Right, the poor kid! And I know that when I was sad or in a bad mood, my mom would pack something extra good or something I didn’t get every day in my lunch to surprise me and cheer me up. The teachers might not know what’s going on with the kid day in and day out, or that those deadly Oreos might have been because…

I'm pretty sure my only response to both of you is DTMFA.

This frustrates me because, as a chronic pain sufferer, I’m all too aware of the fact that pain is, literally, in your head. Your body sends the signals to the brain to tell you that you hurt. That doesn’t ever mean your pain isn’t real, but drugs (like antidepressants) can have an effect on the chemicals and pathways…

My long hair falls out from a combination of thyroid disease and very strong medication. I couldn't date a dude who was that upset about hair. What if I got cancer, dude? My hair falls out. It's more traumatic for me than for you, I assure you, so get over it.

I am normally all for being super polite and pro-actively accommodating on flights (got separated from your family? I'll switch, even if I have to sit bitch). But if this ever happened, I would quietly, politely, and firmly refuse to move my seat, unless it was to first class with greatest apologies. I don't care if…

After 13 years of best-friendship and about half that being romantically involved, including calling off a wedding to be with him, and recently looking at engagement rings, we were on the rocks. He'd been flirting with some chick on Twitter in the UK, but I figured that was all it was. Then he planned a sudden solo…

that was my thought! I mean, what's worse, Splenda or beaver anal gland secretions? I would think she'd be all about that.

I think someone needs to find and replace her use of "faggot" with the n-word and read it back to her and see how she feels about that.

The case was more complicated. She had already undergone female genital mutilation, and when she tore, the woman's husband had the doctor sew her all the way back up, much much more than was medically indicated. The doctor was cleared, though I'm not sure he should have been.

I think that we need to stop abbreviating female genital mutilation to FGM. Let's force ourselves to consider the horror of this act every single time we mention it. They are mutilating women's genitals.

It seems like he made an honest mistake - I wonder if it's because the term "people of color" has become the pc term du jour - I can see how when speaking live one might accidentally say "colored actors" instead of "actors of color" or something like that. But he certainly apologized sincerely so I hope that's the end…

I feel you so much on this! I got one after my first time and I was at an amusement park for the weekend two hours away with a dozen friends who were total troopers and helped me carry around a gallon of cranberry juice and constantly go to the bathroom. I only realized what it was because my friend's little sister…

Random question - have you ever talked to your doctor about interstitial cystitis? It can feel like a UTI and your comment just make me think of it because caffeine is often a major trigger of it. I thought I had it once but they decided that I just seem to get easily irritated, but I have some triggers.

If you get them in succession, you may not really be getting rid of them. I discovered that the antibiotics they were giving me were just suppressing them a bit, and then they'd come back. They had to give me a strong course of cipro to get them to really stop, and they did stop. Just my experience and apparently a…

It really only matters that you pee after. I've been told to pee before and after, and I am pretty careful about it. I guess I drink a lot of water, but I never have a problem peeing after, or maybe this urologist doesn't take very long. But I used to get UTIs constantly and now I pretty much never do, so, I'm gonna…

I wanna know what Jill is wearing because that color is AMAZING.

Oh, I definitely agree that the emotional damage is way worse. How do you live your life with your father as your husband? If he dies, if it ends, how do you move on? How do you bring him to work parties? Yeah, sex is definitely not the biggest problem here.

Right, but I think incestuous experimentation is a LOT different than an incestuous relationship. I agree that the former is very common and doesn't weird me out, really. But that's very, very different from having an ongoing romantic relationship with a relative.

Yeah, I read that one - and while I'll say there are no victims there (unless we consider them both victims), I'm not super cool with it. I feel like experimentation is one thing, but they should have bonded with other people and grown away from that. Part of a parent's job is to be aware of your kids and how they are…

Yeah, seriously. Lots of people like and dislike the same things. I don't want to be pooped on during sex. Bet my dad doesn't either. Correlation, not causation.