I sort of have healthy anxiety. I say sort of because it used to be bad, but I have sort of grown out of it to an extent and it doesn’t happen as much anymore. It’s no fun. :(

This is pretty consistent with national numbers. I think it was updated recently, but somewhere around 20% of women in college or something like that. Not to downplay this, but I think this is another situation where this isn’t a new alarming trend. It’s always been like this. The question is why the other schools had…

I know it’s with good intentions, but one of the things that you talk about when training to handle people disclosing assaults to you is that the best thing is to not talk the person’s power away. Meaning, letting them make their own choices, despite how you want them to handle it. Encouraging someone to talk to an…

OK, but if a person wants to have multiple children, it’s not just about what age you are when the first baby comes. She’s 31. It may not happen immediately, then there’s pregnancy, then most likely waiting a couple of years, then trying to have another kid, then pregnancy, etc. Time continues passing. Not everyone…

Yeah, I think one of the issues with calling it tacky is that it’s not. So, it was clearly just a cover for whatever his real reason was. The reason reason was probably along the lines of assuming she’d regret it and then come back whining, or that he feels like he’d lose street cred by that sort of tattoo on a woman.…

Yeah, I’m interested in getting my first tattoo, but in reading the slew of articles that all have the basic premise of “100 things not to do or your tattoo artist will hate you,” I’ve been putting it off because I expect it to be a bad experience. All the places I would want a tattoo are described as being painful…

Yeah, but this is one end of the spectrum where the other end houses people who won’t bake cakes for gay couples. You could say “why would you want a homophobe to bake your cake?” but in the end, a person might want to go to this business because of price, proximity, not this guy — but artistic skill, etc. Or like…

Given the conditions of working around young girls? How many years does it take to become a pedophile? Better set a time limit on how long a man can be a teacher or coach. Or how long they can interact with nieces or nephews.

But a calculated risk implies that you’re weighing the benefits with the possible risk. Calculated risks are more like the fact that you have to get to work, so you get in a car and risk getting into an accident. When it comes to children playing, I think that an ATV is not a calculated risk. It doesn’t just have to…

It can still work even if every single person can’t do it. It’s more of a critical mass sort of thing.

I remember looking at a package of sign-sized poster board and being like, nah, I’ll just get the big one and cut it in two. I’m wishing I’d gotten the pack of 10.

Because gerrymandering isn’t a thing.

Eh, I voted for him, but switched over near the end of the primaries. Once I was on the receiving end of the smugness and stuff, I got to the point where I regretted voting for him. I definitely liked him better when he was the candidate who was taking the high road and I wasn’t feeling like it was a choice between…

Making speeches in congress, going to protests, going to rallies, grilling nominees. I guess I’m not really sure what else a Congress member can “do,” though because speaking is basically their main job. It’s not like he can forcibly remove Trump from the oval office.

I think we need all the help we can get. If Bernie can convince people watching that the ACA is a good thing and it gains support, then more power to him.

I think it’s hard to call someone a bad candidate when so few people actually vote. I assume part of the argument is that someone running against Trump should have gotten more votes than she did, but we also just have a really lazy electorate.

I had a friend who was Bernie (so was I) and then Jill (I was not), and at the last minute, she decided to vote for Hillary because our state was a swing state and a lot closer than she expected. She said that if Trump won and she hadn’t voted for Hillary, she’d feel kind of guilty (and people would give her a hard…

I think anybody who cares more about an inconvenient airport visit than the lives of immigrants and refugees was probably never going to be a friend to the cause anyway.

Most people I’ve heard are either saying it tongue-in-cheek. Or if not, they aren’t saying GWB is amazing, but that he’s not as bad as Trump (which still leave room for some crappy behavior). I don’t think anyone is actually forgetting his policies. I’d love to have a Democrat in office, but if had the opportunity to…

I feel a little icky about the comparison of an “odd sexual fetish” (plus blackmail from a country that’s unfriendly to the U.S.) to the fight for equal rights for LGBTQ people. The slogans you mentioned are mostly used in reference to legal rights to marriage and anti-discrimination, and not so much about sexual…