....I liked fried spam growing up.

Wow. you totally replied without actually bothering to read anything I said.

I think what bothers me about this isn't that women (or men) choose to have plastic surgery; it's that we have beauty standards that result in so many people (often women) feeling that they just aren't enough.

I didn't mind being a part of the girl scouts. I didn't mind it being all girls, either. I minded that our particular troop leader was very heavily on the "let's do activities GIRLS like!" No, I don't like rolling ice cream. No, I don't like dressing up as a goddamn sparkly present for a parade. No, I don't want to…

.....why isn't election day a federal holiday?

Well this should be interesting.

sure, that's what fetal homicide laws are for.

Oh man, I totally would have bought it, especially at 17. :/

Yeah, and I'm telling you you're wrong. It's not laziness. It can certainly be bad, mediocre, unsuccessful, boring, and any number of things - but rarely is it laziness.

Mostly it's laziness.

To me, the bigger issue is that this person presumably just returned from Africa on a plane that probably landed at DFW Airport or Love Field with other people in it. How long would people be asymptomatic for if they caught it from this guy?

If you are unwilling to give up the name to avoid the decisiveness, why would I want to be your ally?

Sure, but I'm a fan of making allies based on the strength of the position - including deconstructing why people object to the word feminism. It's actually a very appropriate word that has been grossly misrepresented.

1. May be small but are very loud. The word feminism needs to die based on its divisiveness, which is inherent in the word.

The goals of western feminism in 2014 however are not equality but the mutilation and/or elimination of gender difference.

honestly? I find it pretty reassuring. For all the things that go wrong (and in some cases, horrifically wrong), the birth happens. There's a live baby, and a mother that survives birth.

neither do women. Hymens really don't work that way.

I hated pink growing up as well. But really, I think it was just an early expression of my contrarianism ;)

I was a very dedicated seven year old. I had an awful Texas twang that I was teased for when my family moved to California - I spent literally every afternoon for a good..year practicing specific words.

It's not uncommon for rape victims to delay reporting. Regardless, some of the major issues here are structural ones regarding how complaints are handled. The fact that once the complaint has been made it can still take months to complete the process, inaccurate notes taken when the victim is interviewed, not…