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• Hehehe, the uncomfortable thing here is that it might work. But the video shows the ridiculousness of homophobia because our culture focuses on male bonding over certain activities and yet is prejudiced against gays. It's a no-win situation for some
  (posted to The Onion: An Anti-Smoking Ad)
• Mr. J Medeiros, who wrote this song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqyLRpGgxRs and is actually involved with anti-trafficking projects. He talks about it at about 3:40 in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx6hPIX5Slk
  (posted to Pro-Women Rap?)
• Oh jeez, how is it possible for someone to go through their whole life not recognising their privilege? I know that people make things easier for me because I happen to be caucasian. It didn't take me a million years
  (posted to Not a scientist until she becomes a man.)
• I thought the inuit had very small skulls? Is your book saying that the inuit have low IQ scores or something, and this contradicts the idea of big brains being tied to intelligence, or that they have large brains and
  (posted to Not a scientist until she becomes a man.)
• Trailers like that make me lose faith in filmmaking. It seems like it's going down a plughole.
  (posted to What We Missed )

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• I really think the movie is not showing that all women want to be smacked around and spanked and then submit. It's a movie about characters; there are all kinds of people in the world and not all of them (posted to What We Missed )
• Thankyou so much for writing this. I was so, incredibly upset by this trailer. I've had enough of sensationalized abuse and murder of women in TV and film masquerading as "exploring the darkness of the human psyche". Absolutely disgusting. (posted to What We Missed )
• I posted this comment on the Yes Means Yes article about the Lisa Miller column, but I wanted to post it here too: I do think she’s right in that a lot of college students are not having sex, and (posted to What We Missed )
• Also, for those interested in hearing from the other side of the Harvard "abstinence battle", check out senior Lena Chen (of "Sex and the Ivy" fame) at http://thechicktionary.com/ (posted to What We Missed )
• "chances are the majority of those 80% of college students who have had (posted to What We Missed )

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