It may be a little catty for me to laugh at this bit from a bio, but I'm laughing anyway.

As a theatre educator, he is always striving to help inspire young artists to develop their skills in a comfortable and supportive way while providing them with incite into the industry.

Oh, homophones.

This is the sort of bullshit that I'm up against:

One of the earliest observations in what would eventually become medical science was that male behavior changed drastically when the testicles were damaged or removed. Cultures as old as the Sumerians understood this. Thus, to damage a man's testicles was to damage his manliness, and that was a fate worse than death to many.

Wut? Drastically change their behaviour? The thought never even entered my mind except for the part where you IMPRESS DEEPLY UPON THEM TO NEVER RAISE A HAND TO ME AGAIN. Telling me I shouldn't do it because I might results I want is going to be a frustrating argument.

I'm trying to decide if I should add a facial hair section to provocateuse.

What would I call it? This is what I currently have: [link] on a very under-designed front page. Mother *fuck* I need to fix that. But I have zero inspiration. And I don't know how best to SEO seed the front page with so little of the content.

Any suggestions?

Mnnf. Just got an email from my best friend saying "Never mind about the coding question, TTYL." Uh, coding question? Is that why the light on my land line has been blinking for a few days? Uh, oops? And I suck?

But I really have a difficulty right now with "extra" conversations. The amount of talking I do at work (which is a *lot*, because of how I work my relationships with the business) is just draining me. I wish I had more left over for her. She's never been anything other than there for me, even (or especially) when she's going through a hard time.

One of the earliest observations in what would eventually become medical science was that male behavior changed drastically when the testicles were damaged or removed. Cultures as old as the Sumerians understood this. Thus, to damage a man's testicles was to damage his manliness, and that was a fate worse than death to many.

This is not necessarily a bad thing, sounds like these dudes could do with a little less macho.

And also is a nut shot actually going to provide permanent damage? I'm going to say no, a vast majority of the time.

...WHY AM I APPLYING REASON??

Also, and I know this might be a far too general thing to apply to all men, when we are talking about a specific group of douches (though it's probably a widely shared philosophy in the Land of the Living Douche), but I find myself caring less and less about what dudes want respected on their bodies when it is clear that respect for what I want to do with my own body, as a woman, is steadily and ENTHUSIASTICALLY eroded legislatively.

I did point out to him that, modestly, I've kicked a bunch of dudes in the nuts, and it really didn't have any far reaching effects except for the everything's on fire right now in mindblowing pain.

Which I dig--we all like to avoid pain from time to time, especially pain that's short-circuiting you, as opposed just sending noisy signals to your brain. The pain is a lot more than feet-meet-nut.

But the seat of your persona isn't actually between your legs...

Or is it? Hec, you'd tell us if that were true, right?

People will say "Bless you," but he keeps sneezing.

Q: "What's the secret of your long life?"

Mel Brooks as the 2000-year-old man: "I sneeze a lot. Every time I sneeze, someone says 'God bless you.'"

On a semi-related note, and also thanks to reading other things on the internet, am I OK to roll my eyes just a little at people who are angry when people use language that implies (e.g.) that the group of people with penises is the same as the group of men?

I realize the groups are not 100% congruent, but seriously? We can't talk about women's reproductive rights anymore?

Yep.

Awesome. I would have been so tempted to yell "MR. BEEBE! MATCHES!!" at him.

Happy Birthday askye!