I like to think that Camila Alves had just farted in that picture.

I would buy a magazine about women who do something with their lives other than work at a fashion magazine. I'm a grad student and, not going to lie, I was all "ooh, what could I wear to TA in?" because I also wear and buy clothes despite not living in an episode of SATC.

I would buy so many of those for my hypothetical children!

There are a handful of them throughout the country, but not many! I worked with an organization that operates several in my area, and they've also expanded to include adult education classes, early childhood programs, and after-school tech programs for teenagers. They are awesome for the kids and the community.

I just sneezed! Psychosomatic sneezing just happened!

"You have full control over your own bodies but seem to conveniently forget all that control you have when it suits your desires (ie, when you want a child, can't afford it, and don't want the guy who fathered it around.)"

I really wish we took school funding more seriously. Having a nurse is helpful, but school-based health centers, where there's a full service on-site doctor's office, do amazing things for academic and health outcomes for students. They even save money in the long term, since these kids are getting care before they…

This is a really great argument for why men should advocate more for their own reproductive rights, which really doesn't happen very often. I can understand not wanting to be at the mercy of someone's ability to take a pill, though if you're in a relationship with sough to think they "forget" birth control because…

Obviously he is stationed outside the abortionplex.

That would be a mistake, because it saves valuable seconds otherwise spent wondering whether this is human who occupies the same reality that I do. The commitment to wife-beaters in public signals maximal levels of douche, enabling the threatened populace to prepare by crossing the street or egging him or something.

Go read Never Let Me Go! Right now!

I feel your pain as literally as possible right now. Blargh.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Yeah, I am no good at the hook-up. I tried it a couple of months ago, because I was all, "Yeah! I need to get laid!" but it was the worst sex ever, and the dude thought it meant something, and then I felt mean and did not even get decent foreplay out of it.

But is the idea that we're cool with 6-7 hours, or that we should be sleeping in 4-hour chunks? The latter sounds a lot like serial napping, of which I am in favor.

It is actually sitting on my bookshelf, because my teenaged cousin recommended it and sent it with me when I moved! I really need to get around to reading it.

I think this is an alternate universe Katniss, where she wins and is subjected to increasingly extreme cosmetic surgeries in the capitol. For example, arm and leg extension procedures, eyesocket expansion, internal organ relocation surgery, etc.

You know, it would be interesting to try releasing something cool and appealing to broad audiences without merchandising the shit out of it. But I know I'm living in a dream world, and 12-year-old me would probably have eaten that shit up, so.

Aw, that's really tough. I'm sorry you're going through romantic stress; it's like nothing else!

I understand! All I can say is that from what I can tell, you're being a total normal about everything, but you're overthinking it because that is just what we often do in these situations!