At this point I'm convinced that Ann Coulter is a left-wing plant designed to make the right look more crazy. She's doing a fine job for us. A fine, fine job.

But because it was sent to the (male and female) RA's it makes a hell of a lot of sense to remind them to be watchful. There is a line between (potential)victim-shaming and just good advice to keep an out out for those around you.

Or some of us turned in to surrogate parents because our real parents were out spending what little money they had on cigarettes and booze and then when we were at the point of leaving they decided to grow the fuck up and turned in to real parents who went to things like school events meaning that our sisters had it…

tl;dr version of her response:

"If anything this was to celebrate the amazing country and people."

Yes. Africa is SUCH an amazing country of people. And all its little provinces of Egypt and Sudan are soooooo cute.

WHAT THE FUCKEDY FUCK ARE YOU THINKING WHITE PEOPLE?

I'm sure the conservative blogosphere headlines will be something along the lines of 'White House plants pregnant diabetic in audience, keeps her from food to stage Nobama rescue'.

Fox News Exclusive: Osama attacks unborn child

The Andrew Maynard post makes my blood boil. Once again, the bad behavior is on the part of the man; the responsibility to make sure there are no consequences is put on the woman. Oh, his marriage might be destroyed? Let me think for a second about whose fault THAT might be....

Yes, but there will always be assholes who jump at any opportunity to make a buck off of some sort of illness. It's best to ignore such things, or maybe point out their stupidity from time to time. It isn't PMDD that's to blame, but rather it's the sort of people who would use it as an argument against women.

Guilt and shame. Because of abuse done to you by the boss. Why are these the go to emotions for women? I hate it.

Interesting. I heard the NPR piece this morning and it seemed to me that the researcher who had trepidations about classifying a disorder that is only experienced by women, wasn't opposed to the classification per se, she just wanted to make sure everyone did their due diligence before it got written up (which she…

WRONG PROBLEM, GUISE.

Still, skeptics of PMDD in the DSM V fear that the disorder's relative rareness won't stop the "PERIODS MAKE LADIES CRAZY!" trope from gaining new steam from the pathologizing of PMS.

i heard the story this morning and i think this article is a bit of a misleading and one-sided presentation of what was said. no one disagrees that drug companies should not exploit pmdd by turning regular pms into a reason for anti-depressants (as was discussed on the program and here, sarafam is just prozac by…

I was diagnosed with PMDD about 6 months ago. Let me just say that it absolutely feels like a full on mental disorder. To the point that you feel suicidal, are in danger of losing your job, and can barely maintain relationships because you get one 'good' week out of every month. I'm ok with it being taken hella…

This sucks. In high school I thought I had PMDD because I would severely lose it all the time and I went to the gyno for the first time ever (!!) just to ask to be put on these meds thanks to those damn commercials. Today, I still have PMDD listed as a diagnosis. But the worst part is that six years later I was…

You may see it as stigmatizing when something ends up in the DSM, but back here in the real world insurance companies will not pay for anything that doesn't have a diagnosis code attached. So hell yeah, having PMDD in there is wonderful, as is Binge Eating Disorder.

Yes, the commercial is stupid. Actual symptoms of PMDD include the inability to get out of bed, engaging in self harm, missing work, extreme intractable rage & suicide. Women die from PMDD. My friend lost her amazing, smart, funny, accomplished sister to PMDD. If a drug was actually available that worked (not…

K, so every time a new disorder is classified, then of course big pharma is going to hop all over that. The advantage that people often don't see to diagnoses is that individuals who are actually disabled by this disorder are then able to claim medical benefits if they genuinely can't work because of it, or are able…