A good family friend works at our state hospital association and I know they have done some major work in getting ACA approved and liked here. Since we are in a state that decided not to expand medicare, they have now put a ton of their lobbying efforts into that. From my understanding, ACA is going to help hospitals…

Agree. I have heard this "dressed up" version of submission all the time. Evangelicals go on and on about how submission doesn't mean the women is weaker or less important, but then use that as an excuse for men to take lead in almost every aspect of the church. Not buying it.

Thank you! I am currently bottle feeding littlebassoon and I always feel like I have to justify why. I have passable excuse (medication and surgery), but it frustrated me that people feel like they are justified to an explanation in the first place. Why can't "I don't want to" be an acceptable reason?

Seriously! That is the next step if you follow their logic. I think this is the most disturbing thread I have read on this site, ever.

If only I leaked those untouched photos of Lena Dunham...

What you are missing is the kind of women who get themselves raped, aren't truly godly women. I mean, how can she call herself a godly women when she drinks! wears short skirts! or hangs out with men alone? They tell themselves (and the women in the schools) that if they were doing the right thing, they wouldn't be…

I don't know, the way so many of the really "devoted" people take it, you might have laws banning knitting because it uses the super special dyed yarn in a way never intended.

That is amazing and so needed. I think I was lucky not to be raised in a very religious home, so when I left I still had my family. I know how hard it was for me to leave everything, I cannot imagine how much harder it would be with family involved.

Hugs. So many hugs your way!

I am glad I am out too! The stories I could tell about that intensely cult-like group is just amazing. The sad part is, this group doesn't stop at my college. They are the largest Christian outreach group in the world and have members/supporters in all levels of the private and public sectors. Unfortunately most of…

I honestly had so much self hate after everything that I completely bought into everything. And I know a few people in the group didn't really consider what happen to me rape because I admitted to drinking before. I know, for a while at least, I started not considering it rape.

Honestly, I started pulling away when I started a relationship with my female roommate. However, it took me completely moving away from the school before I really saw how horrible it was.

As someone who fell into a crazy Christian group in college, I cannot count the number of times I have heard this bull. I remember talking about purity and marriage at a women's retreat and I had just talked about my past history of rape (at that time my only sexual experience.) Two different leaders kept telling me…

I have to admit, this was possibly the most triggering scene personally. I think it was a combination of her raw self hatred and disturbing idea that she could run imto the guy years later im a completely different setting. I have to say the whole storyline (at lwast far as I have watched) has made me love Claire…

I am not a fan of the Nutcracker Ale... Though that is the one beer I always forget I don't like when I am highly intoxicated and order. I agree, not their best work.

That might be my afternoon project. I can think of worse things to spend my tax returns on.

Well there are people there that... shh... aren't white... and we all know what that means. She took me out of the will for an entire year when I brought home a Hispanic boyfriend. But don't worry, she's not racist.

My grandmother never let us go north of the south part 435 (unless we were going to the plaza) and thought the Oak Park Mall was sketchy. When we go to KC these days it is usually to see them, so we rarely make it to Westport.

You order the Boulevard by the case? Any chance you want to ship some of that down to the capital city? We get one case for the entire town.

I will have to check that place out next time I am near Westport, which unfortunately is not that often since all my friends and family in the KC Metro live in Johnson County. Is there a good local BBQ place near there? That is a good way to trick mrbassoon to go anywhere.