i haven't been on effexor for a while now, so the 36 was just a ballpark... i used to take my pill at night, so if i missed a dose i would sleep all right, but then i'd wake up and start feeling off-kilter.

it's really awful. the best way i can describe it is, imagine that awful shock feeling when you hit your funny bone.

effexor (or effexor xr, in my case) didn't make me gain weight, but it was a bitch to stay on ... the "xr" dosages have such a short half-life that even forgetting to take them for a single day was hell. if i went more than 36 hours without my pill, i'd get sweats, nausea, and the lovely side effect known as "brain…

This comment assumes that the children in question hadn't demonstrated their level of maturity to the parents previously, at which point they were given the freedom to walk home alone. By the evidence provided in this article, the parents knew what they were doing: they'd evaluated the potential risks the children…

Fair enough — I wasn't sure if there was a critical strain of feminist theory that I'd missed with that opinion. I do agree that there's a tendency among certain internet feminist communities (in my experience, Tumblr can be this way) to use an expansive definition of coercion that seems to miss the reality of human…

And I'm still not sure if sex without coercion or diminished capacity can be appropriately called rape, or if that's a path that will help people in those situations. Perhaps a better way to express the diversity among humans would be to try and expand our vocabulary for sexual experience, rather than fixate on a word…

Can you cite some texts where feminists would use "rape" in that context? It's not one that I've encountered — obviously, if you partner is making comments to the extent that they will leave you without sex, that's clearly coercion. But if the fear of rejection is completely internal and not caused by anything that…

Is rape the right word to introduce in this context, when the original post contains no mention of coercion of any kind?

This is the sort of post that keeps me checking Jezebel regularly, even though most of my feminist news and commentary these days comes via other sources, such as Tumblr. This is a complicated question about which people can reasonable reach different answers for themselves through lived experience.... something I…

So I assume you are also a fan of compulsory organ harvesting after a person becomes brain dead, whether or not they had religious or other objections to donating while they were alive? There are plenty of situations where we continue to respect the wishes of the dead, even to the detriment of living people.

Thanks! It's so rare that it's even vaguely relevant to posting on Jezebel — I'm highly enjoying the rare overlap of my personal Venn Diagram.

He's also the athlete with the most followers on Twitter, and the first athlete to reach 100 million likes on Facebook, which is 30 million more than the next most popular athlete (also a footballer).

Classic Ronaldo No Fucks Given:

No lie, you had me googling "Gerard Pique + Leandro" to try and see if there was any hot gossip I'd missed!

Literally the most famous athlete in the world.

Ronaldo isn't married to Shakira — that's Gerard Pique.

Cristiano Ronaldo's self-confidence is easily one of my favorite things about him. For over a decade, the English-language press has been obsessed with pushing a sexist, homophobic, xenophobic image of him as a swarthy, preening girly man who is ruining A Real Man's Sport, but dude could not give less of a fuck. It's…

While I don't have many attachments to Dave Letterman, it is sad to see that this particular tradition is coming to an end.

You missed a classic by one of the greatest singers of the century, which also has the benefit of being criminally underplayed on most Christmas radio stations:

i think it's obvious that they're being intentionally obtuse. in fact, that's the whole point of clarifying ford's marriage status: to show how little bearing donohue's personal religious views have on the law. bringing up the establishment clause of the first amendment wasn't really necessary to get the point across…