Haha right? It's sold in the supermarket and I was curious so I looked at the ingredients list, and it's basically Purina. So it's not even *good* dog food. If a chef can't even make something I'd feed my dogs...

I can't bear to eat at Waffle House because the color scheme they all have makes them look dirty to me. I've eaten there a few times when someone else dragged me and it really isn't bad, but I can't get over that irrational revulsion. I'm always surprised to walk into one and find that the air isn't heavy with…

Man, all I really knew about Rachel Ray is that her line of dog food is overpriced crap and her dishes are cute but chip absurdly easily which makes me feel like I wasted my money. Now I have a moral reason to dislike her as well as quality reasons. ;)

You know, out of a ton of female friends, I only have one who has talked to me about being sexually assaulted. So if I was using your standards, I'd agree with you.

Yes, and active in his church!

In my experience, they do use "purity" for men as well. With the churches I'm most familiar with, they use the same language for boys and girls alike, but they talk about it a lot more with girls, if that makes sense.

Very true.

That's not completely true. It's pretty common for boys to take abstinence pledges and wear purity rings as well. They just get to pledge their purity to God rather than their mothers, because men are the protectors and the head of the household not women argle bargle.

I feel the same way about the kids vowing stuff. I wanted to go to one of these when I was a kid because all my friends were going, and that was really all I thought about it. To me the pledge was meaningless. But I think if my dad hadn't refused to take me, that pledge probably wouldn't have stopped me from having…

I actually did ask my dad to go to one with me (13-year-old me's thought process was pretty much limited to, "All my friends are going so I want to go too!"), and he did refuse, because he said he wanted me free to make the best decisions for me without a pledge like that hanging over my head. At the time I was all…

They're usually called knit caps or stocking caps. :)

I mentioned it in another comment but I still remember back in elementary school when we had a fun day at the swimming pool, and one of my friends decided not to wear sunscreen because she wanted to tan. She wound up with such bad burns all over (even on the bottoms of her feet, I remember, which horrified me) that…

Yep. We used to have periodic "sunscreen breaks" on longer field trips where everyone had to reapply, and you'd get in trouble if the teachers caught you not doing it.

Tans were still seen as a good and natural thing when I went to school, but I grew up in the desert at a pretty high altitude so I think that was a lot of it. They didn't mind us getting tan but I still remember the time one of my friends in elementary school got such a deep sunburn they took her to the ER when we…

Man, when I was in school we were usually *required* to bring sunscreen on outdoor field trips.

I'm sure this has been said, but as someone who is 100% pro-choice (as in, I think it's a woman's right to stop being pregnant whenever she wishes, full stop) but also has some moral qualms with later-term abortion...fuck these laws so much.

I'd watch it if they set it where I live, where it'd be more "wander out into the desert to give birth surrounded by rattlesnakes and scorpions and cacti all with the cruel sun mercilessly beating down on you." I would watch that show for sure.

Well clearly you're not going to wind up with an Indigo Child with that attitude.

Right? I'm hoping that is a troll because I'm really struggling to understand how one could seriously call mariachi racist.

Leaving aside her terrible advice about rape and alcohol for a moment (and it is so bad), she also has an almost magical level of faith in agencies like the DMV. I stopped reading her awhile ago because of her rape stuff, but I used to read her religiously and reporting people to the DMV became a running joke in the…