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Still, I always love your column and this one was great as always!
You're welcome.
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And, uh... trees are phallic symbols, DOY! So the protagonist(?) of The Melon Humper is clearly a latent homosexual. He feminizes Doug Firs because he's trying to reinforce his assumed hetero identity.
(think about it... Doug? totally a gay name!)
And Dan, we know you have a gigantic bloody fucking tampon up your ass about prop 8. I know it's just sticking to the sides of your anal cavity, irritating you and making you think that if you don't take it out maybe you'll get toxic-shock syndrome.
Dan, take the fucking tampon out. Every civil rights movement in history is two steps forward, one step back. Being a bitchy, arrogant prick (other than the one we used to know and love) is doing nothing for your cause and frankly, is alienating THIS reader.
I need a break from you, Dan. I already had to cancel the subscription to your podcast because I got sick of the crappy sound, the inane callers, and your terrible, terrible advice. Your printed column was once a highlight of my week, now I simply think, 'how much has he jumped into the deep fucking end this week?' I can't take any more of your whining. You're worse than fucking SHEESH.
As you seem to be someone of intellectual acumen, I think I should add that Queer Studies does not look at heterosexual (or rather, heterosocial?) characters as if they were gay. Instead, queer hermeneutics points at antinormative patterns of behaviour, speech, or any other kinds of idiosyncrasies, and strives to demonstrate how heteronormative readings can and should be questioned.
On a related note: If you want gay marriage to be legal, simply follow these steps:
1) Push for civil unions--in every state or nationally--that have all the characteristics of marriage. This should not be that hard, as most of the Right has conceded civil unions to support their bigotry on the marriage issue. Even douches as douchy as Michael Medved have come out in favor of them.
2) Get a lot of people civil unionized.
3) Call civil unions "marriages," to the press, to your friends, on your blog, on the radio, etc. Have your straight friends, sympathetic politicians, and celebrities call it marriage too.
4) Everybody starts calling it marriage, just like everyone calls a tissue "Kleenex" or a photocopier a "Xerox"
5) Now that it is a fait accompli- there are gay couples that have all the rights of marriage, and everyone is calling it a marriage- there is no way to stop the legality of gay marriage. Christianists are forced to hate on something else.
Seriously, it's not that hard. The right has decided to make the gay marriage debate a semantic issue. I would suggest the gay community not take the bait. This end-around is so easy gay marriage could be legal in a couple of years, instead of legislated away decades.
did you know that *every week* the date on the column matches the date it will appear in print?
dumbass
"As is pointed out every week, the column date is the same as the printed publication date. That's why it is always posted a day or two ahead."
But there is always someone who smugly emphasizes that he knows how to use a calendar. Amazing!
To the rest of us who are aware of this obvious fact, or just don't care, you, Wow!, look like the dumbass. Nicely done.
the big problem here is that marriages aren't kleenex. not just any brand will do. I got myself married in CA and now call myself married (and everyone i know agrees with me that i am "married"), but it doesn't mean i have any of the rights of marriage in the state where i live. if i get civil unioned where i live, it won't transfer when i move out of state. so there still needs to be a change in legislation nationally. if we are going for national civil unions, why not just go for the whole deal? i want to file taxes as a married person, damnit!
I've had one for about a year and the only by product is delicious hash. How can you go wrong?
it may be fun, it isn't healthy, ever. sorry to disappoint.
I mean what would my 'friends' at work think if they saw me reading about Furries or men that would pick pubes out of the urinal, go home, boil them and then masturbate with the aforementioned pubes in their mouth. That, sadly, is a thing of the past.
Dan is now all about Prop. H8 and has become the Rush Limbaugh of advice columnists. Where has the Savage we once knew and loved gone...?
Le sigh.
If he views them as feminine and thus attractive, then the inside of his head is clearly wired in a heterosexual manner. The poor guy's just got his human/tree wire crossed, is all.
Five percent of a column spent on civil rights issues does not a Limbaugh make, as another commenter has asserted. And what about Santorum and ITMFA? I appreciate the political bent that this column sometimes takes (and it often turns amusing).
Finally, where exactly was Dan complaining about/to Obama? A friendly reminder--continuing to make one's voice heard--is not a complaint.
I'm thinking that we need to ditch altogether the terms "homosexual", "heterosexual" and "bisexual" and use instead "gynophile", "androphile" amd "anthrophile".
The guy who stays home every night surfing the porn sites, the Greeks had a term for people who keep to themselves. It's Latinized to "idiot" unfortunately.
Heterosexuals are attracted to opposite-sex people.
Homosexuals are attracted to same-sex people.
What do these two groups have in common? The PEOPLE bit. Surely someone who is attracted to trees falls outside of the category of "people who are attracted to people" and is therefore NEITHER heterosexual nor homosexual! Am I the only one who finds it strange that some are insisting he must be one or the other? I mean, he's not attracted to people at all!
LWORD
Wow. Can we have this added to the dictionary under Topping From the Bottom? I bet this ass can't keep a girlfriend, either.
I wanted to show everyone this video i found for Prop 8, it is sooooo funny! Hope you all enjoy it!
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/c0cf508…
"I try to accept what people have done, what they are doing, and who they choose to be, and then I ask myself whether I want more of their actions in my life.. the answer is usually clear."
What? The stuff you're THINKING during sex doesn't count anymore?
SHEESH: Sharing dildos? Fucking gross. Slapping a condom over a used dildo? Still fucking gross.
How is this possible? Does a tree magically assume the same sex as the person fucking it? Or are you using 'gay' as a derogatory term?
It must be the latter. My advice to you, stackman, is that you keep your ignorant and oppressive comments to yourself.
I'm going out on a limb here, but I suspect the reason this character attributes human genders and/or names to his trees is that he just isn't quite at ease yet with being involved that way with something so out of the mainstream--and/or his thought-ways still stem from binary stereotypes. I understand there are a lot of objectophiles/objectum-sexuals who stick humanoid genders on their objects--but not all. From here it seems...dishonest. Some folks, like me, find that conventional notions of gender go against our grain.
Dan, your column has been a favorite of mine for eons. But I am sick of politics, and glad that the readership is once again branching out into new subjects. RF, thanks for telling me about the book -- I hope to be leafing through it soon.
Prorogue: a new swear word that means: a break from work to fuck the majority of one's co-workers
If you bleached down a toy, there is no way there is remaining HIV on there. Let's not hyperexaggerate here.
Please....
I'm not alone.
You're welcome.
I'm still not sure just by reading your letter and Dan's thoughts whether you needed to DTMFA or she you, or both, but if sharing is such a deal-breaker for you and dope use is such a deal-breaker for her you're both clearly well rid of each other.
Don't worry, it's not like either of you has some extreme kink or a drug addiction that breaks the deal for most people, or can't stand something most people can't live without. Here's hoping you'll find someone better for you soon!
What we see of a tree is only half it. There are two structures...One up, one down, but both dendritic...both globular when taken in aspect. The matrix where they meet, a metaphor for the human heart, is the ground. So, one globular mass and another. Does that remind anyone of anything?
Yes folks...trees are boobies. And anyone who has sex with trees is not only having sex with a female...but titfucking.
Please tip your bartenders.
Why else did I move to WA?
There is no necessity between gender preference and the fantasized "gender" of the object that is fucked to be the same.
I suppose one could pose the question to you: Why do you need your straight people to only fuck the opposite gender even if the gender is imagined? Or again why do you need you gays to only fuck those of the same gender even if the gender is imagined?
Cheers
Wow. Can we have this added to the dictionary under Topping From the Bottom? I bet this ass can't keep a girlfriend, either.<---
1) He employed her services, therefore she WAS supposed to do what she was being paid for, dominate him, not expose him to infection or disease. It’s not topping from the bottom if he paid her to dom him. Ultimately he IS in control, he pays her for the illusion of not being in control, while still having the right to stop the encounter. Even if this weren't a business agreement, no one has the right to use dirty toys on anyone with out consent and they shouldn't be berated for saying no to it. Insulting someone or implying they are doing BDSM incorrectly by saying they are "topping from the bottom" (which is seen as 'bad' in the BDSM community) is just telling other people that they shouldn’t say no to unsafe practices just because the person initiating them calls himself or herself a Dom. We are people first and whether you pay for BDSM or you practice it freely, you should never sacrifice your safety for anyone.
2) No matter how much sanitizing you do to a toy there is always a chance something could be on it, even if you use a condom, there is the chance that the condom could break, or the part of the toy that isn't covered could come in contact with the body. Insertables should not be used on multiple strangers.
Him bitching to an advice column that this woman reads was probably fueled by reasons other than the misuse of a toy in paid-BDSM services, but paying someone to dom you should not negate safe, sane and consensual play.
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I get where you're coming from, but since this is about sexuality and sexuality has mostly to do with subjective identification, you can't be so black and white about trees not having gender, either. Someone who exclusively feminizes the trees he's fucking is a tree-fucking straight boy. Someone who doesn't care what gender the trees are as long as they're lovely and fuckable is just a tree-fucker. And a guy fucking trees just because it feels good is only masturbating in an interesting way. What's so funny is that all of the above -- including the girl-tree-fucking -- has to be specifically "gay" in the eyes of a bunch of frat boys.
um, in what universe are you basing your statement?
"smoking is bad" sure no problem there, the burnt crap in you lungs is INSANE
but "TCH is bad"
nah, now you are just a NUT
for proof of my position?
try to find a single study, anywhere, that actually tested the dangers of nicotine or TCH, AFTER removing the smoking part
another way to ask this, does pot brownies cause cancer? or jsut get you high
does the nicoderm patch cause cancer or just put nicotine in your blood?
sry, but there is a difference between dangerous and "we think it is wrong to get high"
/sigh really hate the haters
//love the slashies
The issue shouldn't be whether the character was heterosexual or homosexual. Both of those answers are not even wrong.
It's like asking whether a pedophile is straight or gay. They are neither. They are attracted to kids, not adult males or females.
The better question for the class would be whether the character prefers oaks or firs.
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