As Zabella said, if you feel you have no filter with him, then let him know how you felt receiving those texts. Keep it brief, but let him know that (a) while sometimes people say stupid things while they’re drunk, his texts made you deeply uncomfortable because being drunk isn’t an excuse for some things, and this is…

I don’t drink and I haven’t had sex yet. The former is forever, the latter has a big YET because it’s definitely something I’d like to do, but only with the right guy, and I haven’t met any of them yet. I’ve stopped telling people both of these things; I stopped years ago. Not because I was ashamed, but because it’s…

At least he didn’t call her “the female”.

It is not possible for a sext to be grimmer than that. Not possible. You win/lose.

“Expanding Leadership Opportunities for Buddhist Women—Which Way Forward?”

Yep, my first thought was that if I ever became pregnant and knew I wanted to abort, I wouldn’t even try in this country. I would book myself a nice 2-week vacation, get the procedure done somewhere else, and look into real estate, because I would never want to come back.

Right now the “fetus feels pain” idea is more or less scientific speculation, and that’s the angle pro-choicers take when arguing against using it as a benchmark. If you try to offer pain relief for the fetus, you’re basically legitimizing a bunk argument.

Requiring people to report crimes committed against them is...just...it’s so the opposite of non-intrusive government I don’t know where to begin. You can’t legitimately believe in small government and support that kind of mandate unless you also honestly believe that young women are fundamentally incapable of making…

If we get time machines, I’m sending the bigots forward, not back. I shudder to think what they’d do with a miniscule bit of modern knowledge and the acute desire to rewrite history, but I’d love to see them try to spout this garbage in 2319 when everybody’s too busy having sex with robots to worry about teh gayz.

Benjamin Franklin thinks it’s okay, as does Alexander Hamilton.

“Which of these guys is a fashion designer?”

THIS THIS THIS.

This map makes it look like we saw Russia, Cuba, Iran, Germany, France, Venezuela, and Canada all hanging out at the same table, rolled our eyes, and took our maternity leave lunch tray to the opposite side of the cafeteria in a dramatic huff.

I’d guess it’s a combination of sanitizing it & the menstruation taboos. From my understanding, you need to sterilize the cup in boiling water, which probably means you need a pot that you use specifically for your Diva Cup and not for cooking. (And even if you’re okay mixing & matching pots, the degree of shame these…

Most of my office mates have switched to vaping, but there’s one woman who must smoke a pack a day. I can go into the empty bathroom and tell which stall she used based on the lingering miasma of smoke. I can also tell when she’s walked through the hallway or down the stairwell.

It makes you a dick. However, you can rest assured that every one of those 12 people with a lick of self-awareness is silently sending every “DON’T SIT HERE” signal they can in the hopes that they’ll be able to deter people from sitting next to them. We’re all dicks.

Weirdo is behaving in a completely inappropriate manner. Manager is not doing enough by “working her (under)age into the conversation.” Weirdo knows she’s 17. Weirdo is a-okay with knowing she is 17. Weirdos the world over love dealing with 17-year-olds, because they’re still too young to be world-wise and know how to…

I used to work in a bookstore that made us wear nametags. All of the women used fake names. You could tell when someone was stalking because they’d ask for an employee who didn’t work there, like so:

I was extremely skeptical about that entire section, but then I looked it up on Wikipedia and maybe her dad’s right? (Although the wording she chose is kinda misleading.) Relevant section:

So. Your teeth are comprised of two layers: enamel and dentin. Enamel is the outer coating and dentin is the spongy interior. [I learned this while getting info about teeth whitening, because I’ve had yellow teeth since I was a child and never felt the color was due to “stains” (how can a 5-year-old have red wine…