I can’t speak to body shaming in locker rooms because in my high school experience all of us kept to ourselves in the locker room. I’m not saying it didn’t happen, but if it did I never heard it. I have experienced my body being viewed without my full consent, and that felt like a violation despite the fact that I’m…

While this person is undoubtedly a troll, a lot of the replies are being alarmingly cavalier about corrective rape. All of the trans men I know have been either raped or otherwise assailed by cis men who were “curing” them. Now, of course, the answer to that is not isolation and denial of rights to trans people “for…

It’s not a big deal in that it would be infrequent and difficult enough to pull off, but please let’s not pretend that violating the privacy of a bunch of girls at once isn’t a big deal. I know it seems a bit silly given that there’s already an inherent lack of privacy in a locker room, but a person lying to take…

This kind of stuff actually worries me a little because I’m already highly intuitive and I don’t WANT to become more sensitive or attuned or whatever. Ever since I was little I’ve always had very sensitive intuition. Like, I remember a family friend was pregnant and one day I was at home with my family and the phone…

Only vaguely related but my mom, who is a pretty practical person and has never been religious, swears these two things are true: first, fairly innocuous, when my grandmother (her mom) passed, she was sitting up reading in bed (definitely not asleep) and felt a weight like someone had sat down on the bed next to her…

It’s interesting the way our brains interpret these things differently. Sleep paralysis is a universally terrifying feeling, but the fact that some have interpreted it as demon possession, some have interpreted it as aliens... for me, when I’ve experienced it my brain has interpreted it as an intruder who is holding…

I dunno, I read the waiver and automatically linked "physical contact" and "sexual content" because when you put them under the umbrella of terror/shock experiences those things are inextricably linked for me. I don't find physical contact scary. I do find sexual physical contact scary in some contexts, so my mind…

Normally I try to get pretty creative and put together my own costumes instead of buying anything. A few years ago my friends and I were the Scott Pilgrim gang, I was Kim Pine. We made little dialogue boxes like in the graphic novels where it gives character descriptions. 11th doctor was also a favorite of mine,…

Depending on what type of bendy he received (as or ssdi) and how long he’s been receiving it and how many other paid jobs he’s had and for how long I’d say that it’s unlikely he’d be responsible to pay back his checks for the entire year.... there’s an income cap and I doubt he was earning above it, and even if he was…

Yeah, I’m a vocational specialist working with people with mental health disabilities and LIKE HELL was this a mistake. This shit happens all the time to workers with disabilities, particularly behavioral or developmental disabilities, because as the population with the highest unemployment they are the most grateful…

Yeah joining in the other voices here saying that neither I nor any of the women I know, cos or trans, have a particular driving desire to be protected. If that’s what you want then cool but don’t speak for “most” women.

Awwww I want him to be veep for life but you're absolutely right and now I want nothing more than to know he's happy somewhere bounding a grandchild on his knee.

I dunno, one of his first public statements about the possibility of him running... you could see the grief clearly weighing him down. I don’t know that you can really fake that. I think you’re probably right that it’s not ENTIRELY about grief, he’s a practical and intelligent man and realizes that he wouldn’t win the…

Well, yeah. And in the long run none of it matters. But I remember when I was in high school, the first (and actually only) guy to come out as gay... he had been the least popular kid in school before that. He had no friends and some people actively bullied him, and it had been that way since elementary school. Then…

Oh yeah I agree it comes from a good place. It’s just that good intentions don’t always translate to good things. Not that this is actually bad either way. And yeah, screw the parents getting their knickers in a twist over it.

I just can’t help but think that it’s just as gross to vote for someone because they’re Trans as it is to not because they’re trans. If everyone voted for this girl because she’s trans isn’t that token ism and objectification? Of course it’s equally and probably more likely that they voted for her because they like…

Well because why wouldn’t they? That still doesn’t mean it reflects the paper’s opinion. When I was the editor in chief of my paper, I allowed an op-ed piece to go to print that was very anti-gay. I also included an article I wrote myself stating that the anti-gay piece does not represent the opinion of the paper or…

Fucking bravo. Came here to say this.

Gonna repeat it because it's important; being outvoted is not disenfranchisement. And here's a bonus lesson for you; your ancestors having lived somewhere doesn't make your vote or opinion more important than anyone else's.

Um, being outvoted isn't disenfranchisement. That's straight up crazy talk.