I don't know, imagining a loose acquaintance showing up to a work presentation and blasting a fight song on the clarinet is unsettling.

Dude, you've been lied to. A lot. It's not about confidence and power, not these school-aged crushes. Those are purely mutual attraction. It doesn't matter who you are at that age, if the crush isn't mutual, a grand gesture isn't just awkward, it's horrifying.

For the record, you should never do stuff like this for someone you aren't currently dating. So: not for crushes, not for exes you're trying to win back, and not for people you've just started dating either.

Otherwise it just sorta screams "I'm creepily obsessed with you and have no sense of personal boundaries."

I was in the UK when the Sandy Hook shooting happened. Everyone there was certain that America would finally get real about gun control. People thought I was being ridiculously cynical when I said it would never happen. I know my good ol USA, though! Who gives a fuck about health and safety as long as we've got guns…

Peel back the layers a bit, and you'll see they're likely on the same side as the Nazis on quite a lot of things.

I agree.

I would like anti-gay groups to recuse themselves from the world in general. Do I get a say?

It bothered me, too. Then it occurred to me, in addition to the psychological warfare practiced on these people, that maybe his family desperately needed the money he'd get.

OMG #4 So much OMG. While this was not specifically about slash, it was still from the same mindset.

When someone in a community other than yours says what you are saying or doing makes them uncomfortable, stop. Everybody messes up sometimes. I have messed up. But just listen up and stop.

As of today, I am 5 days status post methotrexate therapy for treatment of an ectopic pregnancy. Although I certainly was prone to rage against shit like this before, my experience as a newly-minted "woman who is GUILTY of killing her (very wanted, but that's beside the point) BABY" has amplified my feelings about…

I'm inclined to agree, and then I remember crap like the Chinese One-Child Policy, which is the creation of a self-proclaimed "secular" state that's led to countless numbers of back-alley abortions, rampant human right abuses and terrible demographic imbalances. Then I tend to think that nobody gets to claim the high…

And THIS is what I find so infuriating about 'pro-lifers' in the United States.

If the anti-abortion nutcases in this country have their way, this will be us before long. God damn these fucking zealots. Why aren't the lives of women considered more valuable than a cluster of cells?

You have to understand, the only vaginas with which these particular old, white gentlemen have ever had any experience were dry and unwilling.

These folks are more likely to believe in unicorns than in women's bodily autonomy.

I initially misread that phrase as "pain capable unicorn babies".

Had just graduated from college and was interviewing for jobs. Human resources lady calls me for a second interview, which goes well. She calls me for a third and arranges it at a local café (for a change of scenery). She looks amazing, but much different than she had the prior to appointments. It becomes obvious that…

I texted a friend during to make brunch plans.

We went to highschool together. The first time we ever boned, he was counting, out loud. It wasnt until he gasped out "...three!..." that I realised he was counting at all. When he got to "....six!...." he came. He was counting the thrusts....out loud. He's still known as "Thrusty" to my friends. He went a bit cray…