I work in a medical school/teaching hospital and just saw a lecture on this topic. It dealt with reconstructive surgery for people who were born intersex and assigned what turned out to be the wrong gender. Interestingly, it listed the age that the subjects first began to experience gender dysphoria, and in every case…

I give the ACT, and kids will ask me for answers IN THE ACT. Everything from "I don't understand this question" to "What's the formula for [some math problem] again?" to "What does this word mean?" They also regularly do not bring pencils, the admission ticket they're specifically told to bring, or the ID that they…

It's weird how many people are obsessed with the idea that if sexualities/gender roles/lifestyles other than the traditional monogamous man-woman nuclear-family model are allowed to exist, it will supposedly result in the end of ALL heterosexuality, monogamy and family units. (Although naturally, the people who are…

Yeah, that's how I interpret it too. Although the misinterpretation you refer to might be the reason why we get so many roles like Kristin Stewart's Snow White, where the character literally has no personality, but she uses a sword and rides into battle, so the filmmakers assume they've created a Strong Character. I…

I'm afraid I can't take assessments on my womanity from someone who writes "adieu" instead of "ado."

It's been awhile for me too, but I'm pretty sure he kills Duke the policeman's wife, whose name I can't remember just now - she finds Duke's file on all the bad stuff Big Jim has been doing, and I want to say she pulls a Ned Stark and TELLS him she has this stuff, and he breaks her neck. And he beats the preacher to…

It's been awhile for me too, but I'm pretty sure he kills Duke the policeman's wife, whose name I can't remember just now - she finds Duke's file on all the bad stuff Big Jim has been doing, and I want to say she pulls a Ned Stark and TELLS him she has this stuff, and he breaks her neck. And he beats the preacher to…

Any kind of birth control is equivalent to baby-murder to these people. Soon the mere act of existing while not-pregnant will be baby murder, because every second you're hogging your womb all to yourself deprives a precious angel of its chance to live.

I agree; I'd say it's a horror story in a sci-fi setting, if we're allowed to get that specific.

Ahh! My mom teaches at the private university I went to (which is how we were able to afford it, reduced tuition as part of her compensation), and they had a mom do that too! I think the girl was an athlete. I don't know if the mom lived with her, but she totally tagged along to classes. None of the classes were my…

ME TOO. And if I ever find those ponies on Ebay I will buy them with no shame.

Ideally, this would be good, but remember all the stories about charter schools skewing results and doctoring grades so that their rich students stay in the top 10 percent, or whatever. I went to a private university and it was a similar deal, tons of students got As and Bs for what was nowhere near A/B work. But they…

"People judge ME because I have tattoos, so I'm discriminated against too!"

As a former wedding videographer:

My (evangelical) father seriously had problems with the Smurfs because 1) he thought Smurfette living with all those males was perverted* and 2) he thought it promoted witchcraft, I guess because Gargamel was a wizard (right?).

Well, it's kind of an ongoing plot point in Stephen King's Cell that the "pulse" is not a one-time thing, so it didn't just affect the 8% of the population on their phones at one specific time. It also affected everyone who picked up a phone from then on out. So anyone who tried to call 911 when they saw a crazy guy…

I used to be a horseback riding instructor at a summer camp, and one year the boys' cabin counselor failed to notice that this kid had not changed out of his swimsuit in days. The kid went to the showers with everyone else and everything, but apparently he just showered with the swimsuit on and then wore the trunks as…

I've tried to lavish my cats with things, but they mostly just want to play with empty boxes and trash. I did get a rattly stuffed fish that dangles from a fishing pole that my kitten LOVED, but then he chewed the stretchy string apart the first night he had it. Cat houses and wind-up toys and catnip-filled stuff has…

Except Oprah specifically says that she WAS dressed up "in full Oprah Winfrey gear" and wearing Donna Karan.

MENZ ARE PROFICIENT AT ALL THINGS ATHLETIC ESPECIALLY IN WATER. CAVEMEN KILLED FISH WITH THEIR BARE HANDS.