"if children are too young to consent to puberty blockers, then they are definitely too young to consent to puberty, which is a drastic biological upheaval in its own right"https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trans-rights- ( Read more... )

After I watched The Piano, K recommended The Piano Teacher, which felt in many ways like a middle-class version of Tár ... but without either the lesbian or the corruption angles ( Read more... )

My regression equations crunching electoral data since 1968 tell me that the most important factor in whether the incumbent party retains the White House (in a presidential election year) or maintains its House caucus (in a midterm election year) is economic growth. I've written about this before, that our democracy punishes the party in power ( Read more... )

"modern heterosexual dating culture appears to be an emotional meat grinder whose miseries and degradations can’t be solved by ever more elaborate rituals of consent"

I love this slogan from the tiny Green Party of Lebanon!

earth has no sect

I will have my fake Facebook profile follow them, as they have no independent website LOL.

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The words "party" and "sect" have similar meanings in the world of politics, but in English I feel the connotation of "sect" is more negative.

Party: an organization of ( Read more... )

"I should warn you, as a chastity sub, just talking about chastity is one of my biggest turnons, so if we keep talking about it,"

"That's so modern of you to warn me, not to involve a 'stranger' in your kink without consent,"

I posted on the poly subreddit about my older age pride, that I'm not a predator if a younger guy reaches out to me. At first it was downvoted and I got some critical comments. So I stopped reading the comments. But later I saw the post has been upvoted a bunch with 83 comments at that moment. I don't know whether I'll read all of them. Or any ( Read more... )

In the US we abandoned half of our Second Amendment.

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.This was not the only reference to "Militia" in the US Constitution. If you go to a copy of the Constitution on the Internet and use your word search ( Read more... )

I'm pretty sure that the more you "opt out" of Internet tracking, the more they hide from you the fact that they're tracking you. Mainly by not giving you those creepy ads that everybody else gets, where the ads seem to know exactly what you've been doing on the Internet or saying out loud near your smart device ( Read more... )

if you delve into the evolutionary biology of rape, admitting that evolutionary biology is mainly thought experiments, then there would be an evolutionary advantage both for the rapist, and for the one who is raped, you've both added another offspring to the gene pool ( Read more... )