Yes, why did Elliot leavvvvve?! I can't bring myself to watch it without him.

The logic here is impeccable.

It's true: The best way to eliminate newborn illness is to make sure mothers are shunned and malnourished.

It'd be even better if they would make sure that the mothers couldn't get health care either.

Punishing drug addicts in general works so well. I mean, they all stop using drugs immediately once they learn they will be punished.

I haven't watched the show since Stabler left (and someone PLEASE tell me exactly why he left? cos I missed his last couple of episodes and haven't found them on reruns). I couldn't get into a basically all-new cast that i didn't care about.

I was a strict vegetarian for many years. Then, I snapped and had a huge steak. It was delicious, and I was so sick that night I thought I was going to die - never had a clue that your body has to be accustomed to that sort of thing, so you reintroduce in small doses.

On the other hand, what I did learn from "The Great American Novel" is that when you're bothered by something - punch it in the face. Probably not the thing I was supposed to pick up, being a girl and all, but hey, don't teach me if you don't want me learning stuff.

Well, I am a lady writer and I can tell you that there's a very valid reason to only read straight cis men: A writer can only write with a penis. Literally.

It's not that it's a social construction that's the problem. It's that it's a social construction that sentences like the one I quoted are making meaningless.

You're a dude if you say you're a dude.

Spend more time around unpleasant men. You'll find them quickly enough.

Ha. Thank you. You're right. I wasn't really asking for sympathy but I can see now that I did come off as whiny and as though I was feeling bad for myself for being in a mildly uncomfortable situation. Major clarification: I don't feel bad for myself and I don't expect/deserve any sympathy.

I grew up poor (7 people living on $20k poor) but with parents who emphasized the importance of an education and that I was going to have to figure out how to pay for it myself. So I worked really hard at school and got a scholarship. Then I worked even harder and got a fellowship to grad school. Then I taught and had…

You tell the poster that you've never had this experience and say:

To be fair, when I hear that someone lost a young baby I first feel incredibly sorry for the parents and don't really think about the actual baby as a person. After all, the parents are the ones who have to live with the loss. A baby who dies at a few weeks probably never really registered its own existence in the…

I didn't even know half of what you just said, but it makes me even more sure that I stand by my words. So basically, for the majority of one's life, any biologically female human must put her own health second to the health of a potential person that does not exist. Just... WHAT?!?

The law is not, in these cases, in place to protect the person who was raped. And it often becomes a he said / she said thing, so yes it is really hard to prove beyond a reasonable doubt. There isn't a dead body lying around, after all. I don't envy the lawyers who have to defend someone who is on trial for rape.

Providing a competent and aggressive defense based on a precise and complete understanding of the law to one's client is a noble and necessary endeavor.

So, Mr. Smith, before you were stabbed were you wearing a shirt? When the knife pierced your chest did you specifically tell your attacker to stop? When he stabbed you the second time did you bother to say "No" in a firm clear voice? When you walked around being a jerk earlier in the day, weren't you pretty much…

In case you didn't know: this young midshipman didn't even want to press charges. She knew she'd been raped and figured she could skip the part where she'd be ritually burned at the stake and blamed for her rape in front of her peers while simultaneously having her career ruined. She wasn't even allowed agency in the…