As the con grew in popularity over the years, so did moral panic about its queerness. One story claimed a furry left a hotel elevator covered in “jizz,” Strike notes. Another said a convention goer walked around with “nothing more than a Dixie cup covering his genitals.” Merlino’s ...
Shame can be crippling and debilitating. Both these adjectives mean making someone unable to deal with the situation. They can feel so badly about what they have done that they find it difficult to move forward emotionally. Sam We then...
Crossing this positional manipulation with the contrast between ambiguous and bad map stimuli yielded four exposure conditions: (1) ambiguous sounds occurring late in words (Late Ambiguous); (2) ambiguous sounds occurring early in words (Early Ambiguous); (3) bad map sounds occurring late in words...
However, the situation is different with respect to cultural differences. As of today, we can say little about the cross-cultural differences versus similarities between implicit measures of color-valence associations; while we have a solid body of research on explicit color associations from different...
And let’s not forget New York’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Not only is she a Democratic Socialist, but the 29-year-old will be the youngest woman ever elected to Congress! With so many new faces and so much more representation, is it too much to ask for a change in the way things...
And that was in a good school district. I was like, Jeez, once that lid comes unscrewed, watch out. Japanese people aren’t shy when they’re the one holding the stick. Students are just conditioned by abuse from those charged with protecting them. They learn that if they joke around,...
I can think of a lot of other adjectives that better describe the mood this cover evokes. If I had to pick just one, I’d go with “dreamy” (not dreamy as in a dreamy movie idol but dreamy as in twinkle, twinkle late at night, come hither bedroom eyes, backless boudoir wear, coo...
and you know that that will only make you feel worse. You want to feel outgoing, so you decide you’ll go to the class acting like you are feeling that way: standing up straight, making eye contact and starting conversations with people. The reactions you’ll get will reinforce your outg...
TheGettydid. That’s because the Getty is a museum dedicated to art — specifically art made in Europe before the modern era, plus photographs. It knows what it’s about. What it’s not about is art hemmed in by hollow adjectives, like so-called “narrative” ...
Her long hair fell in front of her face and blew slightly when the tent flap opened and in walked a young and very handsome man.Young and very handsome. Charles is arguably an equally important character in the scene, but he gets two adjectives in comparison to the paragraph Dela got ...