It helps that I don't have many friends. I have acquaintances. We're not close enough that I go to their houses to see how they structure their lives. And since I don't cook or do chores really, it doesn't necessarily come up in conversation.

Hey, most of the people I know and speak to in my every day life (early 30's) aren't—or don't seem—"traditional" either. I sometimes begin to think that the so-called majority of people who believe in these traditional values are strawmen.

I've observed that, no matter how much one tries to keep one's messes separate, two people living together create more than twice as much mess as either living alone. And this sucks because I'm not a domestic person. At all.

Some women do not experience psychological trauma post-abortion.

I love those things. Love them. There was a period in my life when I'd come across them in public restrooms and such and I miss it so hard. Nothing is better proof of God's grace than Chick Tracts.

I always figure, as an agnostic, it's more about the structured social and legal benefits. Also, if I were going to do the children thing, I think a traditional family structure is desirable. Not for any innate superiority, but simply because it is normative.

I think with, "porn's not that big a deal"?

I think it's quite telling that many people's discomfort with the label is not wanting to be associated with a strawman invented by white men—rather than not wanting to be associated with very real problems internal to feminism.

On one hand, of course I'm feminist. But on the other hand, I don't volunteer the word and sometimes when someone else uses it to label me I respond, "Depends on what you mean when you use the word. I'm not a feminist stereotype."

For years I've complained of dizziness and exhaustion.

My apologies for putting words in your mouth. I am not actually doing so except in the first sentence. I only felt the rest would be suggested through implication to some readers because of the setting and original subject of the conversation.

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Oh, man. They didn't have much dueling in that period anymore, I think. It was illegal. Just think of the possibilities if they'd set it in an earlier period.

Classic. I'm a MUD fan, too.

Yes, because there are not plenty of violent crimes against actual people that they could be policing instead.

As a lifelong asthmatic and allergic and non-allergic rhinitis sufferer I find the laws to be the kind of paternalism I'd prefer not to see legislated.

And don't forget these people whose brains are still developing are capable of consenting to sex.

That's good news, I think.

Once a guy told me he was surprised that I was so fun to talk to — my ex was totally wrong about my being boring. It did work. When I was about 16 and rebounding from my first broken heart.

Well, because of the context. Here we have a little girl who has absorbed superficial and silly gender expectations teasing another little girl about "boy shoes". Her dad's response is, "I don't know where she gets it."