I would also swear I have seen this almost EXACT same cover elsewhere with a different (white) couple... Do they have just a dozen covers they trade out? Regency or Victorian, set in England...

Fuck, I’ll add in one for all those who failed to vote for lesser evils just for good measure.

Personhood at fertilization, huh? Also a problem for birth control (denying implantation?) And fertility clinics?

Which is why the couple is afraid...

On the other hand, when I was a fetus my mother was not able to get an ultrasound from her doctors because they decided for her that if I shared her physical disability that she would abort me. So they didn’t want her to know.

I’m one of the rare kids of my generation-mid 30's-raised by a wheelchair using parent. Pre ADA, it was enough of a reason to lose custody. It also was not as much of a problem because people with disabilities were not expected to have lives, and were discouraged from dating and such. No jobs. No independence. My mom…

As someone who used to process check-guarentees, I get mad when I am NOT asked.

Taking “Netflix and chill” to a new level..

So, all of the people on the ‘Morphine doesn’t work like that’ train... couldn’t he have given her something else that did? Just because she aassumeed it was morphine doesn’t mean that if that assumption was wrong everything else also is.

Well, now you know what you need to go buy STAT, right?

It is a large part of why I am not a very good regular on Jezebel stories—too many things vanished into the void. Either my commentary is a lot less engaging and brilliant than I like to give myself credit for (probably true) or people just never see my stuff (also quite likely.)

The other part is Kinja hates my phone.…

Or they are brought in to investigate/new rape happened in their jurisdiction and they thought he was such a nice guy...

Especially if ‘healthy enough” included mental health...

And to be fair, it is a big problem for a lot of kids who went through school in gifted and talent type programs—early on you were taught that you had potential and that it would be a horrible shame if you failed that potential and that everyone was (watching and) invested in you meeting your potential. NOT doing…

The problem is when anyone relatively similar to your own situation counts as settling—you get stuck with not being willing to marry anyone willing to marry you...

Well, and maybe a few extra credit-card bills...

Fellow Utah Native: My sister-in-law SERIOUSLY was talking about being a spinster when she met/married my brother when she was 19 (he was 21, so equally young/dumb/in that trap). I married at 34—she had made no bones about the idea that I was doomed, Doomed, DOOMED.

And you can retrain the visual by looking at the right erotica and porn.

Well, when we’ve been told from practically birth that we are too old to be considered partners to raise kids with from about 35+, why would we feel sorry for men being told at 40 or 50 that they are now old enough to be questionable child-rearing partners? When they ALREADY passed that “to old to raise my kids mark”…

The first thing they tell women who want to meet men is “go into traditionally male spaces—take classes and stuff.” I know that with masculine fragility it is harder for men to do this without being assumed gay, but seriously try manning up and going into “women spaces”. It shows you are a reasonably mature adult and…