Damn skippy. "I'll pray for you" said to a non-believer =

THANK YOU. I suffered from PTSD and somehow managed not to be a bigot while getting treatment. Mental illness can definitely produce some weird thought patterns that can manifest as bigotry, but yeah, I wish folks would stop saying stuff like this all the time. What if she's not mentally ill but just that shitty all…

It's amazing you wrote this and didn't mention where these repressive, abusive attitudes are coming from. It seems blindingly obvious to me what sort of parents might object to protecting their kids from STDs.

Is that like Newt Gingrich calling the wrath of Congress down on Bill Clinton for being a cheaty womanizer? Guess whatever the Republicans are putting in the water to ensure everybody gets selective amnesia isn't working quite right. (YES I'm kidding.)

To be fair, at least she looks the part of an innocent, well-scrubbed ingenue, from what little I've seen about the series. I still hope she turns it down; there's no way a movie based on those horrible books would become anything but a drinking game (1 shot if she says "oh my", and 2 if you don't immediately parrot…

When he dies, no shit, the world is going to throw a celebration like at the end of Return of the Jedi, and for the same reason: a source of great evil will have departed the cosmos.

This was amazingly well-written and encapsulated everything I was thinking but hadn't quite formulated yet about this new attack on women.

So is tone trolling going to be your studied response to the point I made *twice* that your first-world-fantasy of persecution puts you squarely in the camp of the exact same Christians you're trying so hard to distance yourself from? Or that your self-glorifying declaration of being the genuine true article of…

What a wonderful dad. And you know what? I think Ashleigh is *VERY* worthy in her own right. Does she fit the physical requirement for being a pageant winner? Maybe, maybe not. But she has pluck, verve, bravery, discernment, and intelligence, and those are worth much more in the long run. I'd be her friend any day.…

"Moron"? I never insulted you, but you feel free to do so to me. And you make an awful lot of assumptions about my experience with abusive partners and about the fields in which I've worked—are you so egocentric you cannot conceive of someone having the same experiences as you and still having different opinions than…

I'm willing to bet that most of the preparations these people are making are pretty pointless and stupid, done mainly as a sort of self-medication against extreme anxiety about the future. The preparations outlined here certainly sound less than useful. But when someone's convinced that there's some huge,…

I saw a poll from a reputable group that did say that most of the opposition is from religious folks, yes. But I suspect even the religious group boils down to "gays are icky" and are just using religion as a smokescreen to avoid having to say that. (Not that they do avoid saying it outright like that; I remember a…

I had a kitten who slept on her back pretty often. An older cat of mine did it too. Mostly it seems like it's the bigger kitties and the tiny kittens who do it.

No no no, now you're just talkin' crazy talk.

Oh, okay. So because he has this personal belief that is in no way substantiated by evidence or reality, he wants to keep "fathers in the home" by forcing parents to stay together against their wills. Oh, I see. That's going to work marvelously to produce happy, healthy children. I know it was just ducky growing up…

Wait, is she trying to say that because unwanted pregnancies due to rape are rare, that abortion should be illegal? Because not only is she flat-out wrong about rape-caused pregnancies, it doesn't matter even in the slightest why a woman wants an abortion. It's legal still, so nobody gets to tell her that her reason…

Well said. The only way forced-birthers can function is by misusing definitions and distorting the truth. Yes, personhood is absolutely positively irrelevant, but focusing on personhood is the last gasp of the forced-birth crowd. Abortion wouldn't be "killing" a "person" even if you could demonstrate that a…

Oh please. You're not sorry at all. You're just cloaking your MRA misogyny in more clever terms than the fundies usually use, that's all. It's a women's rights issue because ONLY WOMEN GET PREGNANT and because the forced-birth camp uses "pro-life" legislation as a thinly-veiled way to punish women for having…

Ah, so you missed the part of this article where the super-creepy weirdo left his screed on the doorstep of a woman's home—indicating that a pervert with no sense of propriety knows where she lives and has been watching her come and go for who knows how long, feels bold enough to make editorial comments about her…

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