Note to readers with sensitive eyes: I realize the comma has made perhaps too prominent an appearance in this particular post. Considering the nature of it, though, I don’t have the energy to edit just now. Please ignore the extra scaffolding. My intentions were good.
Oof. Just wrote a hard letter to my parents. Hard because [...]
Posts Tagged ‘relationships’
Comedy and Decorum
Posted in relationships, tagged communication, family, friendship, miscommunication, relationships on January 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Following the breadcrumb trail on Polyamory
Posted in relationships, sex, tagged difference, marriage, poly, polyamory, relationships on October 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Jezebel had a short article on Polyamory yesterday that links to longer, more interesting articles on the subject. Okay, marginally more interesting articles, but it’s nice to see that we’re making it into the NYT and the WaPo. Something about us is going mainstream. The WaPo seems to think that we’re all old farts. Ok… [...]
More on polyamory and making a context for flirting
Posted in relationships, tagged alienation, alt-sex, alternative lifestyles, poly, polyamory, relationships on July 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Following up on my posts, The Ethics of Being the Other One (vaguely) and Flirting Within Context, as well as Goose’s post entitled Lounge, who mentions this article from The Stranger, Seattle’s Daily Newspaper, the subject of which is basically summed up by a paragraph from the article:
Max and I were at the gym recently, [...]
Miscellaneous Patriarchy Pwnage
Posted in feminism, politics, relationships, tagged feminism, gender, patriarchy, personal-as-political, relationships on July 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A piece of conversation from last weekend (for context, we were playing a drinking game and I had just lost):
Male Friend 1: You have to chug it.
Me: I’ll drink this beer, but you are crazy if you think I’m chugging a Sam Adam’s
MF1: (following some unsubtle hints at how I am not awesome and reasoning [...]
What to do when you’ve done it all?
Posted in relationships, sex, tagged marriage, relationships, sex on July 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Chelsea Summers is playing Dear Abby today to a couple of middle aged, long-term committed men, and as a long-term committed man, I think her advice is excellent, if a little general. I think the real issue is that we all develop hangups, reactions, expectations, and habits about our partners over time, some to our [...]
Do jerks really get laid more, or is that phrase just an excuse?
Posted in relationships, sex, tagged casual encounters, dating, feminism, feministe, jerks, relationships, sex on June 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’m going to join this thread of discussion. The discussion starts at Feministe with Do Jerks get laid more?, which is a discussion on some peer-reviewed pychology research on college-age men and “dark traits” affecting their number of sexual partners. It continues in Smart Girls who do it: Why “nice” guys don’t get laid as [...]
Parliament, Heinz, Mayonnaise and Gay Men
Posted in politics, relationships, tagged gay rights, lgbt, media, politics, relationships, same-sex on June 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A headline like that just begs for a writeup by the Eclectic Hedonist.
The story is that Heinz in Britain pulled an ad for mayonnaise showing two men kissing after hundreds of people complained. Now, if the story had ended there with much consternation from Fox News, Focus on the Family, ABC, NBC, CBS, and so [...]
Attempted Divorce
Posted in politics, relationships, tagged gay divorce, gay marriage, gay rights, relationships, same-sex divorce, same-sex marriage on June 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
From American Public Media’s The Story.
Cassandra Ormiston (warning, this is a podcast) has been fighting the state of Rhode Island for her right to divorce her legally married lesbian partner for years. They are out of money and out of energy to continue fighting for the divorce there, and Cassandra is moving back to [...]
Egalitarian relationships
Posted in feminism, relationships, tagged egalitarianism, feminism, gay marriage, relationships, same-sex marriage on June 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Rather than asking people to follow a link trail, I’m going to link both to the NY Times’ article and to Feministing’s article on egalitarianism in same-sex relationships. The NY Times’ article is good, but it’s missing something without Feministing’s article dissecting it.
From the NY Times Article:
The findings offer hope that some of the [...]
Flirting within context
Posted in geekery, polyamory, relationships, sex, tagged alt-sex, alternative communities, flirting, geekery, relationships, wiscon on May 31, 2008 | 3 Comments »
So I saw this post the other day, and I thought about it. I don’t really know how to flirt, and Sex Geek is right… the alt-sex community has lost the art of seduction to the admirable goal of open and clear communication. Even as liberated as we are, I don’t know [...]
