Forget the ridiculous third reason for a moment. Why do there seem to be so many otherwise intelligent people who don’t seem to understand that the vast majority of the time it’s not appropriate to act on your sexual impulses? Literally everyday of the week I work with and walk by women that I am attracted to,…

I'd pick any of the zillion GOOD fanfics I can get online for free! :-)

There’s actually an updated version, where female/male etc. are placed as separate sliders, rather than a scale. You don’t have to be less of one to be more of the other. However, since you’ve had people help you with the nuances, maybe you’re a good person for me to ask some questions? I’ve been doing my best to…

Seriously. I live in Miami AND I have a dust mite allergy. Ceiling fans would leave me dead of either heatstroke or asphyxiation by my own sinuses.

Eh. I’m gonna disagree on queer grounds. A lot of these ‘sexist’ dress code things are more than just sexist, they’re cissexist or heterosexist. Kids should be able to wear whatever shoes they want regardless of dress code. I’m actually more concerned with the “all girls will wear skirts/dresses” part, but really. It…

Nope, nope, nope. Catholic grad, here, as well, and no fucking way should a school dictate that I need to wear a dress. Choose a color if you like, that’s cool, but don’t tell me I need to show skin or wear something feminine. I’m graduating from school, not presenting myself for a gyno appt., gender is irrelevant.

Oh, because she was just generally kind of a mean “so much cooler than everyone else around” person. She was mad that they hadn’t approved her other dress (yes, we had to have our dresses approved, which was ridiculous for sure), so she showed up in pants in flagrant disregard of the policy and tradition. Had she been…

Why was it dickish on her part?

I went to an all-girl’s Catholic school. We all had to wear white dresses upon graduating. It’s a big tradition and your senior class photo is always taken on that day. My year, a girl wore a white pant-suit. It caused so much tension, was both hilarious, and really, really dickish on her part because it was obviously…

As a child ive always had bad dreams. My sister was a kid with problems with her behavior . I had s dream the devil told me she belonged to him. Thoughout the years as she got older she became older and stronger. She would say no one loved me like you diid when i was a kid. Her attuide grew really bad over the years.…

My kids like to invite alllll their friends to their birthday parties. But receiving that many gifts is INSANE and not good for anyone. So I have come up with Creative Solutions, for instance: “please bring a book to exchange.” Then we have a huge grab bag and everyone gets a book! Present Overload avoided AND party…

Favorite (heartwarming) gift story: One of my high school classmates married his longtime boyfriend last summer. He’s an attorney, his now-husband is a pharmacist. They’ve shared a gorgeous household (read: gay male expensive taste and unlimited budget) for 11 years.

If your baby hates being read to, you’re doing it wrong.

*to the tune of god bless the USA*

Oh, and also this:

Someone who contributes to groupthink said when she first became a contributor Pinkham apparently took umbrage with one of her posts and left her a crap ton of crazy messages. The kicker is he apparently knew what he was doing since he kept on sending the messages on a dismissed thread so that she and only she could…

One nice thing about having a chronic illness is that I am forced to go to the doctor all the time. “Nice” in the sense that I get checked out routinely. “Crappy” in all other ways.

Over 50, actually, and if you have any weird symptoms at all, don’t let your doctor dismiss you for being too young to have colon cancer. My husband was diagnosed at age 34, stage 3c. He got very lucky that they caught it before it was even worse. He had to pretty much force his doc to let him have a colonoscopy.

Ladies, do your self-checks too! I know a woman who’s going through radiation right now; she found a lump on her own that a mammogram didn’t detect.

My mom was diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer at 45. We had no family history of it and it was caught via mammogram. After brutal rounds of surgery, radiation, and chemo, my mom has now been cancer free for 18 years. Thank you, Taylor, for reminding people to get checked even when they feel just fine. Sending…