Fatness is an American mortal sin. This is not a new situation, but I’m overjoyed to see the beginnings of a cultural backlash about it. The most recent example of this is the controversy over the comments of one Maria…
Fatness is an American mortal sin. This is not a new situation, but I’m overjoyed to see the beginnings of a cultural backlash about it. The most recent example of this is the controversy over the comments of one Maria…
Don’t just teach your children to read … Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything. ~ George Carlin, 1937-1988 [pic embedded] Related articles 51 Genius Quotes That Prove George Carlin Was A Modern Philosopher (thoughtcatalog.com)
People think all kinds of things are true that aren’t. Most of the time people hear or read something that makes initial common sense, so it sticks in their brain like a barnacle on a ship’s hull. The problem is…
Riot.Jane Today’s quotation: The Web is truly customizable: You can listen to radios that play only your preferred tunes and read newspapers that cover only your favorite subjects. “We’re used to having our tastes perfectly matched, whcih leads to entitlement,”…
Riot.Jane If one particular man in history had died of polio as a child, you might not be reading this. In fact, I daresay that modern Western life would indeed be very different. On this day in 1945, Arthur C.…
Riot.Jane A blog post by Mary Jo Rapini, LPC, caught my attention. How you feel about losing your virginity depends…are you a guy or girl? begins with a discussion about the gender differences in the after-effects of the first sexual encounter as…
Riot.Jane I just received the following e-mail, and the topic is news to me. This is surprising because I’m usually pretty current on matters of reproductive freedom . . . More on this topic to come. This is not an advocation that anyone…
Keeping one’s sex life interesting over the long term is sometimes difficult. Reading and hearing advice can help, but sometimes advice is of poor quality, poorly understood, or poorly implemented. This can lead to bad experiences and devastating consequences. The…
Riot.Jane In our first Sexy Sundays post, The Ins & Outs of Anal Sex (Part 1) (NSFW), MellissaY and JohnY introduced us to the topic. There’s so much more information that’s important to the topic, that we’ve decided to post…
Riot.Jane Crystal Smith, author of The Achilles Effect, blogs about the the impact of kids’ popular culture on young boys becuase she has been regularly disappointed by the film and television offerings available to her two young sons. She has analyzed the…
Cultural Dissidence 