I'm not on team renter (as the letter put so well, the house was "used roughly"), but I'm not getting on the team landlord boat either. The owner's expectations smell quite fishy.

I saw a presentation on it at work. It is a thing. According to their animal (calves and cattle, original data from agribusiness) and human research (national pediatric data) it looks like heavy antibiotic exposure or repeated moderate exposure will do it.

Add self-centered to that brat description.

I feel soooooo sorry for you! Inundated with so many well wishes you're sick of them!!

Its the gender-bending. A guy resume with transformers and a gal resume with ponies would each be picked up with tongs and thrown into the fire with a mixture of relief and disgust.

I think if you were first generation Persian, you would find him much less of an ass-hat (though, perhaps an ass-hat nonetheless. Certainly, I wouldn't date him.).

ehh. Persians. 80% of this just seems like a culture clash.

I had to zoom WAaaaY in to see the horns in that photo. Not blackface, but definitely hard to tell initially.

Not weird. Normal. How these types of people don't get that just astounds me.

Stop calling it mutilation, and watch him act like a reasonable human being as soon as you start to be one.

The former, always the former. The word is useless if all men are bros anyways.

I can agree with 'some ways'. I think it is vitally important to make a child feel in control over their body and their person whenever the opportunity rises, especially as the practicalities of child-rearing so often restrict them.

It can happen with utterly uncut foreskins, not just as a complication of a poorly performed circumcision.

...I would rather respect you and your individuality than your genitals for being genitals.

The choice position is a really fair one.

"unfair that the kid has no say"

I've recently come to the conclusion that trimming may be the worst of grown people.

"My boyfriend is uncircumcised, and blowing him is both easier and more enjoyable than blowing my circumcised bfs was"

I'm surprised that as an African-American you get the from-from question, given most people do know how AA's got here. It is other POC's that you generally can't make a good guess out of the blue, as their history is less prominent.

Yes. Her article about her family issues. You are daft as hell.