I was thinking the same thing! But I also never expected her to be the most convincing Bob Dylan actress in that whole Bob Dylan movie, so maybe she’ll surprise us...

Little Rock, Fayetteville, and Eureka Springs are cool. I’ve lived in Little Rock my entire life, it’s big enough to have some nice city things, but small enough that it’s easy to meet people (and people are very friendly and chill here in LR). It’s a great state if you like hiking and rock climbing and that sort of…

Well all I can say is that it was honestly not my intent. My only reaction to seeing that image was, “how can anyone thing doing that to their body is a good idea?!” And the only answer that came to me was, “because our male-dominated society makes them think that’s the ideal.”

I think you’re taking my comment way too seriously, but if you want to go down this route, I was just trying to suggest that it’s not a good idea to ruin your health and wellbeing just to satisfy a cultural beauty image created by a heterosexual male-dominated power structure.

Well I certainly don’t mean it that way. I just meant please don’t ruin your own health and well-being to try to conform to some sort of heterosexual patriarchal beauty standard.

I think everyone else has already covered the general WTF-ness of this, but a tangent my mind’s gone off on with this is, what’s up with these village elders? Why don’t they have more respect for their own bodies and actions than this? How fucked up do they each need to be that they view their penises as weapons and…

Newtown was the moment that I realised that we had entirely lost this war. If that couldn’t change peoples’ minds, absolutely nothing could. Nothing.

As I said to my husband yesterday, it's time to get over our American bullshit bravado that insists we do everything best and look at the countries where gun violence isn't an issue and take a page from their books. We don't have to win at everything, guys. Shit. We're acting like that annoying person who digs their…

I think Japan, Australia & the UK need to hold an intervention at this point

“We care for you. We can’t see you keep hurting yourself like this...”

At first I was going to ask, “and just how would you having a gun have prevented your daughter’s death?”

If someone gunning down 20 little kids didn’t change the gun laws nothing will. Sad but true.

I’m sick to death of the people saying, “The Duggar kids are always happy and smiling, so they’re obviously a great Christian family.” No, they’re fucking not. They’re beaten unless they act happy.

I’m not too sure that Jim Bob hasn’t strayed himself. He may have been a little more adept at covering it up, but there is no way on god’s green earth that a man with that kind of need for power and control doesn’t get some on the side.

Fuuuuuck. That makes a ton of sense. How can you understand consent and rape when you’re trained your entire life to succumb to your husband’s sexual demands?

Um, this is not true at all. Most women in combat have a terrible time trying to access birth control. It is not mandatory and women are given quite a hard time when they want to receive women’s health services in a combat zone. Stock up on supplies before your deployed? You can’t when your military health insurance…

Orrrrrr, you could use your teeny, tiny brain and try using the context to understand the unfamiliar words! Sometimes, a word like “recycle” has more than one meaning! But if you think about it for .3 seconds, you might, perhaps, MAYBE come up with the correct definition for this particular usage!

I think the physical requirements need to be questioned. The way that special forces are used in urban environments is very different from when they were articulated in WWII. Little has changed about the physical requirements since then, even though the combat theater calls for less physical demand.

Is this brilliant sarcasm? The one military term was “Ranger School,” and it was in the headline.

Can’t imagine the pressure they were under, and the feeling that if they washed out they were letting down An Ideal, not just themselves, because God knows (and your brother’s story illustrates) candidates who aren’t test cases or symbols find it brutal enough if they don’t make it.

Brotherology, who is a decorated combat veteran, left Ranger School. He called me from Georgia to ask if he could come north to my home before he reported to his base, and I told him yes without hesitation. He showed up with a knee the size of a pineapple and explained that he hadn’t reentered after his first failure…