What states don't have clinic protesters? I've seen them everywhere I've lived.

I've seen them in the mountains of northern Colorado, among other places. You see them by the side of the road or just outside towns occasionally, and there's not even a huge moose population there.

Deer can also be pretty damn aggressive. I went on a rescue where we had to airlift this guy out and directly to a hospital because he had been attacked by a buck and seriously messed up. Between their sharp little hooves and their horns and their size, they can really mess you up. They're especially dangerous during…

I get comments about feeding my fit, healthy working dogs more all the time. People don't know how to recognize a healthy dog anymore. Seeing ribs isn't inherently bad, folks!

You could always fib a bit and tell them that she's developed a medical condition like insulin resistance and needs to be on a restricted diet starting now. It's pretty common for overweight dogs to develop conditions like that later in life.

FWIW, I've never done sex work but a good friend of mine has both stripped and been a cam girl, and I was surprised to see cam girls at the top of the heap too. From what my friend said, it's not like that at all. When she went back to stripping after having cammed for awhile, she told the women she was working with…

I think a major difference there is that celebrities aren't generally looked down on *for being celebrities*...instead, as you said, they're mocked for their decisions and actions, or maybe if they do their job (acting, or music, or whatever) very poorly, but even then it's about quality rather than the profession…

I don't know if you count them, but equestrian sports are co-ed. They're Olympic sports (well, three disciplines are anyway) and I don't think most people would argue that horse racing isn't a sport.

Totally agree. Although sadly people do sometimes try to police people with bad scars as well. I used to live next door to a couple who had really bad burn scarring, and some of the stories they told me about the way people treated them made me want to cry.

I grew up in an evangelical church that was definitely against public breastfeeding, which seems like pretty credible information to me. My "there's so much variation" was meant to apply to both evangelicals and Catholics, because I know not all evangelicals are against public breastfeeding. In my personal experience…

Ah, gotcha. I thought you were saying in your OP that you weren't around it much. I did get that it didn't bother you, though. :)

I think a lot of that surprise comes from the fact that we so rarely see it (assuming you're in the US like I am). I always had a momentary reaction like that too until I lived in an area where it was really common and now I don't even blink when I see a woman breastfeeding.

Have you seen that body shame extend specifically to breast feeding? I ask because part of my extended family is Catholic and is big on modesty and body-shaming as well, but they also don't seem to mind public breastfeeding one bit. I definitely associate the religious anti-breastfeeding weirdness with evangelicals…

Yeah, I understood what you were saying. I just thought it was unnecessary and rather nasty to make that comment. You have no idea what this woman is like except that she's suffering from a serious disease and has tattoos that you associate with crazy people, and yet you feel the need to call her crazy.

Huh, I know quite a few people with finger tattoos who are nice and sane and stable. WHOSE ANECDOTE WINS?

There are a ton of Montessori schools in my area that require vaccinations, if that makes you feel any better! I think it's gone mainstream enough that a lot have pretty normal policies about that kind of thing.

Have you ever been in a fitting room? It isn't some free-for-all with naked women walking around. There are separate mini-rooms. Even cari is just worried about a trans woman *overhearing* her talking about her breasts.

Right? I think I would literally die if I tried to eat that much soup in one sitting.

I don't just know thousands of "nice" pit bulls, I'm a professional dog trainer who has extensive training and experience with aggressive dogs. But okay.

That's completely untrue. Whether a bite is a "quick nip" or a full-on attack is much more related to the motivations for the attack than the breed. I've seen plenty of "quick nips" from bully breeds, and some very serious attacks from retrievers and other "friendly" breeds.