There are generally very large differences between accepted cultural norms and religious mandates as well. You can challenge one without rejecting the other.

Gag. Now I can't stop picturing that attached to a real person. Trying to get all sexy and then being all "YOUR DICK IS BLEEDING!"

This is pretty much the perfect comment. Hilarious, topical, and makes any reader that gets it feel wonderfully superior and snobby.

Maybe we have all learned?

Yeah, I really liked what JessInOhio just replied to me (I recommended but it still appears in the greys). Recognizing it less clinically could help show it as a wide-spread social problem not a "woah look at these really skinny hospitalized girls in this TLC special".

I agree that most women have, at some point, engaged in disordered eating. Terrifying, really. Though the point of my post was to get past the idea of "diagnosing" it in most cases, but just looking at it differently, less clinically (though still looking at it clinically in extreme cases).

Yeah, people seem hooked on the idea that either you've got a full-blown, get-thee-to-a-rehab-centre eating disorder or you have no eating disorder at all, which is really problematic. I don't really know how to fix that, maybe shift the focus from "having an eating disorder" to "you engage in disordered eating" would…

I would have sent home a letter (to all the kids) with the little white lie saying that some kids were being ostracised because of poor hygeine habits (sure, maybe that isn't happening yet but how the hell is anyone supposed to figure that out) and with a list of necessary daily habits (tooth brushing, bathing, clean…

Well that's exactly the point though. The jury is still out, so it seems rude and unnecessary to negate a whole bunch of people's beliefs. It's a little premature to say, definitively, whether it's fiction or not so there's no point in being rude.

No there are atheists saying, at this point, there is no philosophical argument strong enough to render religion irrational.

Yeah but given that the academic sphere of Philosophy of Religion (which includes religious people, deists and atheists) is still mostly in agreement that it hasn't been proven either way, I don't think it's reasonable to categorize it as fiction.

I don't know. It seems offensive to me to list any religious text as fiction, even if you don't believe in the religion yourself. I'm not a Muslim but I would find it offensive as all hell if someone was selling the Qu'ran under the fiction label.

Do I get an internet point for guessing correctly. I REALLY want an internet point.

To be perfectly honest, it wouldn't be all that hard to become owners of a world-class winery. Pretty simple really, buy an established vineyard with a good history of making great wines, re-name it and . snipe a fantastic wine-maker from another winery. Within a few years you can be making superb wines even if you,…

The speaker always told the story of one guy who said exactly that. The speaker responded by yelling at the guy to sit down and stop lying because everyone knows he's just saying that to be a punk and look cool infront of everyone. He bragged about publicly humiliating a teenager brave enough to stand up to his…

I can't say I disagree with the concept, to each their own. I didn't. But I also think that MrBanana and I would have just as good of a relationship now if we did. I also think it would have been kind of fun to have super awkward first-time sex with one another but I'm not bent out of shape about it. Not an…

He did technically say that there was still hope for you if you weren't a virgin anymore, but only if you promise Jesus and your future husband to never have sex again until your wedding night. Perhaps then some gallant forgiving soul will be able to overlook your sordid past.

Ours was named Brad Henning. What a goddamn gem he was. Pretty sure I spent the majority of my teenage years freaking out that I would be forever unloveable because of this dude. But now that I'm married to the awesomest dude on the planet, I think I can safely say he's wrong. TAKE THAT SUCKER, MY HUSBAND STILL WANTED…

Our school (in Canada, but the dude was from the states) had a speaker come in every year that would tell the guys in the room to raise their hand if they were ok with their future wife "fooling around" right now. Generally nobody would raise their hand (both because they weren't paying attention, they knew they…

That's AWESOME! It's also solved some tummy problems on my end as well as a few other things. But no wait, right, I'm supposed to be snarky about people making dietary choices they feel work for them and improve their body...*stupidpeoplefaddietsgrumblegrumble*