I'm still OOC (Out Of Commission, an old Navy abbreviation) and I'm still trying to get an appointment with the orthopedic doctor to get evaluated. I won't lie, I'm really nervous at this point. My knee doesn't hurt so much these days but I can't stand on it and it won't bend very far. The longer I go without treatment the more scared I am that this will become permanent. I can get around alright, it takes a lot of effort but for the most part I'm pretty used to my crutches so its not that big a deal. Three weeks without work though is too fucking much. I've spending a lot of time on Twitch so feel free to head on over there and give me a follow. Oh and I made a new comic page BUT I forgot to save the damn thing when the program crashed and I lost all the work I had done. At some point today I hope to go back and finish it so I can post it Friday.
We were at Target yesterday when I saw an issue of Cosmopolitan. Three of the four headlines were about sex, typical "How to satisfy him in bed" type of bullshit. So naturally we started making fun of the magazine that we judged entirely by it's cover. I'm not 100% sure about Cosmo's roots but I've heard the magazine in the past respond to criticism about it's choice of topics by claiming they are a "magazine that focuses on cultural topics." Yeah right. There's a reason I call it Sexmopolitan, the front cover ALWAYS has headlines about sex topics. I wouldn't be so bothered by it if the headlines were more than just the act of having sex. Sex is an important part of our lives don't get me wrong but if you're going to talk about it talk about ALL OF IT.
When my daughter and I finally have "the talk" (which is going to be really soon) I'm not going to tell her what sex is and leave it at that. I want to make sure she knows what sex does to your relationship with your partner. Think about it, have you ever thought or felt the same way about someone AFTER you had sex with them? I'm willing to bet you haven't and that's not something that get's talked about very often. Sex can strengthen your bond with another but at the same time it can also ruin it. Who you have sex with is just as if not more important than how. I feel like every time the mainstream media wants to talk about sex its telling women "You just need to satisfy him and he's yours!" But why is your sexual prowess all that matters when it comes to satisfying a lover? Don't you think "he" will be satisfied with you in bed if he's satisfied with you out of it as well? And what's all this bullshit about too many partners? Who cares how many partners? As long as you're practicing safe sex then all are safe and don't even try and hit me with that "dirty slut" garbage either. If men can have 20 partners and brag about it women can too. And fellas, what the fuck? Why does she have to work for it but you don't? I have to work for it, I have to earn it and when I do I'm damn happy about it. You should be just as focused on keeping her satisfied as she is "supposed to" be on keeping you satisfied. Sure we all have our kinks and we all like to have sex our own dirty or not so dirty way and we all love to talk about that. But we're only kidding ourselves if we don't talk about how sex can shape our relationships with one another. If we aren't careful things can get really weird, really fucking quick.
So I'm thinking about making Youtube videos again but I'm not sure what content I should create. Should I stick with the atheist topics or move on to something else? I play a lot of video games and I'm a big comic fan (although for financial reasons I've fallen way behind) but i also would like to do more activism. Feminist topics as well as LGBT issues are at the top of my radar these days. I don't know. It wasn't that hard for me to get a few hundred views depending on the topic I chose but I had to choose carefully. The biggest reason I gave up was because when I posted videos about lighthearted topics like game playing or just making jokes no one watched them. When I posted about negative topics like Christy Mack getting beaten or Fred Phelps dying then everyone wanted to watch. In a way I felt like I was feeding the hate beast and I don't want to do that. We'll see, if you have any ideas drop me a comment because right now I feel like unless I'm Pewdie Pie or Phillip DeFranco I'm not going to get noticed unless I come across as an angry, bitter old man.