Same. For me it was the difference between being an undergrad English major and a graduate student in compositon and rhetoric. It was hard for me to come around because I was so GOOD at grammar! But now I’m team "effective communication is all that really matters."

Oh I had a ton of fun on a thread once trolling a person who decided to correct me on something stupid. I don’t remember what it was, but it was one of those where I knew the correct way but thought it sounded better the technically incorrect way. So I replied with more and more stupid errors, and they kept coming…

Same.

My hypocritical, will-not-budge pedantic line is the pronunciation of especially. THERE IS NO FREAKING X IN ESPECIALLY!

“I’ve got a pretty sweet vulva myself.”

Right? I taught my daughter to say vagina. Everyone knows what she means when she says vagina, and she’s already way ahead of the kids, who call it hoo-ha or whatever. I will teach her all the parts when she’s a bit older, but for now I feel like “vagina” can be all-encompassing enough. Little boys don’t know their…

My husband was going to get snipped when my last IUD was up, but I love it so much (no periods!!!) that I went in for another 5 years.

When I first hit publish, I had put “pendant” instead of “pedant.” I corrected it immediately, but it wasn’t showing up right away. Those were a tense 3 minutes as I waited for the edit to show up and hoped that no pedants would show up to call me out for using the wrong word for pedant.

NO! The proper VULVA is on the right.

HA! When I started college one of my dorm-mates was this very sweet white girl from a tiny, white town. She spent the whole first few days going on and on about “I loooove black people! They are just so coooool!” A few of us had to pull her aside and let her know that she was overcompensating.

I used to refer to the whole shebang (inner and outer) as a vagina. But I had to stop because pedants here and elsewhere were always correcting people. “Actually, I think what you’re referring to is the vulva...”

My first IUD 6 years ago was WAAAAAY more expensive than its replacement last year.

That was my thought exactly. With all this abstinence-only nonsense, if birth control use is actually increasing, there must be lots of teens getting their information from the internet these days.

That’s on my Labor Day weekend Vagenda.

I read The Price of Salt (that Carol is based on) in grad school. It was v. v. good and v. v. tragic. I might have to watch this at some point.

I personally feel the same way you do, but I’m not black. And black people have been (and continue to be) discriminated against in our society, so that’s a little different than someone trying to pass as a member of the privileged race. So, I’m certainly not going to tell a black person that they shouldn’t be offended…

I got a secret subscription to Cosmo when I was 13 or 14. I mailed them actual cash. And then I always checked the mailbox before my mom during the week the Cosmo would come. Then I would lock myself in my room and read all the sex articles and especially the advice column.

In the article in the links at the bottom from last April, she was all, we’re all one race— what’s the big deal? I think she may be shifting slightly? IDK. There was really no good way for her to come away from this not looking like an asshole. But she’s clearly passionate about civil rights so I hope she does somehow…

I have gay family members and gay friends. I’m a huge advocate for anti-discrimination laws for LGBT+ people. I proudly consider myself an ally.

“I’ll show my tits when I want to,” she concluded