Opposing messages: You are supposed to be sexy and love sex. But if you are sexy or have sex, you’re a terrible person.

This is why our young people are insane. (Not to mention our old people, and everyone.)

You mean to tell me that teenagers will still do something fun, even if it’s dangerous? My word! *clutches pearls*

I like to approach the issue by talking about getting past gender roles and norms. It includes benefits for both boys and girls – girls won’t be taught to be submissive and boys won’t be taught to be dominating and violent. Boys and girls and men and women can act however they want without being [...]

Yes, being drunk at night while being a woman in women’s clothing is “behaving badly.” When are we finally going to get to the point when we can acknowledge that raping people is the bad behavior? Men can get drunk and stumble around in the middle of the night without getting raped, why can’t we? [...]

I guess if they’re going to let the gays be gay, they might as well let the women soldiers be all the way soldiers. Progress, 2013!

Part of the story? Ed, you just created a whole new story.

There goes his career. I hope.

I guess you’re always going to upset someone whether you use trigger warnings or not. But I agree with you, Maya. In interactions with traumatized individuals, I err on the side of caution. I think that the more humans work to take each other’s feelings into consideration in everyday life, the better our world becomes. [...]

On the spectrum of sexual orientation, I consider myself to be pretty straight. But I have had a lot more exposure to the gay community. What I was trying to say was that due to the physical differences between men and women. Of course, due to cultural/societal influences, the lives of homosexuals are different from [...]

Thank you, my friend, for that is a fantastic idea for a spinoff piece. I did briefly consider mentioning that this situation excludes transexual/transgender peoples, but I thought it would distract from the point and, honestly, I don’t know as much as I should about the perspective of transgendered individuals. In fact, I invite any [...]