My entire life, including some very questionable dealings with birth control, pharmacists have either given me no answers to my questions about medication or showed a complete lack of understanding (‘do you need to take them now?’ in response to my complaint about them not being able to refill my birth control pills…

Said lots of people who don’t enough money for a medical procedure than costs hundreds of dollars and often isn’t covered by insurance, are incapable of taking the lots of days off it might require to perhaps a hundred miles to the nearest abortion clinic and comply with mandatory waiting periods. All while perhaps…

Holy shit @ that memorial. Just... wow.

It’s almost like throwing the criminal justice system at every societal problem we can think of doesn’t actually work. But, hey, at least we have the added bonus of keeping pregnant women afraid of their doctors and seeking treatment for fear of jail time!

How? These men are struggling with poverty, being in the criminal justice system, trauma, drug addiction. The fact that their struggles are recognized doesn’t raise them above single mothers, nor does it erase the struggles poor single mothers face either. Certainly there needs to be recognition and more respect for…

A month in freaking Rikers is not fair punishment for bullshitting an excuse about missing work once, let alone telling the truth.

Either you have a truly fascinating conception of whiteness given the men featured in that trailer you didn’t watch, or you need to step up your trolling game by a lot.

So because single mom’s face problems single dads problems don’t count? We shouldn’t talk about them? Shun them from empathy and all social services because in a society with an oppressive criminal justice system, racism, sexism, and income inequality we can only talk about one set of people with struggles at a time?

“Nobody has a right to disrupt other people’s political rallies, whether you call it protesting or something less flattering.”

I love this cover too -

“I always led with condoms and honesty when it came to my condition.”

Not true at all, multiple states criminalize simply having sex with a partner without disclosing HIV status, irregardless of condom usage or whether that partner actually became infected with HIV or not. And even if a person did disclose, it was likely to be done in private with no witnesses (unless it happened over…

Literally just a basic inspection of the structural soundness of a property would pick up on that swing being unsafe. Hotel pools and the area surrounding them get inspected. Rooms get inspected. Dining areas and kitchens get inspected. Gyms get inspected. We don’t have specific treadmill laws as far as I know. And…

Nothing is stopping people from caring about more than one thing, and for different people to have different problems without those problems taking away from the importance of others.

I’m so sick. Like the snottiest grossest cold ever. Holding a 1 woman pity party in my bedroom tonight.

Because rape isn’t an acceptable punishment for crime. Ever.

Actually, Bureau of Justice Statistics (in surveys mandated by PREA) found the percentage rate of reported sexual assaults at around slightly more than half perpetrated by other prisoners and slightly less than half assaults perpetrated by staff. http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pd… and http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=p…

Stuff like this (mushy romance cliches, often an emphasis on mirroring traditional gender roles) is written by and for women pretty much. There’s also lot of lesbian fiction & erotica written by lesbian/bi women but IDK if there’s a lot of gay fiction actually written by gay men or not. I think romance novels are…

My thighs just glued themselves together NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE

Youthful would have to mean prepubescent here if youthful means no visible inner labia on any women. So yeah. Creepy.