Thanks for giving me the words to explain the past-and-present montage to my husband. I love the subtle and beautiful way this show is written and I was blown away by this experimental storytelling style in particular.

I didn’t know about erections until I touched one when I was fourteen and then BLAMMO everything suddenly made sense.

I hung out at lambda chi in the 90s, and I wasn’t surprised by this either. They were SO PROUD of not hazing. And Wayward Son.

But did you go out with him again?

I’ve heard this explained away through a claim that the eye of the needle was actually a metaphor for the city gates; so, not hard at all and necessary for the free flow of goods between cities. All in a day’s work. This is the only time I’ve ever heard an evangelical use metaphor and a call to the original Greek to…

It’s a thing that popped up around 15-20 years ago when the Christian Coalition merged with the GOP and the megachurches realized they could hold wealth and salvation-building seminars aimed at both groups.

Thank you! More proof that fundies don’t understand symbolism.

I’ve had to live with this tyranny for ten years. It’s called ratemyprofessor.com.

He keeps saying he just doesn’t want me to get diabetes. I eat vegan 70% of the time and I run like mad, so he should just damn well rest assured I know how to avoid the diabetes. It is kinda creepy when you’re dad is making comments about your body, though. Thanks for your comment.

I’ve explained to him a few times that you can’t diet when you’re breastfeeding or you’ll lose your milk, and it was hard enough getting the milk established. He makes that face like, “excuses, excuses...” but just hearing a different perspective from you all is making a difference. Thanks!

Thanks, you really did make me feel better! And you’re my first follower eveh!

H&M has super cheap workout clothes.

That’s not only an option, it’s a damn fine idea.

Dreams of Joy is a great novel about the Cultural Revolution

Yes. I don’t know what he’s hearing. Or what he’s thinking when I come in from running. But lord help me if I eat a potato chip.

Also he keeps breaking things because my husband buys cheap crap and then comes up with all these rituals and rules for treating cheap crap like gold so that it will last forever, and Dad doesn’t know the rituals. And husband won’t STFU about that.

Sad, gray loser here, but anyway...

Or when you get it but don’t laugh and they start explaining it because they think you just don’t get it. And then they get it.

Said Christ, meant JAYsus

I second this observation about the second item. Weirdest funeral I ever went to had an invitation at the end. For those of y’all who ain’t southern, it means the preacher asks people to come down to the front to publicly dedicate (or re-dedicate) their lives to Christ while we all sing a hymn and stare awkwardly at…