Maybe, though I know many straight-identified women who feel the same way.. I suppose it's possible that they have some unexplored or repressed feelings of bisexuality, but I believe that plenty of women find photos of other women titillating even though they do not actually want to have sex with them.

I might forgive a someone's linguistic trespasses if they let me befriend their monkey.

But isn't the act of "celebrating one's desirability" kind of ridiculous and absurd in the first place? I'm not saying that it can't be healthy and/or fun, but it's also kind of a silly thing to do.

Actually, I find naked pictures of women to be pretty.. um.. compelling.

oh, and sorry if this is disjointed. hubby is away on one of those aforementioned business trips, and i was interrupted by several requests to refill glasses of water, a diaper change, and emergency cat poop removal (i hate my friggin elderly cat sometimes) from the living room floor.

We are socially conditioned to view women as sexual objects (or beauty objects, or just objects in general) - a girl or a woman who takes a picture of herself exclusively intended to show the viewers that she is beautiful, attractive, desirable, etc. (that is, it is not a piece of art, social commentary,…

Funny thing is, I grew up in a mostly African American area, and she would not have been considered dark skinned - more medium. Going to college where anyone who had any pigment at all was considered "dark" rocked my world. In any event, it's good to see more drop-dead gorgeous women of color in mainstream media,…

By "limited life experience," I meant limited experience with sex and relationships, sorry if that was unclear. As the wife of an engineer and the neighbor/friend of several professors at the prestigious university in our town, I notice an increased fetishization of the "road not taken" for people who spent the bulk…

As someone who as a tween thought Ralph Macchio was the Cutest Guy Ever, I think young girls do tend to be more attracted to boys with more adolescent, even girly features - smooth, hairless skin, "sweet-faced" rather than "rugged." It's probably best for them not to be attracted to grown men, no? Looking back, all…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Nowak

When will people stop being surprised that a person's mental IQ has very little to do with his/her social-sexual IQ? Lonely dude locked in his ivory tower indulges the generic fantasy of being a drug-smuggling mastermind with a bikini model girlfriend. Big whoop.

Word. Racism sucks. And I guess I would get annoyed if people referred to my kids as white too.. It cuts both ways - on the one hand I feel weird that people are constantly noting that they're "different" (read, nonwhite Americans whose status as Americans is thus always questioned), and on the other they identify…

I guess it's just annoying that people seem to think of him as "dark skinned" (or, as another commenter said, "swarthy"), as if the norm is blond haired, blue eyes. My kids are mixed (Indian and white) but pretty darned light skinned, yet white people are always commenting on them being "so dark." I'm like,…

swarthy?! the kid is beige at most.

also, I know that one kid isn't technically white, but it's pretty damned hard to tell.

Meh. The lot of them make me uncomfortable. They just seem like a generic group of smug, popular white boys who'll take pictures of their dates' asses while they're sleeping and send them to their friends.

The thing that pisses me off most about the article is the tone. The author insists on lumping her readers in with her, as if we ALL WOMEN EVER must feel this way about two other women neither she nor the vast majority of readers has met. I don't usually comment on the celebrity gossip articles, but it's been…

I don't know these women. I have no interest in befriend or becoming either of them. Frankly, I find all this pablum Jezebel has been feeding us over the last month or so about what they represent to and say about me to be pretty fucking offensive.