OMG, I didn't even notice that.

Good job with the hair that's never sprouted from a mammal!

You made me snort coffee.

No, it's over zealous pageant photo retouching. If you click the link, you can see the original, perfectly adorable girl.

I figure it was okay to post an after picture since it bears no resemblance to a human child?

Looks like a case of obscene retouching.

It's all so recent. My still living grandmother was born before women had the right to vote and my mother was born before they desegregated lunch counters.

What term would you use to describe the Black Americans who were lynched and the White Americans who lynched them?

Woody Harrelson! Don't forget him.

My aunt who turned 70 has a very similar background to yours... Only she takes that tai chi stuff to the extreme. She's become an absolute new age dingbat who goes on about Chinese medicine, believes she can turn herself invisible, and reads people's life stories through the morphology of their faces.

Thanks for your clarifications. That was very helpful.

From what I understand, going hours without emptying your breasts is incredibly painful, not unlike not being allowed to urinate.

That's a really important message that needs to get out to more parents, especially fathers. I watched a horrifically painful documentary about a priest who raped hundreds of kids. One of his survivors said that she went to her father when she was maybe six and asked what he would do if someone hurt her. Thinking…

Any teen can have a negative sexual experience with a peer. Someone who manipulated, pressed into it, straight up assaulted. But I think, as adults, we forget how starkly the world is divided for teens between peers and adults. It's a bright, glowing line; teens are on side and adults — particularly those with…

I'm so sorry you had to carry that load. You didn't deserve it.

I'm so sorry that happened to you. How did/does it affect you?

No, he's not responsive to calling it abuse. I did say that to him once, "You know that nowadays they would call it child exploitation, right?" He just got a glassy look in his eye. The only way I've been able to frame it for him — he hasn't made use of the therapists numbers I've given him — is that maybe it shaped…

I have a friend who was "initiated" when he was 13 by an middle aged woman, and then became a boy for lots of older women when he was a teenager. He's in his forties and still hasn't connected it to his inability to form healthy, non-anxiety inducing bonds with women. He's also a really good looking man, a self-made…

It's true that she didn't lose her case specifically because of this issue. Unless it's easier to prove discrimination under the Pregnancy Discrimination Act versus the Family Medical Leave Act — I don't know the answer to that. But they did, absolutely, rule that discrimination around breastfeeding is not related…

I realize that this was just a traffic cone on the way to the finish line. But they did still reason that she wasn't covered by the pregnancy discrimination act because the issue was about lactation. And that lactation wasn't a medical condition induced by pregnancy, as demonstrated that it's not outside the realm…