*why must it be an either/or, tho? Manufacturers, just make everything.

Thank you, I agree with this so much. And the crazy thing is, by giving us many seasons to see Ramsay’s terrible nature, the show actually gave us a completely predictable wedding night for him & Sansa. The only surprise was that the showrunners went through with it. I would have been so much more surprised, and still…

I’m just gonna straight-up complain for a minute. Spoilers.

God, I wish I could say something that would just magically rewire your brain into a self-love machine and pump out self-love hormones every minute of every day.

Startups can be risky too. I just googled “percentage startup bankrupt” and the results were not encouraging—something like 90% failed within 4 years. You should look into the company and the industry carefully, and compare your notes against what you can find out from the Internet. Some stuff to consider:

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.