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Re: What the Aziz Ansari Allegations Can Teach Us About Enthusiastic Consent

goblinbox — Sun, 21 Jan 2018 15:42:12 -0000

It literally and actually was her fault for not being clearer about her sexual disinterest.

Men aren't psychic. The person who let her down that night was herself.

Re: How to Substitute Powdered Sugar for Regular Sugar

goblinbox — Wed, 22 Jul 2015 18:17:57 -0000

Powdered sugar is 3% corn starch, it is not 'the same product as granulated sugar, only ground.'

Re: How Sexual Parity with Men Is Making Women Sex Slaves

goblinbox — Wed, 22 Jul 2015 14:22:56 -0000

I dunno, I think she's right. Women tend to have lower libidos than men, and yet there are girls on Tinder who are actively putting out. Why is this? It's more likely that they do this for status than because they're genuinely horny in the way males are; women tend to have sex for lots of reasons that aren't physical desire (or are other desires sublimated into sex, like the desire for touch or contact or even intimacy, false as it may be).
The article is a stub and doesn't say much, but I think it would be easy to back up the assertion that our current belief in women's libidos being 'the same as' men's -- which we know isn't even true, but we all pretend it is anyway -- is causing a lot of women to engage in sex acts they're not particularly interested in because they think they're supposed to.

Re: Food Fight

goblinbox — Fri, 29 May 2015 15:17:25 -0000

Why is "fatty" the first mentioned in the list of so-called bad food choices? Fat is no longer bad for us; see, oh, I don't know, the tons of research collected in the past two decades indicating that dietary fat is protective and that actually low-fat diets are implicated in the prevalence of heart disease. Fat is not bad. Fat is not bad. Even saturated fat is not bad. Why do articles about diet continue to beat this dead horse?

Re: Human "Ingredients-List" shirt

goblinbox — Fri, 11 May 2012 15:08:37 -0000

I LOVE THIS.

Re: I’m waiting for a half dozen phone calls to be returned

goblinbox — Wed, 09 May 2012 14:41:52 -0000

Less than a month? I guess I'd probably better start practicing my songs? ;-)

Re: Anti-abortion campaigners sink to new depths

goblinbox — Fri, 04 May 2012 18:56:27 -0000

The maker of that flyer needs to adjust hir psych meds.

Re: "Start reading Why the Kindle Will Fail on your Kindle"

goblinbox — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 15:05:41 -0000

what's a kindle

Re: Photo grid of famous atheists

goblinbox — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:01:29 -0000

I don't believe in the tooth fairy. Please provide me with an all-celebrity image of other persons who also do not believe in the tooth fairy so that I may feel included in a kick ass group of superior persons!

Re: Sneak attack: surprise amendment makes CISPA worse, then it is voted and passed a day ahead of schedule. Congress just deleted the Fourth Amendment

goblinbox — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:41:01 -0000

Obama is veto-shy, kids. -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Re: Scientists claim the way a person answers simple math problem is a good predictor of their belief in a religion

goblinbox — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:57:17 -0000

This whole post just pisses me off because I suck at math. Hurumph.

Re: Wedding Cake 101

goblinbox — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:06:56 -0000

Fondant is sugar. How can it possibly be that effing expensive?!

Re: Georgia's anti-immigrant law leaves millions in crops rotting in the fields

goblinbox — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 08:48:01 -0000

If you use a calculator, you can discover that $8/hr. equals $1280/mo. If you subtract from that a reasonable fee for rent, utilities and bills, transportation, and food, you have a wage too low to support an individual person.

When you subtract taxes as well, it's less than a grand take-home per month.

I know of nowhere in the U.S. where I could survive on less than a thousand dollars per month without some sort of help from a friend, family member, or charity.

Therefore, eight bucks an hour is not a living wage, and even after being unemployed for nearly two years I wouldn't accept a job at that rate if I could help it. Especially not one as strenuous as harvesting blueberries.

As for charging what it really costs to produce food: we're so accustomed to subsidized products in this country that I'm fairly certain the market would collapse immediately if people were actually expected to pay for the worth of their food.

Re: What is up with Tennessee Ernie Ford's expression on this album cover?

goblinbox — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:23:39 -0000

Funny, sure, but this is a Boing Boing-quality article? Really?

Re: NSFW%3A+I+Admit+It%2C+The+iPad+Is+A+Kindle+Killer.+I+Just+Wish+It+Weren%26%238217%3Bt+Going+To+Kill+Reading%26nbsp%3BToo

goblinbox — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 02:29:46 -0000

I've been reading ebooks on electronic devices since 1994 and I've only had e-ink (in the form of my Kindle) for the past three months. The rest of my reading was done on devices without e-ink, many of which were backlit, and one of which was an iPod Touch. My eyes never hurt. In fact, the thing I dislike about my beloved Kindle is the fact that it doesn't work in the dark...

Good job coining "atted." (I haven't seen the word before; maybe you'll get the credit for the first use!)

Re: Would you marry outside your “class?”

goblinbox — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 01:54:25 -0000

Your Arabic teacher would do well to find someone to find his wife for him. Clearly he doesn't know what he needs; he's just looking for what he wants. Like you said, one doesn't marry a drunkard and expect them not to drink!

Re: Bottled Water & College: The stupid choices we make.

goblinbox — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:21:31 -0000

Great infographic!

I refuse to buy bottled water any more. I have a reusable bottle I try to bring with me (filled with tap water). The times I've forgotten it amazingly didn't end up with me dying of dehydration! Imagine that! ;-)

Re: 11 Things The Bible Bans, But You Do Anyway

goblinbox — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:51:21 -0000

Well done!

Your article brought out the nutters, the ones who utterly misunderstood your point and commented not because they wanted to dialog but primarily to bust out their unused vocabulary. Religion - particularly Christianity - simply cannot be discussed rationally in public, but only in a room with people one knows.

Yes, banning homosexuality is as silly as being refused entry to a particular building because you're a eunuch or the result of congress out of wedlock, or laws against touching pig skin or cutting one's hair in a bowl, or cutting off a woman's hand for defending her husband's life.

Have a nice day.

Re: Ping.fm / Uploaded Image from Nameless

goblinbox — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:11:54 -0000

Oooh! Vampires!

Re: Ping.fm / Uploaded Image from Nameless

goblinbox — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:21:07 -0000

Cute cute cute!

Re: Ping.fm / Uploaded Image from Nameless

goblinbox — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:15:13 -0000

Submissive trees!

Re: Ping.fm / Uploaded Image from Nameless

goblinbox — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:31:40 -0000

w00t

Re: The Coyote's Byte

goblinbox — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:21:10 -0000

You're totally goin' on my iPod, like, now. Whoo hoo!

Re: Vegetarian Gyoza (potstickers)

goblinbox — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:08:20 -0000

Thx for the veggie recipe!

Re: cosa

goblinbox — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:05:27 -0000

I'm so stoked. Srsly.