So, I've been reading a lot of Emily Nagoski, lately, and she offers some insights into behavioural motivation and some other stuff that I hadn't considered quite that way, before. Mind, a good bit of it is pretty standard-issue, if you read a lot of sex and gender vs. culture type stuff, but the SCIENCE (because that needs capslock; it does) is a ( Read more... )

So, I notice more and more that people do not anticipate being declined, as though performing a certain set of social actions on any person must guarantee the same favourable result. This, for the record, is crap.

There is rarely harm in asking a question, aside from those odd cases where the content of the question reveals some secret to an ( Read more... )

I have noticed, in conversation, that transgender individuals I have known have at some point identified themselves as men or women with a deformity. This has led to accusations that they believe that all people of their birth sex are ugly or deformed. I have always known this was not correct, but until today, I couldn't find a way to articulate it ( Read more... )

I just want to take a moment to throw this one to you guys. I think it's the most hilarious and true analysis of America's view on sex and anything I've read this week.

"Daddy, what's that?" by Marty Klein

In other news, this guy's a genius and he's funny as hell. I'm still reading his archives, while I wait for some render-fu to sort itself out.

Yeah, so, no shit, there I was, realising that as far as foreign languages go, Dutch isn't that hard if you've got a background in Germanic languages (Hello, English; I'm looking at you.) when I notice a tweet referencing something about sexism and video games. This leads into a wicked spiral that at one point includes 'the phrase is not "female ( Read more... )

So, I'm reading this thesis published in 2001, called "One Index Finger on the Mouse Scroll Bar and the Other on My Clit", by Kelly Simca Boyd. So far, I'm only on page 40, but there have been some fine points made on feminism and pornography, and one line in particular has caught my attention.

"They, and other anti-pornography feminists, believed ( Read more... )

From ErosBlog:
- This one's for my favourite size queen, who will choke the life out of me for perpetuating that image of him. (NSFP)
- OMG, I want this shirt. I want it a lot.
- And, you know, The Goblin Market, because this poem should be read in its glorious entirety, and I think the excerpts and commentary here really make the point ( Read more... )

From bad_rpers_suck: a note on how not to act IC when your character is on fire.

ErosBlog on Horse Riding, Archery, and Foreplay.

From Gloria's Oversexed Mind:
- the size queen's pocket guide to the world.
- these guys are SO DAMN CUTE.
- Charlotte Rampling, who totally looks like David Bowie, in that last one.
- I really don't know what to say about this one ( Read more... )

What does it say about a man that he picks the pet names for the ones he loves from the work of others? And what more does it say when the contexts from which those things come say so much more than the words ever could ( Read more... )

1. Does anyone remember the Triangle shirtwaist fire? New York, 1911? Well, here's some fantastic news --  the last six victims have been identified, and some of the presumed victims have been re-identified, possibly more correctly.

2. So, no shit, this billboard. I thought it was just my family had that problem ( Read more... )