The blog roll keeps on entertaining:

Take, for example, the sexual phenomenon of “wife-sharing” that occupies a small province of polyamory: so many of those men who get off on being cuckolded locate their desire, consciously or unconsciously, in the fact that they are trading women as commodities.  Or take the BDSM community and then try to imagine how such desire would ever be produced (if social consciousness follows social being) in a mode of production where oppression and exploitation are unknown.  Take the sexual fetish community as a whole and investigate the class origin of the values they espouse…

This is priceless, folks. The class origin of the values espoused by fetishists is hard-core humor. And then people say Canadians are not funny.

Now the part that is a little less hilarious is that this guy teaches somewhere in Toronto.

Spain’s right-wing party attempted to ban abortion and ended up re-energizing the country’s feminist movement. The party has been eviscerated in every public space and has had to start moving away from this proposal. Spanish leading newspaper El País began publishing articles of the “Males Are Weapons of Mas Destruction” variety.

I have no idea how these clowns have gotten onto my blog roll but you’ve got to read this, folks. This is priceless:

So how can Republicans attack the birth-control mandate without being declared at war with women? How about just looking at the economics of it, which are very simple? Birth control isn’t expensive, I’m told, (about $25 a month). So why should it be covered by insurance at all? Insurance is meant to protect people from unpredictable and catastrophic expenses that they can’t budget for. That’s why automobile insurance covers collision and liability, not oil changes and tire rotations.

We’ve been weeping with laughter here for the past ten minutes. It’s incredible that there is a loser who is equally ignorant about birth control, economics, insurance, and even cars. I’ve only been driving for about two minutes but even I know that the idea of monthly oil changes and tire rotations is kind of bizarre. And how about the “health insurance exists only to protect people from the catastrophic” part?

It’s not good to laugh at the developmentally challenged, so I should stop.

A blogger says women who prance around the shared locker room naked bother her and adds:

I know my uncomfortableness might sound like I have body issues but I am very comfortable with my body (most days) but I still think my private parts should not be expose anywhere, even in women’s only locker room.

No, dear blogger, you don’t have body issues. What you have is a high degree of respect for your personal boundaries and any attempt to violate them disturbs you. And that is very normal and healthy.

Nobody has the right to inflict their nakedness on us without our explicit consent. Wanting to work out at a gym does not equal consent. Nothing equals consent. Somehow it’s supposed to be less intrusive when people of the same gender with us wave their body parts around us than people of another gender. I honestly don’t see much difference, though.

Now that I go to the gym, I have also noticed that, in spite of the many opportunities my gym provides to get changed behind a curtain, some people still choose to turn their nakedness into a public spectacle. I find that rude and obnoxious.

The need to strip in front of strangers who have not asked you to do so is not extremely healthy, by the way.

I saw this documentary about Mitt Romney advertised on Netflix yesterday and wondered who values their time little enough to watch something so outdated and irrelevant. Apparently, such people do exist.

It would have never occurred to me to sit through two hours of footage about John Kerry (whom I supported) and his boring memories about his father a year after he lost the presidential election. The guy had to serve a purpose, failed to fulfill it, so let’s move on.

Kerry and Romney are alike in that they both are very uncharismatic, both move like they have swallowed a baseball bat, both tried to run against a charismatic and widely supported incumbent, both lost.

It is very bizarre to me how people attach to politicians and develop an emotional fixation on them. A politician is like a plumber or a car mechanic: a professional who us supposed to perform a service. If that service is not performed we don’t rhapsodize the professional who failed to do the job for years to come.

Coca Cola’s profits are threatened so now the company believes in global warming.

This is good news because our politicians have no interest in what scientists say but are in thrall to potential campaign donors.