I’m always surprised when I run into otherwise-enlightened guys with that attitude, who have no excuse for that attitude.... Surprised and then immediately not-surprised. Because the culture has done its work on them just THAT totally— all their lives they’ve been taught that birth control is a Girl Thing, that we’ll…

This news does not raise my spirits at all. For whatever reason I don’t like anime past the 90's. The aesthetic seemed to have shifted at that time. Same with the games coming from Japan. We start seeing more outlandish characters with ridiculously pointy(er?) hair and stunningly feminine  features. That’s just one…

Yikes! You are the first person I’ve come across to actually prefer Shirow’s later artwork to his earlier stuff. Each to his own... Art is subjective. But to literally every Shirow enthusiast I’ve known, It’s been his early glory days......and then he lost his mind. Personally I think everything he made somewhere…

omg batou smiled so cutely

RIP tri-lingual theme songs. :(

You meant Yoko Kanno, right? She did OST for SAC. Too bad about, Origa though.

You sound like a real asshole

Good (for the yelling part) because so many guys have their heads so far up their ass when it comes to reproductive responsibility.

I asked my boyfriend if he’d be willing to do that Vaselgel reversable vasectomy thing if it ever became available, and he was like “lol fuck no. I’m not getting a shot in my balls, are you nuts.”

He said this with a straight face to his feminist girlfriend who has been through two IUD insertions complete with cervical…

I don’t think condoms are 100% effective with anything, mostly because of user error.

We’re conditioned to smile through the pain & pretend It’s Nothing & keep prancing along taking care of everyone else’s needs.... Men don’t have that lifelong training, so it’s no wonder they’re such babies!

So the real takeaway here is “Try not to fuck more than 75% of the male population at a time”, right? Unless my math is fuzzy. Ladybrains, y’know.

I’m in my 40s and thinking of getting the shot. My gyn tested me and I’m negative, and she conceded that there aren’t a lot of data on older women, so why shouldn’t I get the shot (other than the out of pocket expense, and that I am skeptical that I will ever meet anyone again...)

No, but they can get throat, penile, and anal cancer.

Ya gotta love how, even in the case of a virus that affects both males and females, the onus is still more so on the girls than it is the boys. Not only to get the vaccine (seriously, just google HPV and you will find more than one result on the very first page that specifically references women), but for people who…

“45 percent of all men aged up to 60 had some sort of HPV strain and 25 percent had one of the strains that can cause cancer. Close to 40 percent of women had any type of HPV and 20 percent had a cancer-causing strain”

I just had a pap test come back positive for one of the “unspecified” strains of HPV. The best part is that I haven’t had sex in four years. I wish I could have been vaccinated. When I was of the appropriate age, it was still brand new, and the FIRST of the three shots cost me $1200. WITH insurance. My poor…

Kinda changes the meaning of “cancer stick,” doesn’t it?

Last time I went to a Walmart, it was to buy a pair of steel toed boots for a film shoot on an industrial site. My impression of that store was it was a refuge for people who have completely and utterly given up. I could feel my soul and my identity being drained away every minute I spent in there, and I soon found…

Why not mince the categories and let everyone, no matter their gender identity, compete against one another?