It is actually stated in the article that he prefers he/him pronouns.

I knew someone exactly as you described.  He was a teacher, mentor and friend to me and lost his battle with this terrible disease.  I am thankful every day that science has given us more hope for those who are positive but it still breaks my heart that my dear friend never benefitted.

Stigmas only disappear when more people talk openly about their illnesses. Though it’s hard to imagine now, it was once taboo to talk about breast cancer. That didn’t change until women stopped acting like keeping their cancer private was not just something that they might want to do, but what everyone should want to…

It’s called privacy.

Agree. My husband is an infectious disease physician. The IDSA suggests all sexually active people get tested for HIV every year.

Jonathan is non-binary but he has stated a preference for the he series pronouns.

It makes me so sad that there were probably so many bubbly JVNs in the 80s and early 90s who got the same news at 25 and didn't live to see 30. Thank goodness (science) for HIV/AIDS research. 

You’re probably right, but they can also do a two minute Google search to confirm they can’t get the virus from someone doing their hair.

Your response seems to buy into a lot of stigmatization. It sucks that he would ever feel the need to hide his status, any more than someone should be ashamed to reveal they have diabetes. I suspect he would’ve talked about it anyway, in the parallel universe where Hillary won the election. Because destigmatizing HIV…

This! In the acknowledgments section of The Testaments, she even thanks Hulu for making sure that anything they added to the show still made reference to an actual historical event - she refers to this as a rule for the books’ universe.

What’s interesting to me about the prophetic angle, is that Atwood is first and foremost a historian. She has long-stated that the content of The Handmaid’s Tale was not some horror fantasy she dreamt up - she pulled each piece of it from history. It still falls well within the dystopian category, but I am sometimes…

Like, “give a copy of this book to every girl you know on her 12th birthday”.

Me too, I read Handmaid’s Tale as a teen in the late 80's. When I was finished, I thought to myself that it was one of the best novels I’d ever read, and I’d never read it again. Terrifying. I wish more of my peers had read it.

Just in terms of her prose, Atwood is a phenomenal writer and her books always have that as a redeeming quality.

Having said that, I’ve not read Handmaid’s Tale yet for the same reasons you haven’t and I told myself I’d pick it up the day after Trump was no longer in office.

Honestly, I’m sort of glad it happened and that it wasn’t as bad as it easily could have been. It was a near miss to a rape for me, and I’m deeply thankful that it didn’t cross the line over to rape. It was a learning experience that came with some confusion, angst, and shame, but was probably cheap at the price. It…

#MeToo is for everyone. You’re not co-opting it by sharing your story. It’s for you too. I’m sorry you had to go through this.

No to co-opt the #MeToo movement, but this article applies to me from my time in the military. Assault is perhaps too strong a word for what happened to me, but if I have been a drink or two drunker it certainly would have gone that way. In my case it was wheedling, cajoling, and flattery that turned to disdainful…

Eight years ago we all thought Sarah was the most dysfunctional and absurd thing that would ever happen to politics in the United States. Things are now so bad that I can’t even remember what it is she (and hubby) got up to.

My favorite memory of them is before I knew the name Palin.

“Good Christians” don’t get a divorce. The shock. The utter... predictability.