So, neither you nor your wife are actual OB/GYNS, I take it. But you are still running your mouth about this? Despite all the posters who actually have it and have gone through the diagnostic process themselves who disagree with you? Some of whom have access to specialists who actually DO know about it? Really?

I worked for six years in EMS and I've seen some ugly things, too. I have heard the terms you commented on. And I have diagnosed endometriosis (not to mention some nasty lingering effects of two years of bacterial dysentery). My mother, who was a nurse, and I used to gross my father out at the supper table by talking…

Agreed, except that "garbage can diagnosis" is pejorative regarding the diagnostic process, not the patient. It means that too many people get misdiagnosed with it, diminishing the validity of the diagnosis. I don't hear it as saying anything about the validity of the patient's complaint (although it was invalidating…

Yeah, but he's not a doctor talking to other doctors who will know what he means. It doesn't take wild flights of imagination to guess that calling a disorder "garbage" to a typical layperson is going to sound dismissive.

No, this called a rape myth, right along with "if she's wet it's not rape". Males who are molested by adults, including the female ones, are significantly more likely to be traumatized and have issues with depression, anxiety, and ptsd. And yes, I'm aware that there are a great many men who perpetuate this myth, which…

No, nuns as an institution are not feminist. There are plenty of really cool, badass, feminist nuns—I know some of them!—and many orders do a huge amount of charity and social justice work that is incredibly valuable. But an institution that restricts sexuality as a prerequisite for membership and is part of a church…

You'd be amazed at how many Florida problems are Disney problems.

Your reply is funny and pithy, but that actually is part of the problem. Disney has swallowed up so much of the surrounding area, and much of the rest of it has been developed by resorts, that there is no affordable housing that you can realistically commute from via public transportation. This is also a problem at…

Among the many problems in Orlando and it's branch cities is that Orlando will do anything the corporations ask. Perfectly fine stadium and need new stadium? Done. Soccer stadium? Done. Orlando suffered badly from the housing bubble burst. They had expected all of these taxes from incoming residents but when the…

it's good to block them out :(

Tit for tat is not a lesson I'm interested in my kids learning. Objectifying men doesn't make up for years of it being done to women or balance anything out. That's not the kind of equal opportunity I signed up for.

I'm almost 49. I'm reading here in the "comments" that some women are choosing not to have honest reactions to things in their lives because of lines that might be created/might be shown/might cause them to implode. Holy f***king crap. Seriously?!? You will not fully EXPERIENCE your life because of a fear of getting…

I've never seen them anywhere else.

I always thought Jordan Almonds (who is this Jordan anyways?!) were just for weddings. I remember being heavily disappointed trying them as a five year old at my Aunt's wedding.

Yup- I've heard of a couple "prom-posals" at my school. They are not very extravagant (singing a song with the ukelele was the biggest thing), and they are *not* the norm.

LOL. I would be surprised if you were over 18. And in the remote chance that you're telling the truth, I feel really sorry for your female students.

Most of what we learned about Columbine was wrong. It wasn't about bullying. It wasn't about revenge against jocks. There was no Trenchcoat Mafia. All of that was a lot of bullshit perpetuated by a lazy media. These boys were not alienated loners. They had friends. They both went to the prom. Eric Harris was a…

If it's a school assembly, there's a possibility that the kids didn't really have a choice of whether or not they could attend, and even if a good portion of those kids wanted to check Miss America out, there are probably also some kids who actually did want to hear about pursuing a STEM career. Being pretty doesn't…

I think the school responding this way because the student is harrassing Miss America. Haha, so cute, so awkward. Her speaking there isn't about being asked to prom. It is inappropriate. He was told not to do it, but he did anyways. So, he got suspended.

"It's amazing how you took that as an insult"