Clinton is of my parents' generation, and I think that there is often a real disconnect about how much has changed. My parents and my in-laws has never grasped the hours required from bosses or why sometimes plans to meet up have to be cancelled last minute because of work or why yes, you do have to drop everything…

Thank you for the link. One of the things that the class did was put the students in a pretend situations with an attacker (covered in pads and such) where anything could be enacted - an attempted date rape, sexual harassment by a professor, things getting out of hand at a party, etc., that weren't the most…

I'm sure there are different moves learned in different self-defense classes, but the one I attended covered a lot of ways to defend yourself in many different types of attacks, from the "jumping out behind bushes" ones to the up close right on top of you with your hands immobilized to the making out session going too…

Before I attended college in the 90's I thought my parents were kind of silly insisting I take a self defense class. I can't believe how naive and uninformed I was to what a problem sexual attacks are on campus and how little support a university gives victims. I know I'll be making my daughter take a self-defense…

Let's be honest here. Candy's just incredibly lucky that Tagg was pulling out the whites in his brothers' hair at that moment or else he would have run down to her chair, swung it around, and taken a great big swing at her. She doesn't have any secret service protecting her, and he's the kind of son that always,…

I can honestly say I don't think I'll ever get invited to one of those conferences and I don't know why but it makes me a little sad.

Perfect comment!

I hope you guys are okay with a little storytime, because I think it's important to explain where John Cook is coming from before you unfairly judge him in that harsh ladyway you sometimes do to male writers at Gawker. Remember Gawker Stalker?!? Sorry about the the tangent, but that was some fun times. Anyway, I'm…

Other ways she really should have talked about her lady bits: "Where I get tingly the most. Where my hand goes during the masturbation sessions. The place I usually insert a penis, but not always. What I have that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan don't have (besides a ticket to Heaven). It looks like a pinkish flower and…

Amen

I want an all star rejected cast, set in New Orleans. Lynn from OC, Jill from NY, Danielle from NJ, Sheree from ATL, Cat from DC and Pippin's wife from Miami. Wait, no, it should be set in Seattle. Or one of the Portlands. It doesn't really matter, just make it happen, Andy!

Borrow away!

Of course!

Supporting abstinence only education is like washing clean dishes in a soup kitchen - knowing nothing you're pretending to do is actually helping while leaving the real mess for everyone else.

A little known story about DSK that will shed light on what a hypocrite he is. I do actually believe he's been unfairly maligned for simply acting upon a common human condition, the lust condition. But would you believe, I too sometimes act upon a common human condition, the upchuck condition. I was standing there…

I like your mom's reasoning and that it sounds like they are pretty tolerant of the others' religion. I actually appreciated the ex saying something before we got very serious and think it was one of those important talks people should have if they see marriage as a possibility. I have to admit, I never understood…

You celebrate both holidays, you explain both religions, and then you let your kid decide whatever religion they want to or don't want to follow when they're an adult. I don't see how it wouldn't be easy to explain Jesus - "Christians believe G-d came to earth in the form of his son, Jesus, Jews do not believe this."…

A bygone era :(

I had only dated atheists or Christians for no reason other than I never thought about someone's religion when dating until a Catholic boyfriend told me that if we got serious he'd be fine with me being Jewish but wanted to raise any hypothetical kids as Catholics, no halfsies like I always assumed would happen. So I…

I'm sorry to hear you haven't figured out how to have an enjoyable sex life to go with a spouse and kids (I'm not being snarky, it really sucks to hear that). 2 small kids here and while we don't get it on as much as we did in the pre-child phase, it happens often enough and is definitely enjoyable enough that I've…