http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove?oid=14722831 Comments On: Savage Love by Dan Savage en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Sun, 19 May 2013 15:30:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by auntie grizelda]]> Mon, 24 Sep 2012 23:09:20 -0700 The Stranger Boy, that gives a whole new meaning to "meat"!
Wherrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre's the BEEF?
Posted by auntie grizelda]]> Mon, 24 Sep 2012 23:07:06 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Living Love At Electric Ladyland;)]]> Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:28:37 -0700 The Stranger Well, Jenny, wherever you are, you certainly did fool me. Congrats!
Posted by auntie grizelda]]> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 22:22:11 -0700 The Stranger Posted by lovelyone]]> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 18:35:25 -0700 The Stranger
Posted by Hunter78]]> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 17:21:02 -0700 The Stranger Posted by EricaP]]> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:34:09 -0700 The Stranger Posted by chrischrischris]]> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:21:07 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Maryln]]> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:57:20 -0700 The Stranger Posted by True Love Lives At Electric Ladyland ;) . +~+]]> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:05:40 -0700 The Stranger Posted by The Gospel As Intimated By Jimi! :-)]]> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:01:47 -0700 The Stranger Posted by sxysavvybbgirl]]> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:34:04 -0700 The Stranger
it is also nascent, and it's hers.
Posted by barfuss]]> Mon, 17 Sep 2012 22:48:22 -0700 The Stranger All in a day's . . .
You know, cockyballsup says he doesn't think it's particularly good satire, but I think if it fools people (and rest assured, if it fooled you, then it fooled others), then it's pretty decent satire. After all, satire points out the inherent absurdity of an existing situation by distorting or exaggerating it just the tiniest bit.
Posted by nocutename]]> Mon, 17 Sep 2012 22:43:09 -0700 The Stranger
Thank you all for posting. In retrospect (why is it after the fact for me so often? Must be the hormone imbalance! Not enough chocolate, lately--I apologize), I realized AFTER emailing an angry letter to TheNewYorker Magazine that Jenny Allen's entry for this week's "Shouts and Murmurs" was supposed to be a satire. What makes me particularly nervous about such material aimed to poke fun is that religious nuts, Republicans, and shamefully ignorant misogynist pigs like my ex tend to take that shit law-enforcing county mounty seriously.
Note well taken. From now on, I will skip the "Shouts and Murmurs" column in the future.

I wonder if I'll get repercussions from TheNewYorker editors for asking "Who is Jenny Allen, and why do I feel like beating her up until she barfs up a son??" ?
Posted by auntie grizelda]]> Mon, 17 Sep 2012 22:27:28 -0700 The Stranger Posted by portland scribe]]> Mon, 17 Sep 2012 12:48:18 -0700 The Stranger Posted by cockyballsup]]> Mon, 17 Sep 2012 11:22:36 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Crinoline]]> Mon, 17 Sep 2012 05:41:29 -0700 The Stranger
Oui, it's definitely mocking our societies deification of moms. I found it pretty funny. Of course the not-funny part is how true it is (that this kind of belief is commonplace). So I can understand why it would be an upsetting read for you, satire or no.

Personally, there are few people I hold in higher regard than people who make a conscious choice not to reproduce especially if that choice is due to the awareness that they would not make fit parents.
Posted by mydriasis]]> Mon, 17 Sep 2012 05:23:07 -0700 The Stranger Posted by nocutename]]> Mon, 17 Sep 2012 00:38:03 -0700 The Stranger
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2012/09/1…
Posted by EricaP]]> Sun, 16 Sep 2012 23:55:51 -0700 The Stranger TheNewYorker.com)??

I'm 48, pre-menopausal, and loopy as a loon without chocolate, so who cares whether or not I ever have a truckload of kids, right? Is the U.S hellbound in becoming a terminally misogynous police-state?
EricaP, mydriasis, Crinoline, Eirene,...? What's your take? If Jenny Allen's submitted article was supposed to be a joke, then I find it in very poor taste for those of us gals who, for whatever our reason(s), chose to remain childless, and I know I'm not the only one out there.
Posted by auntie grizelda]]> Sun, 16 Sep 2012 23:21:45 -0700 The Stranger Posted by yookah]]> Sun, 16 Sep 2012 21:03:24 -0700 The Stranger "because I know her well, I think I know the best way to handle this with her"

Glad to hear that you have a plan and you're confident she will appreciate the gift. If you decide to come back and let us know how it went, I'm sure many people would be interested.
Posted by EricaP]]> Sun, 16 Sep 2012 20:58:00 -0700 The Stranger It seems like you missed the message. I had a stepmom with a very similar attitude and information as you, and I'm saying it freaked me out.

That is great if your niece is confident and open to share enough with you that getting a sex toy for her seems like the most normal thing to do. Many posters mentioned the missing information on your niece and her personality make it difficult to say how appropriate advice is.

I fail to see how, as you say, that you're living in a very liberal, progressive culture, there would be any need for you to make a move like this at all. People who know how to use the internet, as it seems this next generation does, can find their own sex toy. Are you really confident she wants non-penis shaped toys just as you happened to?

If you actually do it please let us at least know how it goes. There were a significant enough minority of women who posted on here who would have loved one at the age, it just happens to be far less than those of us who cringe at the thought of an adult relative doing something like that at a sensitive stage. The creep factor of what you asked about is way too big for a bunch of total strangers posting with limited information to ignore.
Posted by CDN]]> Sun, 16 Sep 2012 20:54:36 -0700 The Stranger