My former mother-in-law warned me about eating too many roasted pumpkin seeds at the Mexican flea market we went to. She said it could cause acne to get worse, but I didn't know it could cause that. I'm mortified.

It's actually one of the worst schools in Northside. I'm from this area and this school is really bad. Like the gangs run the school bad. Fights in the classroom and teachers do nothing bad. Drug dealing out of lockers. But this isn't new, both of my parents graduated from Sam Houston in the 80s and it was ghetto…

It's a common policy in Texas schools, especially in the Houston metropolitan area. Faced with budget cuts, they now fine students for minor infractions ranging from putting gum under a table to schoolyard fights. These are hefty fines and if their parents don't pay them, either the student or the parents can be put…

There's a report by Texas Appleseed about the school-to-prison pipeline. It's actually a big deal at Sam Houston High School because the entire school is ran by gangbangers and all sorts of miscreants. As a result they treat the students like they're an insurgent population that needs to be put down.

There's a difference between whining/crying and telling someone to drop dead. Apparently you can't distinguish the two.

As a Xicana woman I think the number is higher but there is so much institutionalized sexism in our culture that these women may not consider their rapes as rape. There is no discussion about consent in Xican@ households. The sisters have to treat the brothers as if they are gods on earth. And the females like me…

I remember I was listening to the debate on HB2 at work when Wendy Davis was reading a story about a woman who had to abort one of her twins because it was severely deformed. The woman's testimony mentioned how the fetus was absorbed into her sister and she said that the sister carried the spirit of her brother. She…

Sex ed in Houston in 2005 consisted of showing us "The Miracle of Birth" without telling us how or why that woman was giving birth. We had to make health-related posters so I made one that said "Use condoms" in English and Spanish and they wouldn't post it on the wall for legal reasons.

Herpes, HPV, and genital warts can still spread with a condom if you make the "legalizing prostitution increases condom use" argument. They're based on skin-to-skin contact in the ano-genital region, meaning any infected area on the vulva or scrotal region can lead to the spread of disease. The prevalence rate of…

I was wondering where all these Ron Paul voters were. Apparently they're on these fora.

Over half of these rape kits are at the Houston Crime Lab. Why have they been untested? Their chief forensics officer frequently showed up to work shitfaced drunk and they put little funding into testing these kits going back 20 years. Wouldn't surprise me if more than one person was wrongfully executed based on…

I'm banking on dying before my parents do. Just driving to work nearly got me killed.

His face would make any sensible woman's uterus shrivel and turn their vagina from an innie into an outie.

Awh, that's not real creative! My favorites are "freelance wizard," "gila monster journalist," and my favorite, "gastropod gynecologist."

An actual line I blurted at an office meeting: "I wouldn't drive alone in western Louisiana because the people living there might eat my flesh."

I was 14 and hit on by a 30 year old married man with 2 kids. The kicker? When I was 14 I looked 10.

It's more dangerous to remove 4 impacted wisdom teeth than have an abortion.

The death penalty for abortions is not "understandable" unless we're living in Gilead.

I do have my issues with her (deep into oil and gas interests, keeping the red light cameras around unconstitutionally), but it's always news gold when she's trolling the Hotzes and Patricks that are found in the suburbs of Houston.

"Let's legalize gay money...er, uh, gay marriage."—Mayor Quimby