Hey, thanks for sharing that. I know it was really personal. And thank you, as well, for recognizing that other women's choices about when/if/with whom to have sex are valid for them, just like yours was valid for you, and not slamming those who made different choices (or who made very similar ones to the ones you…

If you want to have sex, then have sex and be safe and happy having sex.

Back in the 90s, my tabletop gaming group drank enough of that Surge crap to get way too caffeinated one night and make plate armor for everybody out of it. I will never forget the joust that they did while howling "WE ARE THE KNIGHTS OF SURGE!" at the top of their lungs. I'd have felt bad for the neighbors if I…

Sorry to necro, but thank you.

If I have respect, I don't need chivalry. Chivalry is for people you don't respect but want to fool into thinking you respect.

At call centers, this same thing happened—the customers with the worst payment records and most outrageous demands for credit were the ones who talked the biggest game about being those companies' best customers.

Pound for pound, you will not get more bang for the aggressiveness buck than a housecat can summon. I've seen a seven-pound geriatric cat (mine) require three full-grown men to contain at a vet's office (her regular vet wasn't available, and this one had no idea how to deal with her—last time she ever saw him, trust…

I'm guessing he didn't understand Wham! well enough to share it with the poor Millennials.

For some reason I can't see it over at Raw Story, but here's a different link to it: http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2014/0…

I can never hear someone calling women "females" without thinking of the Ferengi. It's like the sexist version of "I'm not a racist but.."

You deserve all the applause there is for putting words to the terrible bargain women strike day in, day out, every day of our lives.

I just know there's some way to get the general lines and aesthetics, if that's really what they wanted to achieve, without appropriating a marginalized culture's symbols. Those folks just need to read more Elfquest or something.

In that news link given, he insists that his statements are not a reflection of who he really is. I'd like to know what would be then, because he's been doing this for years and pretty constantly. Maybe the problem is that he hasn't come face to face with the simple fact that why yes, his statements are absolutely a…

"So then I got behind him, and spread his ass cheeks, just like this.."

It's like how we react to "family values" politicians at this point. The more a group stresses "purity" and tries to persecute other consenting adults and control their sex lives, the more skeletons they'll have in their own closets.

Absolutely positively you are totally right. Abortion laws hit poor women in the shorts, not the privileged women who have always been able to get to faraway clinics or endure weird waiting times or invasive, expensive procedures. Poor women are the ones who are the most impacted by getting turned away (remember that…

A lot of these stories can happen in the first place because young women are so used to having abortion access and freedom that they can campaign about abortion but then expect to just nip off to a clinic if they need it for their wayyy more moral abortion. The idea that there just wouldn't be any abortion for…

That's what I use as well, forced-birth.

I don't think their national president finished the sentence. "I am praying for you both by demanding my god magically force you to change your minds to agree with me and be more like what I want you to be like." When I was a Christian, when we said we'd pray for someone in that tone, that's exactly what we meant…

Not even awesomely like Sir Patrick the other day, either.. "Act!" "I'm TRYING, dammit!"