I got a kitty a little bit more than a year ago and I can’t even deal with how much I love him. He can be a complete and total shit, has had a few annoying and expensive health problems, and randomly throws up on my stuff, but I love that damn cat with every fiber of my being.

Mr. Werner was also firmly a dog person until we got a cat. He swears you need to own one to get it, because “dogs love everyone, but cats love their own people”.

yeh this is literally at the bottom of me ‘to care about’ list.

Thank you so much for sharing your story.

So you’re saying you made a well thought out, reasonable decision about your health and your body; the people responsible for it did not judge or subject you to their personal bias; and your supportive partner was there for you and cared for you before, during and after.

I don’t think the law is about why or whether you wanted to have sex with him. The law is about why or whether an adult wants to have sex with a teenager. It’s totally understandable that teenagers glamorize and desire older men - everything about that time in our lives says hurry, grow up! As teenagers, we are naive…

I firmly believe age of consent laws are there for a reason, and do not mistake that I don’t think Bowie did the right thing. I don’t think any grown man should be sleeping with a girl that young, even if they are in their early 20s and blitzed out on cocaine. Like come on dude, you know she’s too young for you!

I think you summed up my conflicted feelings perfectly.

This is very well written. My feelings on this are complicated, but my instinct is that women should get to own their sexual history, whether its morally problematic or not. If Maddox says she’s okay with it, I believe her. If she had said she was raped, I also believe her.

I’m a litigator. Sometimes I’ll do oral argument before the Court and think, “shit, that felt like rambling. I bet I sounded so dumb. I must do better next time.” And then I get the transcript back and I’ve spoken eloquently throughout it. Comparatively, I imagine Palin is like “nailed it” after a speech and then…

Fingers crossed that Coldplay just doesn’t show up.

I mean, I get that line of thinking, but let’s keep it 100: why would she keep bringing that up if it wasn’t to try to shame him? Why would it be shameful?

I don’t think it’s objectively shameful, but it’s clear she intends it to be shaming, whether the embarrassment is from the act itself or just having very personal details revealed.

I wont claim to know the circumstances of this break up, but it sounds like for the past few years he has been the king of "WHATEVER BITCH ITS NOT LIKE I LIKED YOU ANYWAY"

I can proudly say I’ve yet to hear a single song of theirs! I made it out of this dark, dark time with ears unscathed!

This is not always true. Robbie came back to Take That! (Briefly, but he CAME BACK DAMNIT.)

“Why can’t women just be direct and honest if they don’t want to go out with you?!”

One of the more shocking realizations in my life is that I am probably as uncomfortable using a non-gender-specific restroom as my great-grandparents were at using a non-race-specific restroom. (Note: I am not saying that race and sexuality are the same or that their civil rights movements are completely parallel).

this part is my fav

We absolutely need to have better systems in place to support vets who come back from the war carrying the enormous mental, emotional, and physical scars of combat.