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Audy

  • Contests Re: The Short-Count: November Poetry Contest!

    THE WAIT IS OVER! AND THE RESULTS ARE IN! Congratulations! After much deliberations, patience, and cats -- the results are in! @Persy, @indieeloise, @emmylou1995, @Rydia, @Karzkin, @therealme -- Congr

    Oct 31, 2013
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: On-screen sex and violence

    Well can you name a single non-porn film that contains as much sex as Django does violence? Game of Thrones

    Oct 29, 2013
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Raising children gender neutral

    I imagine that a trans woman would feel just the same about her gender identity - no matter how she behaved, or how much she was perceived as being masculine ...

    Oct 29, 2013
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Raising children gender neutral

    I think what you have outlined is not a way of raising a child as gender-neutral, but rather a way of raising a child without strict gender roles (which is ...

    Oct 28, 2013
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Raising children gender neutral

    Okay, so. The English language is a tricky and horrible beast when it comes to this gender/sex/orientation stuff, because it all gets so confusing and convoluted in all these connotations. ...

    Oct 28, 2013
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Girls and Science

    I think the reasons for these gender gaps are less about whether girls are bad at science/math (we know that they are not.) I also don't feel that it's because ...

    Oct 25, 2013
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: On-screen sex and violence

    I don't know about the idea of violence as something that is "more" artfully tasteful. Anything and everything can be art, it all depends on the execution. I understand what ...

    Oct 19, 2013
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: On-screen sex and violence

    Huuh. Young men are not interested in sex? I dunno if the 18+ rating involving nudity has much to do with patriarchal society/women equality, though I think you've hit the ...

    Oct 17, 2013
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Media & Children: Parental Neglect?

    I don't know. As a 10 year old, I watched a LOT of mature stuff that wouldn't be "appropriate" and I turned out alright. It's true I had older siblings. ...

    Oct 15, 2013
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: English at school

    Okay, I'm going to try my best, all this "analysis is no fun" talk is breaking my heart xDDD I know, I know...you just want to enjoy the storytelling. All ...

    Aug 22, 2013
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Martin/Zimmerman

    We have a history of high-profiled/televised court cases, especially during the summer time, if for no other reason than the fact that we love court dramas. Particularly non-fiction ones. Remember ...

    Jul 25, 2013
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Martin/Zimmerman

    Zzap, Those are fine ideas, I just don't understand why you're so impassioned against people having this debate. You may not get anything out of it, and that's fine, but ...

    Jul 24, 2013
  • Official Polls Re: What's your favourite way to end a sentence?

    Good ol' period.

    Jul 22, 2013
  • Lounge, The Re: Aquestioning: YWS' Featured Member July 22 - August 4!

    Congrats Omni!

    Jul 22, 2013
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Martin/Zimmerman

    But according to the witnesses and the phone conversation Martin had with Rachel Jeantel (at 7:16pm) Zimmerman had been following Martin. Martin tried to get away/lose him. This is also ...

    Jul 22, 2013


Edna began to feel like one who awakens gradually out of a dream, a delicious, grotesque, impossible dream, to feel again the realities pressing into her soul.
— Kate Chopin, The Awakening