Because it's the CDC's job to do exactly that. Their mission statement is literally: "CDC increases the health security of our nation. As the nation's health protection agency, CDC saves lives and protects people from health threats." Drug abuse is a health threat. And the report doesn't analyze cases like yours; it…

nah, the most punk rock thing ever was that girl in L7 taking out her tampon and throwing it in the crowd at Reading.

If a 19 year old called me ugly I'd laugh because I have better shit to do than listen to 19 year olds.

I've never understood the sex on the beach people for that reason; why would you want sand in your junk?

I was vegetarian for about six years, and you learn to be paranoid. I can't tell you how many times I would ask about a dish, be told it had no meat, and recieve something with chicken broth or bacon bits.

Wake up dum dum. You're not going to find any converts here to your bullshit.

i feel really uncomfortable using the term suicide with a 10 year old.

If there is anything more despicable and cowardly than this...grown men too pussy to go to their own deaths they have to send a baby to do their mass murder for them. I fucking hope there's a god and I fucking hope there's a hell and I fucking hope they burn in it forever

Can we change the language to 'used a girl to carry out' and 'used the women to carry out' cause none of these women/children had an option.

Oh, my fucking God...

I'm also not seeing a source for the price (in any currency) in the first place. There are all sorts of outlets reporting regional shortages— Wall Street Journal: Argentina Faces Tampon Shortage, Associated Press: Blame game in Argentina over shortage of tampons, and so forth— but Googling for "$30 tampon Argentina"…

Totally! Women's potential for sexual pleasure is seemingly endless, which I think has terrified men for a millennia and informed a lot of the restrictive attitudes around female sexuality. Sexual politics are so fascinating to me, I just received the book What do Women Want? Adventures in the Science of Female Desire,…

I was in Buenos Aires literally yesterday (and not in the it's actually figuratively kind of way, but in the I was at the airport leaving Argentina yesterday kind of way). I bought a box of pads a couple of days ago, so I was looking at the female product aisle and I didn't see any obscenely noteworthy prices. I paid…

You communicated that very well... it's an aspect of rape culture that is seldom really explored.

The issue isn't just the amount of guys saying they'd rape if they'd have the chance. It's also about how they'd admit to being willing to rape, but only if the word "rape" isn't used. It suggests an issue with how people define rape. Problematic, considering that when the topic is brought up, you have people arguing…

Just to touch on the subject of "men don't understand rape"... I've been thinking lately that they really don't, on a physical level.

This is exactly how I got raped. I was hooking up with a friend of mine. I have vaginismus and a whole fun host of issues (and at the time, even a positive HIV test, which he knew about. It was a false positive, but he didn't know that at the time), I said no penetrative intercourse.

Variations include #bluelivesmatter. My stepmom posted that on her facebook (my dad's a cop in Ohio), and I just about lost my shit. I can love the crap out of my father, and still want him as a professional to be held to higher standards than "I shoot because I can." I can support him and hope for his safety, and…

I just can't with this. You know what's disrespectful? Turning your fucking back on the Mayor of New York because you're upset that he, what? Talked about having to protect his son from police violence? Fuck right off with your jeansgate.

I terminated a very wanted pregnancy at 26 weeks gestation in June. My daughter had a genetic duplication and abnormalities that would have ensured that her life was brief and painful, had she even survived the rest of pregnancy and birth. If I was not extremely privileged to have excellent health insurance and enough…