On days when this kind of hatred gets to me, I remind myself that in twenty or thirty years, people like this (or their children, or grandchildren) will be ashamed of their words.

So tired of the protective dad routine (even when Obama does this, it's tedious, Hallmark-barf traditional family, traditional gender roles BS). If a mother wrote something along these lines about either a son or a daughter, everyone would be jumping on her for being OVER protective, a "helicopter mom" , etc.

This must have been written by adult bullies and/or the parents of children who bully others.

This kind of pseudo-scientific dissing of childless/child-postponing people is nothing new. People have been sneering about "child substitute" pets for decades now. Really it's just another means of trying to pressure people into conformity. Not everyone is meant to be parent. And honestly, given the way some people…

Not even the usual Jez cursory-make-believe iota of feminist viewpoint here. Just bland acceptance of the whole notion that all women fit into some type of bitch category? So now, just like women can be mocked for being both too fat and too thin, too slutty and too prudish, the list also includes too…

Johnny Depp has always been a poser. It's just that this facet of his being becomes more evident as his looks fade. Basically he was James Franco for the 90s. But back then with no internet, there wasn't so much scope for his phoniness to reveal itself.

I like the new fantasy element that has entered Florida Man/Florida Woman's activities. Previously most of the stories fell into the category of poor decision-making on the part of criminally inclined, often inebriated and frequently angry people. But with this story and the one a couple days ago about the unicorn…

If she behaved rudely, then the Macklemore guy should have commented on her behavior, not her size. (I wonder if the newer CL post was actually written by Macklemorish himself as a stealth defense of his rudeness)/

Unfortunately, I doubt that this ad, scathingly well-written though it is, will pierce the thick hide of his ego. People who act like this tend to believe they are divinely anointed to critique other people for perceived social crimes like not being sufficiently decorative or being attractive but failing to smile, etc.

My reaction would depend upon the person associated with the boxer shorts. Like if there was a pic of Tom Hardy wearing a certain style of shorts and then someone handed a pair of that same style to me. Also, were they clean? Because I don't know any woman, hetero or queer, who gets turned on by anyone's dirty drawers.

In college, I knew several people who espoused this kind of leaky "I'm not racist because of having sex with black people" defense. One of my friends said she wished she could get a professor to approve her writing a paper on "The Myth of Overcoming Racism Through Penile Injection/Vaginal Engulfment."

The line "her blonde hair became legendary" is bizarre for a news story. Sounds like something you'd expect from either a Penthouse Forum letter or a Harlequin romance novel.

By that kind of logic, someone arrested for robbing a convenience store could point out that, hey, at least they didn't kidnap anyone.

But that is the kind of language often used by a range of people interested in many different types of energy healing, ranging from reiki (developed by a Japanese Buddhist) to Celtic shamanism (based on an interpretation of pre-Christian spirituality in Celtic cultures) to Healing Touch (developed by a US nurse). …

An interest in reiki does not necessarily make someone guilty of Orientalism. That part of the advice was a bit smug, not to mention uninformed. As far as a friend's friends being toxic jerks, that can sometimes be a warning signal. Depends on what you mean by "toxic" and "beyond irritating" (do they exhibit a lack…

So bare bones a definition does nothing to rule out activities such as pedophilia or bestiality. The fact that many people define rape that way creates a culture of violence and abuse.

No, sex is by definition consensual. RAPE IS NOT SEX, therefore no one rapes "for sex."

Interesting how it's acceptable for two women two be in physical contact but not for two men. Can't imagine a magazine cover featuring two male stars posing like prom dates, holding hands, etc (unless ironically or if the pose somehow related to a movie they starred in together). Although I would like to see, say…

Friendship breakups are as hard as romantic breakups. Maybe worse, because usually you get to talk with your friends about how your ex screwed you over but there's not always someone willing to be a shoulder to cry on over a friendship ending.

Doesn't matter. Those laws seem to apply only to white men so the woman in question probably couldn't cite that statute if she defended herself against any rapists.