Perhaps behind our insistence of “preference” and “desirability” lurks something far more insidious, far uglier than we first thought. When talking with the foreigner female community in Japan, the topic of dating Japanese men usually comes up and we quickly bemoan how so many of them really don’t want to date us. We curse, shake […]
Instead of focusing on creating a uniform when your job doesn’t actually require one, people should stop focusing on what women are wearing. Get your goddamn judgy nose out of my goddamn personal style. The terror. The horror. Standing in front of my closet at 6:55am in the morning, peering in between the overly patterned dresses […]
I wanted to have sex when I was 15, and you probably did too. My own teenage years are pressed into the back of my mind, and from a certain angle, in a particularly rosy light, they are nostalgic rather than shameful and full of bad decisions. I sometimes pull out an anecdote or two, […]
