Now I’m just really confused as to how 5 Things Every Female Virgin Should Know (And No One Will Tell Her) came to be one of the most popular posts of 2015 when it was written in 2008.

...That escalated quickly.

Whatever he did, I’m fairly convinced that what he underwent with the Taliban was more than punishment enough.

We just gave them my husband’s last name. Tradition was easiest there. Again, primary motivation for me = laziness. Hyphens are annoying, and I didn’t really care about passing on my last name.

I pretty much didn’t change my name after my marriage out of laziness, but I lied to my husband and said I Felt Strongly About The Patriarchy And My Name is My Name.

I’m gonna watch the fuck out of this. #NoShame

I guess I missed the moment when adult baby fetishes went mainstream. I would have been okay with a world where they hadn't.

My husband and I talk to my stepkid about sex (as much as she hates it) if only because my husband had her as a teenager, and he was the product of abstinence-only education. While there’s definitely a part of him that would rather pretend she’s not going to have sex until she’s 30, the realistic part of him would…

This one was totally appropriate, though - right Abby?

“Bintee” means “my girl”. “Bint” is “girl”. The “ee” sound at the end indicates the possessive pronoun “my”.

I got it from the etymology of the word in various dictionaries: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bint

I hate the word “bint”. British military officers took the Arabic word for “girl” and turned it into a word meaning “woman who’s a stupid twit”. It’s pretty racist in its origin.

Why is the baby living with protective services at all? I thought usually emergency placements were with family members, when available, and the family member willing. I understand a social worker being in place while the adoption paperwork goes through, but it seems wrong for the baby girl to not be with her…

Jesus, lady. Just talk to your kid. “Sweetie, I know you’re away from home for the first time and figuring out how to live life on your own, but it worries me when we don’t get to talk to you for a while. Can we promise to call at least once a week to check in and see how things are going? I love you, and know that…

It’s just such a bizarre story all around, but perhaps the scariest aspect of it is how it is such an outlier from any previously recognized pattern for either mass shootings or Islamic terrorism in America. When the pattern starts to change, that’s the time to worry.

Part of me just hopes that the cops didn’t know the exact nature of what they were raising money for, that it was billed as a college fund for the guy’s kids or something. Because, otherwise, donating to the bail of that guy after that video? Ugh. Just, ugh.

I’m familiar with that stop. But there’s a reason it’s on the other side of Washington Park. A park that, when I briefly attended U of C, first years were warned to stay out of at night.

U of C is a predominantly white school in the middle of the mostly black south side of Chicago, with a pretty nasty racial history. It was due to the university’s influence, for example, that there is no El stop in that neighborhood. The university didn’t want more black people coming through.

I never know what to do with these kinds of cases. I am a survivor of rape, and deeply believe in showing support and compassion to victims, but at the same time I am deeply uncomfortable with the idea that a person’s personal and professional life can and should be ruined based on two tweets, with absolutely no…

Ironically, most Arabs now use Hindi numerals rather than Arabic ones, though there’s been a movement to reclaim the Arabic numerals.