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May 2015

May 28, 2015

5 Things We Should Think About Before We Say “Slut-Shaming”

Hyphenate the word "shaming," and boom, you've got a ready-made evil, a buzzword everyone on...

May 25, 2015

Death, Split Selves, and Demons: The Dopest Album on Your Otherwise Dopeless iPod

When I first played twenty one pilots' new album, Blurryface, I was not looking to be...

March 2015

March 17, 2015

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and LOVE My Smartphone

I was on an anti-technology soapbox for a while. But I realized something today, and I've...

June 2014

June 17, 2014

Women Swiftly Running Out Of Things That Aren’t Sexy

I expect the world to go about its regular denigration of women -- I just...

May 2014

May 24, 2014

Why Christians Say “Encounter”

Christians have adopted the term “encounter” to describe a standard run-in with God. We inchworm...

April 2014

April 03, 2014

Planned Parenthood and the Myth of the Sheepish, Dependent, Ethically Mono-chromed Woman

Planned Parenthood use the term "women" to demarcate a group they support, trust, and represent....

April 02, 2014

Planned Parenthood and the Myth of the Sheepish, Dependent, Ethically Mono-chromed Woman (Introduction)

Planned Parenthood stand with “women.” Assumedly this means something. It cannot mean that Planned Parenthood...

February 2014

February 27, 2014

7 Totally Epic Rules For Writing on the Internet

Rule number 6 is so incredibly true, it hurts. 1. A prostitute has sex for money....

February 24, 2014

A Great Conflation

Part 2 of a series. Seeking to find out who-we-are from the observation of what-we-usually-do...

February 20, 2014

Magic and Myers-Briggs

Personality tests can be accurate and helpful. People taking these tests tend to scare me....

January 2014

January 29, 2014

Why Name-calling is Exactly What It Sounds Like

If I could offer a single corrective to our culture, a solitary word to collar-yank...

January 28, 2014

Too Much Information

Honesty can be dishonest. The over-emotional, tell-all status-update we awkwardly scroll past is a brilliant revelation...

January 27, 2014

Dirty Secrets of the Gay Male Subculture: A Brief Bolster

I've read something brilliant, and I want to tell you about it. It was a...

October 2013

October 14, 2013

A Possible Anthropological Origin of the Duck-face

All objectification tends towards murder, all self-objectification to suicide, for the only time a person is...

September 2013

September 20, 2013

Dear NARAL

I read Pope Francis' beautiful, bold and otherwise death-defying interview. Then I read this. So...

July 2013

July 07, 2013

Eyeball the Enemy

Eye-contact is a fascinating phenomenon. With our beloved, it is a delight. With a stranger...

June 2013

June 19, 2013

Ghosts With Erections

This is so blisteringly obvious that it's hardly worth mentioning, but there is a difference...

May 2013

May 22, 2013

Far Better To Be Ourselves

The problem with classifying people into understandable concepts -- whether "gay," "conservative," or any of...

May 21, 2013

No Longer Anonymous: Why I Decided to Come Out as a Gay Priest

Bravely facing the applause of a world in love with labels, and just in time...

May 17, 2013

Quick, Label Me!

Labels are not concerned with the accurate description of people. In fact, they work against description by...

May 12, 2013

Is the “Purity Culture” Sexist?

When discussing purity as it relates to our awesome, sexually-liberated culture, it's best to begin with...

May 09, 2013

Catholic. Nuff Said.

When I modify the word "Catholic" with some preceding description -- be it traditional Catholic, liberal...