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Act on Beauty QueensI suspect it’s part correlation, part causation — men who don’t fit into the patriarchal male ideal (soft-spoken, relatively passive…
CrazyEd on Beauty QueensI think it's a common trait among members in groups that promote X thing (be it the cause of women, gays, minorities, the disabled, or what have you)…
Act on Pokeauthors Special Spotlight: In Which I Play Armchair Therapiststupid This drives me up a wall because “stupid” has no history as a medical term; it’s from freaking French via Latin (the Latin wo…
liminal fruitbat on Hunger Games Ch23Katniss, to start with, that’s what contraceptives are for. I just assumed she wouldn't have decent sex ed and/or that birth control would be banned b…
CrazyEd on Pokeauthors Special Spotlight: In Which I Play Armchair TherapistUsed like that, where anyone can stop anyone else from saying something because they don't like it, the concept of safe spaces become nothing more tha…
Keleri on Pokeauthors Special Spotlight: In Which I Play Armchair TherapistYeah there are definitely feminist/intersectional spaces that have rules about "hey, let's cool it on the potentially violent/abusive/ableist/sexist l…
Roarke on The Fifth SeasonI just finished it this morning, and aye, damn good stuff. It is one of those books that is super hard to talk about without spoiling stuff, but godda…
liminal fruitbat on Hunger Games Ch4He hasn’t accepted his death. He is already fighting hard to stay alive. Which also means that kind Peeta Mellark, the boy who gave me the bread, is f…
liminal fruitbat on Dresden Files Grave Peril Ch20Not so much street crime as the modern equivalent of beating up moneychangers and out-arguing asshole Pharisees. What does Michael do for the poor and…
Jen on Pokeauthors Special Spotlight: In Which I Play Armchair TherapistI've been there, long before Tumblr, and not only as a "kid," although not on the internet. I had depression, and in some forms of that or BPD things…
Mini-Farla on Pokeauthors Special Spotlight: In Which I Play Armchair TherapistI went to check out the story in question and it now appears to be deleted. It appears your tactless reviews have discouraged yet another author. If y…
Me on Pokeauthors Special Spotlight: In Which I Play Armchair TherapistI went to check out the story in question and it now appears to be deleted. It appears your tactless reviews have discouraged yet another author. An…
JackPK on Pokeauthors Special Spotlight: In Which I Play Armchair TherapistThat's a really interesting parallel. Makes me wonder whether attitudes like this are a side effect of the increasingly high-stakes pressure kids are…
GoldenFalls on Pokeauthors Special Spotlight: In Which I Play Armchair TherapistPractically, it becomes a lot more difficult to come across as genuine. However, I've found you can do it pretty reliably if you give specifics and or…
Mini-Farla on Pokeauthors Special Spotlight: In Which I Play Armchair TherapistI did not know this! My concept of safe spaces has always been "place where we don't say anything that could upset people", but it actually makes a lo…