Haha my version of this has been to cut out beer, wine, and mixers. Straight liquor for life.

Communication! And selecting partners who listen and are willing to tell you what they need and want as well, and who respect you and your boundaries. That’s really all it is.

Counterpoint: I will not do it to make you feel good. I’m always surprised by women who seem to HATE performing oral sex on men and do it anyway. Like, why? Why are you doing this thing you hate? Why does your partner WANT you to do this thing you hate?

I’m a woman who has dated men and women and am currently in a relationship with a man, and though I’ve dated and had sex with a good number of humans, the only *man* I’ve ever performed oral sex on is my current partner. It’s not just that I’ve never wanted to before, but rather that the idea actually repulsed me…

Oof. Poor kids. This is utterly fucking ridiculous and I’m so ashamed of our legislators.

But the Christians who backed him ARE backward and hateful. That’s their whole thing.

I guess, for a comparison, who is a 60-something female celebrity you consider to be attractive?

I don’t suppose it’s occurred to you that she’s also a non-native speaker of English, and while she does speak it well, she doesn’t speak it as naturally as you or I do (case in point: “made a sin”). English speakers will often use he/she/they/one/you interchangeably in a way that is easy to pick up on but not…

Right? But Danielle Bregoli is famous for being a troubled kid, basically, and that’s the only thing she’s done “wrong” as far as I know. She seems to be pretty on top of what is and isn’t acceptable as far cultural appropriation and racism go, and, frankly, I wouldn’t want to fight her, so I’m okay with her role in…

And that was when I was still on my parents’ extremely good, very comprehensive, Writers Guild insurance.

WHAT IN GOD’S NAME. Even at the gyno when I KNEW I was pregnant they just used the drugstore test and didn’t charge me.

That is UNREAL. It doesn’t make any sense from any reasonable perspective to make pregnancy so expensive. Unless everyone has secretly become members VHEMT, I literally do not understand what we are hoping to accomplish.

It was sarcasm

You’d have a stronger argument if abortion was free and openly available to everyone in this country.

It is kind of insane that there can be OON providers within and in-network institution at all, really.

You’re being a snide dick about your choice while commenting on an article pointing out the ways in which our healthcare system seriously fails pregnant women. No one cares that you don’t see the appeal. You have money for fancy vacations, which means if you DID want kids, you’d have money to raise them and certainly…

As well as Tiblet, I mean.

It IS criminal.

That is GARBAGE. Oh I hate insurance companies so much.

The hospital stay is really what gets you. I was in the hospital for 4 or 5 days following my surgery (and had lots of follow-up appointments with the orthopedic surgeon, as you might imagine). But everything said above - $8 ibuprofens, insanely expensive extras that they don’t tell you are optional - that’s all true.…