Are you sure he’s in jr high and not a troll persona (faking being a kid so you look bad if you slap him down?) That is pretty scripted for jr high.

There were a couple in my high school too. Utah, class of ‘99.

I’ve been trying to figure out who to ask about it—I just don’t feel like the GP I go to is good for these questions. I used to have a wonderful NP, and she figured out the bc that literally keeps me from bleeding to death, but she retired a few years back.

Anyone know if any of them are good for people who have…

She didn’t have a successful career. She was hoping to transition to one as a writer while depending on him having a steady income. Meanwhile he had also discovered enough to realize he was interested in teaching. Many people continue to grow and learn as they age and take on new career goals in their mid twenties,…

Seriously? Sure, great if she chose to be celibate. Whatever, her body, her choice. But to then owe it to her FATHER and sign a pledge and give a certificate to HIM as the master of her hymen is still creepy (and notice it is to him, not them, Mom isn’t owed this?) The problem is not about her choosing to abstain or…

Ditto—Just married and I want to be part of the family—and I am not going to ask him to change his name away from the kids, that would be hard on them. (Even if they expect women to do it.) But it is made worse in that I do have the whole family thing going on with ties to my dad (now deceased) and he isn’t attached…

See, (and there is no good way to say this, and I am sorry about that) this is a problem many transwomen (and transmen) seem to have in really heavily buying into a lot of romanticized gender role stuff that most feminists find to be complete creepy/gross/wrong (along with the mostly just annoying/wrong stuff like…

“I have assisted women in labor who have “intact”, stretchy hymens, and even seen babies born over that hymen twice.”

OMG—the Virgin Mary suddenly seems like a possibility...

Which that is the conversation that really needs to happen, but who wants (and sometimes it is dares) to be the one to explain this?

I read it as her saying she wishes she could trade up to that sort of harrassment from the kind she gets, and that I can feel with her. It can be hard to listen to “ew, they whistled at me and leered” when ‘they’ are are making it clear your grotesque existence is unwelcome in their universe.

Mostly as an anti-English thing, I think.

Too hard to standardize—and that it is standard is important in many situations. Like in hospital emergency rooms. And if we make it too easy to personalize, you risk the protections (weak as they arguably are) built into it for traditionally oppressed partners. Like homemakers, or women in traditional communities....

Or change them to anything other than couples because of the way they are written/defined. Spouse 1/Spouse 2 is no big deal. Who has which rights and responsibilities in a 3+ situation is trickier.

Basically. It has you declare that you are both legally able to wed, and to wed each other. And hopefully weed out people who are not and don’t realize it.

I will own to this applying to me. My husband (Woot—day 7!) started out less than visually attractive (although I was drawn to him—I’m not very visual anyway.) And I do think part of that is that here in Utah I had interacted with VERY few black men. And media portrayals don’t add to the warm fuzzy associations. As we…

You know Hollywood would ruin it by making it be her pissed off ancestors or her beloved inert-male-character (brother, boyfriend, father) being the truly scary one.

“police settled on Langjahr, and the case was put aside while more pressing matters were taken care of.”

How awful. It basically is saying the cops shrugged and decided “oh, it is a nobody who was killed, who cares” shrugged and forgot about her. Could you imagine finding out 40+ years later that when they thought that…

This is an old post, but I just have to share that I just purchased a package of “bless your heart” thank you notes from the Dollar Tree...

If someone faked my child’s death, believe you me there would be a REAL death.

I have to wait for later—still at work for 2.5 hrs...
But is that does not limit you, my vote is now.