One of our supposed celebrities has made headlines re his 'sexual' preferences. Our national broadcaster fired him. Now he's using the intrawebs to defend his apparent physical abuse of women to be socially acceptable kink. Lots of interesting discussion of kink, consent, abuse. Here, here, here, and here.

Blamebrampton has written a most eloquent post on mental illness and society.  I've been diagnosed with depression since my late teens, it's a chronic illness which for the most part I don't discuss other than with very close friends. My sister has panic disorder which has at times kept her house bound for years. Getting help from society for our ( Read more... )

I read a few blogs. Today the author of a design blog I had enjoyed for several years decided I needed to know who she had sexxors with. I don't care if you have sexxors with whales, men, women, or turtles (I'm sure there are laws against sex with whales, and it might be kind of tricky with turtles, as well as being against the law).  However, I ( Read more... )

Work today brought some questions and concerns to share.
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Why are women tied to displaying their marital status by Mrs, Miss and Ms. The latter would be nice if all women used it. However, many women prefer to show that they are married and take on Mrs, some with their husband's surname, some hyphenated, and other combinations. This arose from a ( Read more... )