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Cake day: July 16th, 2023

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  • People can be ignorant and even sexist without being manosphere. Neither of those strikes me as super Joe Rogan or Ben Shapiro-ey.

    But yeah, we’re living in two separate worlds, and when a person ignores what half of us experience, it’s no different from a white person saying that black people just need to be polite to the police, the way they are. (As a teenager, I was regrettably that white person. But I’ve grown, and so can others in that situation)












  • Yeah, no, I just made a bunch of assumptions and didn’t clarify them.

    I was imagining OPs neighbors gave them a bunch of stuff as a housewarming/welcome to the neighborhood/we’ve got a bunch of cucumbers this year thing. Buying it from their farmstand is totally different and I could even imagine OP chatting to them about how to can pickles in a friendly way.

    But if I’d given someone home canned pickles and they decided that paying for cucumbers and taking the time to can them was better than accepting mine for free, I would probably worry about how I’d fucked them up. Like, I would definitely not be mad (though I can see a personality type who would), I’d just feel rejected.

    Of course, if they’re just super into canning, that’s one thing, but then I’d probably just invite them over to do it together.






  • I got curious, so I looked into this a little. I cross-referenced this for circumcision rates, and Wikipedia for HIV rates.

    Cultural differences in preference were evident among some of the studies examined. Nevertheless, a preference for a circumcised penis was seen in most populations regardless of the frequency of MC in the study setting.

    They say that, but every one of those studies falls into one of three categories: the women polled come from a place where more than half the population is circumcised; they come from a place with lower than 50% circumcision rates and prefer uncircumcised penises; or they come from a place with lower than 50% circumcision rates and elevated HIV risk (which might affect women’s preferences).


  • Women prefer it if that’s all they know/if their uncircumcised partners aren’t very hygienic. I’m an American woman and grew up thinking uncircumcised penises were gross, but they feel better inside me and it’s way more fun to give a clean, uncircumcised penis a blowjob. It’s more obvious and unpleasant when an uncircumcised penis is dirty though.

    I was recently a bridesmaid for one of my friends from high school, and we talked about circumcision- all the friends I had growing up who were also grossed out by uncut penises who have actually had sex with a person with one agreed that they prefer them. It’s not something I would hold against a partner or anything (and my husband had phimosis, so he got a partial circumcision in his teens), but penises are naturally well formed for the purpose of enjoyable sex.