That second paragraph is a bit sketchy: gay and bisexual men seem to have been conflated in those statistics. Unlike gay men, bisexual men are fully capable of falling in love with and marrying het women and leading a happy-normal-boring marital life, without there being any required "deceit or secretly agreed-upon…

How does job security work in academia?

"Hospital security does not throw you out unless you've actually attacked someone. It just doesn't happen."

In terms of visitation, I think it often depends on the hours, the nurse, and the ward (i.e. how sick the patient is).

I'm confused by that, as well. And they don't have the bottom-bar preview of "here's what's on all our other sites" anymore. Ditto io9

The thing is, both of these sides of the story ("they're homophobic and denied me access"; "he was belligerent and we were within our rights to ask him to leave") might be true, and related.

So much of this depends upon how specifically they phrased the question.

One last thought — do you sew, or have cheap access to someone who would sew for you (like someone in the costume dept)?

Heh, nice recovery ;-) That is somehow both pervy, and oddly sweet.

Thank you, I can never figure out how to hyperlink and didn't want to waste a paragraph of link-junk!

Vintage wedding dress PSA:

Do the ones for your personal use need to be actual vintage, or just have that retro Maggie the Cat vibe? If the latter: any place that sells "wedding" sleepwear as a staple, or caters to older, moneyed women tends to have a fair number of evening slip and negligee/matching robe vintage looks (well, I found that to…

"Growing up, women wearing negligees, ah my formative years."

The show Third Watch (a cop/fire department/paramedic procedural series) had a really interesting miscarriage and abortion storyline.

Hey, Brad McHugginton... that wouldn't happen to be your real name, would it?

Oh, fuckballs, you and everything in reply to you in this thread has me cry-laughing so hard. Thank you.

Some behaviors amongst housemates are questionably-cool (sleeping with a house mate's ex, depending upon context) and some are straight up clearly un-fucking-cool (taunting said roommate re: sex with ex). That shit is antisocial in confined quarters! How did the rest of you not instinctively close ranks against the…

Okay, promise to send the link if you do, because that makes no sense to me (in the best of ways!)

Slightly related: I wish "bougie" wasn't a slur, because that shit feels so pleasing rolling off the tongue. Phonetic wastage!

When I was a college sophomore, I went through something similar with my BFF of 10 yrs. (Fortunately, after a few tough months of tests they determined that the daily-headache-inducing "brain tumor" they saw on her scans was actually a bone spur on her skull that would "probably" stop growing and cease causing her…