King County has one of the lowest vaccination rates in North America. It makes me beyond mad, I live in the PNW as well (near Victoria) and the attitude is very similar. When I was working in Guatemala, I met women who- no word of a lie-bundled up their kids and hiked over a VOLCANO to get their kids immunized. Unless…

Holy crap, that’s a rough go of a childhood. Yep, yep, vaccines for everyone (except those with legitimate medical reasons for not getting them)!

This is going to be long, because I have a lot of pent up feelings.

Right? Can we make diluted pot baked goods so I CAN eat half a pan of brownies and just be comfortably stoned. Because that really sounds like the ideal situation for me.

It’s not just video games. I drag race my car as a hobby just for fun and I’m actually pretty competitive because I practice a lot and put the money and time in to make my car faster

Not really surprising when doing “X like a girl” or losing to a woman is considered horribly emasculating and something to be avoided at all costs. You see if everywhere, not just video games — if a woman does something on par or better (or percieved to be better), a lot of men will lash out. Even if not verbally or…

Back when I was single, I used to use Mario Kart as a test for whether or not I should consider dating a guy seriously. I was (and am) really good at it, and seeing how a guy reacts to losing to a girl at a video game really tells you a lot about what kind of person they are. I even warned them in advance that I was…

The basis for outlawing pedophilia is a huge power imbalance that renders children incapable of consenting to sex with adults. It doesn’t mean that children are incapable of knowing the difference between right or wrong or that they are just making shit up when they say they feel uncomfortable or unsafe.

It’s not about supporting or not supporting the mother (BTW, I’m not sure if it was the guardian or the children’s attorneys but if you read the transcript some of the people advocating for the kids literally JUST met them)...it’s the fact that she put these children in a juvenile detention center, barring them from…

I think it’s a bit silly to claim that every child of divorce would choose one parent or the other if given a choice. I’m a child of divorce, too, and despite knowing that that my father was objectively kind of a bad guy (he was literally a cult leader who physically abused my mother and many other people), I still…

Yeah, my dad thinks that my mom turned me and my siblings against him, when in fact we were the ones who persuaded her to leave him, finally, because he was/is an emotionally manipulative manbaby. The things he tells his new wife are crazy; I don’t do a lot to correct her, because wow is that none of her fucking…

It’s possible. It’s also possible she’s just internalized the misogyny of our society to such an extent that she’s capable of holding these awful opinions without any man involved.

I’m a few days shy of 34 and my dad was just complaining to my mom (they accidentally ran into each other at the store, the don’t speak socially anymore) that he doesn’t know what to do with me because I “don’t listen to him” and he’s worried.

“Sexism is sure great when it works for women.”

Yeah. I went through a minute when I refused to speak to my dad. My mom made me talk to him, in which I said “I’m not speaking to you” and hung up. Rather than have me incarcerated, my dad drove from Florida to Chicago to work shit out. Because that's what dads do.

Mr. Noir, I totally feel you, and for you. It’s super fucking hard to deal with, even after you think you’re so over it.

I mean, shit I read my fair share hof harlequin romance novels back in the day because I didn’t realize that there was actual porn for ladies until I was in my 20s so maybe I have refined my smut pallet, but JESUS this writing was terrible.

I read the books because I’ve always been of the opinion that I can’t trash a…

Well, it IS clear that she knows nothing about BDSM, seeing as she basically wrote an abusive relationship that happened to involve spanking. So it wouldn’t surprise me if she were inexperienced in other areas too. I know what she was going for with the front wall - she’s been told that’s where the G-Spot is (I’m not…

Adding a metanarrative that plays with and comments on the narrative of the godawful book, as well as questioning it. Cast the books’ narrative as a crazy, salacious account created by a moronic romance writer around a bunch of rumors and strange photos taken by an unnamed papparazi. Contrast it with various accounts…

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