How is this a bad thing? Men don't have to take the same type of precautions as woman because we are not at the same constant risk of sexual assault.

Dude, do you know how old I was when I was given the advice to never leave my drink unattended a a party? 8 years old. I'm in no way unusual in that respect.

Women are given these little gems of advice their entire lives, sometimes even on a daily basis. Then when we put these little gems of advice into practice…

Yes, please let him know that he has my sympathy. As the mom of a now 8 year old boy, this was my worst nightmare when he was a baby. I was so sleep-deprived at that time; I saw this scenario as all too possible. This was a horrible mistake on his part and could have happened to anyone.

That's pretty much how they handled it in this movie:

Here you go:

Simon and Sasha are cousins.

Many decades ago, I read the Karma Sutra. IIRC, aside from the sexual positions (which made it seem like a martial arts program for naked people) it described the other very important things one can do to make yourself more attractive as a lover; primarily, become a more interesting, worldly person. Really ... this…

The signs were there with my son from early on ... birth, really.

He wasn't responding to his name & was not fond of eye contact. I was somewhat concerned at the time but he also loved snuggling and loved interacting with people once he was comfortable with them - not at all "typical" Autism behavior .

He was lining…

Correlation is not causation. Back in the dark ages when there was no scientific explanation for Autism, they believes that the fairy folk stole beautiful babies and left behind sickly, strange doppelgängers called changelings. Usually these were older babies, about the same age as the typical onset age for Autism.…

For real. Hey Toni, I've never had an abortion and I have a son with Autism. He's an awesome kid who is an amazing artist and who is 10 pounds of funny in a 5 pound bag.

Fuck you for (a) buying into the whole "abortion is evil argument", and (b) perpetuating the idea that people with autism are a curse and a burden to…

Two weeks of that everyday ... it was glorious. Then my body decided that it didn't want anything except chicken salad sandwiches with extra pickles and lots and lots of watermelon. Watermelon as it turns out, is a mild diuretic. I was beginning to get swollen feet and hands at the time so it makes sense that my…

Please don't do this to yourself. You're not mainlining fast food directly into your baby's stomach; your body is extracting the nutrients from the food and is THEN feeding the baby. If you weren't eating, they baby would still be getting nourishment from your body's fat and calcium reserves. In that situation, you'd…

Fertility Awareness is NOT the same as the Rhythm Method!!! Fertility Awareness involves monitoring your body for changes in your cervical fluids, temperature and mittelschmertz and keeping a record of the which day of your cycle these events occur on. Over time you begin to know which times are your most fertile and…

What I learned from the video is that my choice to use barrier methods as a supplement to fertility awareness was probably a good idea. Fertility Awareness *is* a method of birth control but it's one that needs an "add-on" if you want to approach 100% effectiveness with it.

No judgment, just hugs. Glad you survived that. No woman should ever have to go through what you did.

Hey, both of my parent are from Ireland and I had the exact same dynamic in my family - brother was the heir apparent while I was expected to do the cooking, cleaning & serving. It's old world vs. new world, not Asian men vs. White men.

I know that the "emasculated Asian male" stereotype is a real thing but I think it's changing slowly, at least here in San Francisco. In my son's elementary school , there are as many families composed of an Asian dad/Caucasian mom as there are of a Caucasian dad/Asian mom and every year, it seems like there are more…

I'd look more closely at his childhood growing up in the Children of God cult, which had in-your-face institutionalized pedophillia as one of it's core practices. It's other one was "flirty fishing" - look it up. IRRC, Phoenix mentioned being sexually abused in a Rolling Stone interview.