Reading all your posts about flibanserin/Addyi I started to wonder what you and other aces thought about viagra, which aside from the nasty side-effects, is the same drug but for men.
theasexualityblog-deactivated20:
FLIBANSERIN/ADDYI IS NOT THE FEMALE EQUIVALENT OF VIAGRA!!!
That claim is completely erroneous and based on dishonest and downright atrocious marketing.
Flibanserin increases sexual desire/libido by altering the levels of neurochemicals (namely serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine). Viagra does NOT do this. Viagra deals with the physiology not responding to existing libido/sexual desire. The female equivalent of Viagra is lubricant, not Flibanserin.
Viagra doesn’t make the attempt to “normalize” sexual desire and/or dictate how often one should have “sexually satisfying experiences”. It’s a take-as-needed pill that one uses to get their body parts to cooperate with the libido they already possess. Flibanserin/Addyi’s marketing is claiming that those who do not reach a certain level of sexual desire are not “normal” and that they need a pill to correct that. This is the problem in relation to asexuality.
Viagra dialates the veins in the penis to create an erection. Flibanserin is NOT like viagra. flibanserin is the kind of thing people would put slip into peoples drinks to make them more willing to have sex. it’s something that will probably lead to more rape.
nightguardmod:
a-random-mod:
adurot:
avaomod:
I thought Attack on Titan was pretty good.
It’s ok. I kept watching it. It’s not Bad, but not as good as the hype suggests. Mostly suffers from pacing issues IMHO.
It’s not bad it’s just a generic anime with nothing new to bring. I mean, the animation is pretty good but nothing that actually matters is present. The characters are cliche.
For me, it was more fatigue with the fans that acted as if were the be all and end all. The show itself I haven’t seen, since I was turned off by the tumblr hype. Most fans are cool. And a lot of the cosplay I’ve seen is effing awesome.
That’s also a big part of it. There ARE better animes like one piece and FMAB which have better written characters, a simple motivation and a quieter fandom.
adurot:
nephrited:
deeceeoh:
nephrited:
In my 5 long years of being the president of the regions largest anime society, I learnt that it’s the snobs who actively go on about how bad certain popular animes are are the ones that get ostracized the fastest.
Obviously that doesn’t apply to the internet, where the “counter-culture”-culture where hating on popular things is cool, but damn is it tiresome.
The internet is a lovely little bundle of hatred. :\
People can like or dislike whatever the hell they want, it doesn’t affect me.
I’ve just seen the same post 5 or 6 times now in the last two days, with various popular anime names substituted in place, and it reminded me of what happened to people who went off on rants about how bad show X or Y was in real life. I generally stepped in with “People are allowed to like what they want, don’t worry, we won’t force you to watch anything here”.
Hating on things that don’t really affect the given individual all that much isn’t cool.
I may bring up stuff I don’t/didn’t like, but I won’t suggest you have you hate them too. I’ve enjoyed too many things that are popularly “bad” to do otherwise.
I think a big problem is because something is overhyped. The fans go on and on about how amazing it is but when you actually sit down and watch it and think about it for a bit, you find it’s not as good as people make it out to be. Either that or the constant exposure to something tends to get annoying and you look for any reason to hate it. it’s the same reason people hate frozen. People went on and on about how amazing it was when it’s not really as amazing as people say and the merchandise that spawned from it has kept it in our society for years with no sign of letting go.
but yeah, it’s not htat people hate this super amazing thing, it’s that they don’t think it’s amazing and when people want to fight to defend their opinions.
Long story short, respect peoples opinions and don’t overhype something.
adurot:
avaomod:
I thought Attack on Titan was pretty good.
It’s ok. I kept watching it. It’s not Bad, but not as good as the hype suggests. Mostly suffers from pacing issues IMHO.
It’s not bad it’s just a generic anime with nothing new to bring. I mean, the animation is pretty good but nothing that actually matters is present. The characters are cliche.
artbaesel:
jvstxn:
sandandglass:
President Obama on The Colbert Report
yo he real af for this
Is this REALLL
It seems like politicians have been rightfully hard on fox for its bullshit lately and I like it.
