@Brian Moylan: If "dirtbag" can elicit censorship on Gawker, the star was a mark of shame. Anyway, I’m gainfully employed and all, so take the pretty star and hock it for the rent on your filthy hovel.
Shut up, dirtbag.
@teebol: Noted.
Personally, I’m entirely in favor of the kinds of policies that would flow from a genuine concern with rights and freedoms. Any consensual sexual act would be allowed. Obscenity laws would not exist. Marriage would be abolished rather than extended. There would be a Constitutional right to reproductive freedom.
The commenter might have a point if U.S. society accorded rights to individuals based on such abstract principles. In reality, most people don’t really believe in civil rights or individual freedom, except for people who are narrowly similar to themselves.
Also, the vast majority of the population, whether bisexual, homosexual, or heterosexual, experiences sexual orientation (with respect to gender) as innate and stable. For self-identified homosexuals and bisexuals, the experience is particularly unambiguous, since they have had to establish their identities against virulent and ubiquitous indoctrination. The minority that experiences significant fluctuation in desire, or for whom gender is an insignificant aspect of sexual attraction, are a focus of blinkered theoretical obsession. It’s a classic case of losing track of the forest because of a few interesting trees.
@talithaghetto: "Passivity" is a word (Google much?) and such men claim vociferously that the role in penetration is unrelated to being active, passive, masculine, or anything else whatsoever. These annoying, exaggerated protestations cease only when the flow of air from their lungs is stopped by the forceful initiation of mouth congress.
I accept her show for what it is, mediocre, occasionally funny late-night filler. If I absolutely can’t find anything else, or when she (not infrequently) has a gorgeous male guest, I’ll watch.
@worrell84: I was addressing the author, because I find KFC products repulsive. I have no problem with the commercial, since the fried-chicken association is obviously an obscure North American cultural oddity. Never mind that a love of deep-fried poultry knows no color, or that there’s absolutely nothing wrong with liking fried chicken, outside of dietary considerations.
You liked KFC?
@rumpofsteelskin: Lassi is made with water and ice, so your bowels would likely lose that bet. I got a good colon cleanse from a lovely yogurt concoction served at wedding at a fancy hotel in Delhi. Indians typically have no understanding of how coddled foreign immune systems react to their water, and I guess some well-intentioned guest thought I looked thirsty.
For ice cream, I think it depends on the brand (e.g., Kwality has a good name) and the trustworthiness of the vendor. It’s important that the product not have melted and been re-frozen. Ice crystals on the package or in the ice cream are a bad sign.
@Carson Suggs: I couldn’t disagree more. Offer Shlomi has thankfully not learned the art of DEAFENING YOU WITH EVERY WORD. I was delighted at Mays’ timely demise.
@mimigoliath: If only the Declaration of Independence were substantially connected to the Constitution. Had it been so, slavery might have been abolished with ratification.
@mimigoliath: The question is not whether the Constitution could be interpreted to to require equal marriage rights, but whether the justices currently in place would choose that interpretation.
The rules of engagement for this kind of statement are pretty clear. I have no idea what you were thinking.
@ninjagin: For most of human history, most people had no knowledge of writing. Most languages were never written. Handheld writing tools were limited to small, elite minorities writing in relatively few languages. I don’t think there is any evidence that scribbling is more natural than typing. Both are highly imperfect means of capturing the enormously complex phenomenon that is human speech. (Diagrams are a separate issue.)
@squinko: It depends how you define "criminal." Anyway, I’m more concerned with the legal risks of making such an assertion in the absence of a supporting verdict.
"Rapist"? Was there a conviction?
@Charolastra: Really, the children?
@Heywoodjablome: No argument.
@Ima_letchu_finish: I completely disagree.
Interesting, I didn’t know it was a legal issue. I thought the lack of male brothel workers was purely a business matter.
