Thanks to the hard work of Argenti Aertheri and the suggestions of various other Boobzers, the Man Boobz survey is now up and ready to be taken. It will give me — and all of you — a better picture of just what sort of people read Man Boobz on a regular basis. It’s completely anonymous. Go take it! It will only take a few minutes.
I will probably leave it up for a couple of days, and will report the results here as soon as the numbers are crunched.
I think pretty much any other question you might have about it will probably be answered on the survey itself, so hop to it!
Thanks Argenti!
It’s the magic of the internet! In all seriousness, the fact that people can randomly run across perspectives that they may never have been exposed to before is often a really positive thing.
Also, in case anyone’s wondering about the random username change, having my name as “Aaliyah” everywhere I go isn’t very appealing to me anymore because I don’t want to be too visible. And this current nym is vague enough.
Not southern Missouri. People worship Rush Limbaugh and have tea party rallies all the time. Most of the churches are very conservative, and they won’t accept people who aren’t Republican. But with all its faults, it is home, and that’s where all my family is, all the way out to fifth cousins. And by living in a right wing area, you can help change it and make it better.
Now I were to choose a place in the US to live based on how progressive it is, then it would be Arkansas. That’s why its known as the land of opportunity. California and New England have some wonderful places that are good about equality, but the cost of living is very high. I also think I would be a fish out of water in an area where most people are vegan leftist hippies. I’m not sure how many of them would be interested in beer, barbeque, and fireworks.
My views on sexual violence changed almost completely just by reading stories from survivors of sec on Dancing in the Darkness. Reading those stories was sufficient to prove that rape culture is a thing.
@me
“sec” should be “sexual violence.”
@Bionicmommy
Thanks for the advice 🙂 Me and fireworks are not friends 😛 I currently live in Indiana, but don’t get out much, so I can’t say how things are in my area.
I’m curious to see what hellkell has to say when she arrives, because I’ve heard Austin mentioned as another place that’s good for people who’re looking for somewhere tolerant and left-leaning. Not sure how high the cost of living is though.
http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/06/13/arguments-from-my-opponent-believes-something/
A few logical fallacies to add to the list.
Fuckin’ exorbitant, as you’d expect.
Speaking of fireworks, there seem to be people in my neighborhood setting them off recently (I hear the loud pop but don’t see them). Bah humbug, get off my free range organic lawn, etc.
Also, Marie: Boulder, Colorado is a hippie-ish new-age place that is very liberal, pro-feminist, pro-LGBT, etc. I lived there for 5 years. Most people there are very friendly, tolerant, and outgoing.
Give it up for one of my old Seattle ‘hoods! Although I will reserve most of my love for Ballard, which where you when you’ve had ENOUGH of Capitol Hill and the Broadway gauntlet day in day out.
I’ve heard that too, but I freely admit I’m just getting that from Slacker.
Fucking TEXAS. Blarghh. Austin is the most expensive place in TX to live, and yeah, it’s tolerant. Great if you like excessive heat, shit drivers, bad food, and did I mention the heat?
The food is bad? I could tolerate the heat, but shitty food is a definite no.
My biggest beef with Austin is that it keeps pretending it’s this weird little oasis, when not so much. It needs infrastructure to keep up with the insane growth.
The state in general needs to find revenue apart from property taxes, as it’s pricing people out of once-affordable neighborhoods.
Oh, and Bozeman, Montana is another left-leaning, liberal place. I’m not sure if it’s a cheap place to live, though, and it’s kind of isolated. (It is Montana, after all).
I’d recommend Santa Cruz if it weren’t for the fact that the cost of living there is almost as high as that of SF.
Cassandra: if you want ethnic food that is not Mexican, you will have to go to Houston if you want it good.
As someone living in the central valley of California, I can attest that it’s a pretty conservative part of the state. My high school had a GSA but it was super quiet and hush-hush. After Bush got elected the second time, my history teacher did a vote in class to see who we would have elected and it was Bush. A local minister once wrote a letter to the editor in our newspaper stating that the high instance of depression and self-harm among our youth was because they were “dabbling in the occult” – no one disputed this. Half of my friends would be disowned if they came out to their parents. One of our family friends was shocked to met my grandfather, because she had never met an atheist before and was only vaguely aware they existed. I kind of want out but the rent in the Bay Area gives me a heart attack!
On the subject of “best places to live in terms of general equality” I know quite a few queer, non-traditonal-relationship-having, non-Christian people living in Eugene, Oregon.
Can’t argue with the rent (as Seattle goes, anyway), but I’d rather deal with hippies than get robbed, personally. It’s also ground zero for Washington’s cultiest megachurch.
Katz: never had a problem with either. I think the MHC people come in from all over.
The one time I did get broken into, it was on Capitol Hill.
Fair enough; living in a higher crime area obvs doesn’t mean you’re guaranteed to get robbed, nor is living elsewhere any guarantee that you won’t.
I lived in Green Lake in Seattle and in Noe Valley in San Francisco, but I keep moving back to my funny little home town, which is the blue spot in the middle of mostly red Virginia.
The problem with Colorado is that it’s very polarized, you have your left leaning areas like Boulder and FoCo. But then you also have places like Co Springs, which is very right wing.
So, for examle, in 2006 we added a “Definition of Marriage” amendment in our state constitution, but then this year civil unions were legalized; so there’s that?