To dismiss him as "mentally ill" is to do a great disservice to the multitudes of people who struggle with mental illness. I used to work in a half-way house for people who had been discharged from locked psychiatric facilities. Most of these folks had lived with the absolutely worst forms of every mental illness you…

I've never been treated for or addressed my ED - it's always been the back burner problem to my anxiety and mood disorder. Interestingly, it's always been stress or anxiety that triggers the weight loss, but it's the "too thin" comments and attention that fuel the compels me to keep going.

Yes. I've bounced between fat and thin for most of my life. I'm fat now and I have a few medical issues that would be improved by losing weight. You know what stops me? It's not the fear of mean 'ol fatties hatin' on my beautifully lean ass, it's my fear of the fucked-up head space that I get into once I start losing…

Irish barn kitties are the best!!!

Even hardened criminals have sisters, mothers, daughters and nieces that they love and feel protective of. Hell, many of those inmates must really hate that bastard because it's a reminder that because they are incarcerated they have no way to protect the women in their lives.
There's probably a guy or two who…

Exactly. No one should say that all trans people need to be good-looking in order to be accepted. However, if more trans kids feel comfortable telling their parents at an earlier age and more parents are educated about what being trans means, that will hopefully lead to kids getting the type of medical and…

I'm a regular person who was placed on a 5150 because of insurance bullshit. My doctor had switched me to a new antidepressant because my depression didn't seem to be responding to the one I had been on for a few months. Unfortunately I had a very severe adverse reaction to the mixture of the old medication and the…

Or maybe, you should consider the fact that the majority of the industrialized world does not circumcise their infant sons. Strangely, I have not heard of any epidemics of foreskin-related peen problems in the parts of Europe where my friends and family live.
Teaching good hygiene and consistent condom use seems to…

I won that argument with my husband and my son is intact. So far (and he is 7) he doesn't seem to notice that there's any difference between how his penis looks compares to his dad. Or maybe he has noticed but he simply doesn't care. Either way the whole "his penis has got to look like daddy's" argument is bullshit.

Let's not forget the hospital issued fishnet panties!

For the rest of you, I know that sounds sexy but believe me, it's not. Think of the unsexiest thing in the world and multiply it by a thousand - that's what the post-delivery fishnet panties are like.

Tarka the Otter has to be one of the sappiest, most bucolic slice of nature pictures until all the over-the-top mayhem and animal-on-animal brutality erupts in the last 10 minutes. The horror ...

My experience may be different because high school was 35 years ago and I went to an all-girls high school after co-ed 1st - 8th grade ... but being a geeky girl was definitely something to kept on the down-low. As bad as it was for boys, they at least sought each other out and stuck together, but being a geek girl…

What, no Marilyn Manson Absinthe?

He is awesome and in that sentence, he spoke truth to power. Our culture still sees black men as dangerous and he is not afraid to mention that fact.

What really pisses me off is how people on other sites are saying things like " LOL!! He's is the new "hide your kids, hide your wife" guy! He's a meme machine!!". The…

Three one-night-stands in three months? How does this in any sense of the word (outside Bob Jones University) constitute promiscuity?
That sounds a pretty tame toe-dip into the pond of sexual exploration, compared to most women I know who for the most part all (we're all in our mid-40s now) got married, had kids, and…

I hated, HATED being pregnant (24/7 heartburn, uncontrollable belching, weird skintags that popped up out of nowhere, the weird freckles that popped up out of nowhere (I actually kind of like those ),the painful pubic bone that made walking extremely uncomfortable) but man, I made one foxy looking pregnant lady. That…

I just adopted a 6 month old puppy from the SFSPCA about a week & a half ago. I think the picture at the top is of my sweet Lady Alice!

Question to Sikh readers out there. Excessive facial hair in women can be but one symptom of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome which is associated with several health problems; metabolic syndrome, irregular menstruation and infertility namely. I'm guessing that if she were married and trying to conceive there would be no…

Preach.

And the sad truth is as a mother, a wife, a sister and a daughter of males I WANT to help make life better for men - that's my takeaway from feminism. Not by subjugating my own needs as MRAs want women to do, but by looking at how I am and other women screwed by the system and looking further out to see how that same…