exactly that reason.

Additionally, none of this exists in a vacuum. There has to be initial legislation to become a model for the rest of the nation. I doubt that gay marriage support would be as strong as it is today without Massachusetts having led legislatively on the issue, for example.

Oh, that definitely figures into it too. Ugh. Survive the complex that coming out gives you and prepare to get another complex over not fitting neatly into the twink-bear continuum :-P

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/30/japan-population-decline-youth-no-sex_n_1242014.html

Nah, you make total sense. I said this to another commenter but... I don't know if it's wanting to not come off as a caricature or yourself or what, but there's something about The Gay Voice that I want to avoid even though I'm out to friends/family/colleagues. I don't hear it at all when I listen to myself speaking,…

Oh man, I know exactly what you're talking about. I don't know if it's wanting to not come off as a caricature or yourself or what, but there's something about The Gay Voice that I want to avoid even though I'm out to friends/family/colleagues. I don't hear it at all when I listen to myself speaking, but when I play…

Well, there's plenty more to DO as kids these days. It's obviously hard to extract one singular cause from a morass of education/isolation/culture issues, but I believe firmly that one of the multiple reasons that teen pregnancy is so much higher in rural areas is because there's not a lot else to do but have sex. …

Man, sometimes this shit goes 'round the bend from "insidious" to "obviously morally wrong." Absolutely unconscionable.

It's not a complete parallel at all. Let me help you out on what 'bigotry' means in this scenario, since you put it in scare quotes. Bigotry means that a specific group of people is being denied a privilege extended to others with no quantifiable justification. Legalizing gay marriage does not preclude the right of…

They'll be shocked to find out that he's been wearing an Andrew Christian jock with the molded cock-shape pouch all along, 'twas no dong at all!

This, thank you.

Oh muh guh. I kind of glossed over in the slideshow above but your comment made me Google Sam Irons.

He never did anything for me back in the Dawson's Creek days but YOWZA did he age well. I feel like he really grew into his looks.