Or they don't let you into the party and laugh at how gross you look compared to all the "hot" girls. Or even if you were let in, it would be as a joke, and the "hot" girls would all make fun of you to the boys, and you'd have nobody to talk to. It's FUN not to comply with the hot-girl dress code when it's made…

I wish all the comments to this article consisted entirely of folks wondering what makes the difference between a young man like your son, the young man he had to fight, and the young men who chose the by-stander route. How do we recruit the by-standers to your son's side? How do we get to a point where the…

No, you're being perfectly articulate. Why do people feel the need to turn the attention onto the women in these scenarios, instead of onto the men who engaged in such boorish, abusive behavior? Hell, maybe the opportunity for this kind of bullshit would be reduced if the majority of women felt safe walking back to…

Oh it was pretty much immediate—one of the first two or three comments I think. Because we are always the ones who "should know better"!

I would agree with this assessment. This type of person is laser-focused on the "in-group." They tend to demand secret-keeping, "loyalty," and "having my back." They are good at representing their own positions as the group's positions, and using that "loyalty" and "in" status to keep the group backing them up. …

This is correct. Plus, every fertility doctor in the state and RESOLVE, the National infertility organization, said personhood laws would effectively shut down most types of fertility treatments, especially IVF.

I'm with you. Nobody who would cut PBS, citing excessive debt to China, but would also increase defense spending to 4% of GDP is NOT a fiscal conservative, and should be laughed out of town/the election.

I know. It REALLY hurt my feelings when I found out.

WORD. My body either belongs to me or it does not. I deeply fear a legal system that says I don't get to make decisions about what my own body is used for. I neither understand nor sympathize with anyone who thinks my decisions about my own body should be taken away from me, or who think that a mass entirely…

I don't believe for one second that you don't have your mind made up. Maybe you're not certain when you personally believe a fetus becomes a person (a matter of personal philosophy or perhaps religion, but NOT an appropriate matter for the legal system), but that's not the topic you raised. All I see you doing all…

Pregnancy uses the woman's entire body for nine months. The fetus eats your food, and then you pee and shit out its waste. If you don't take in sufficient calcium, it will take what it needs from your bones and teeth. If you don't take in sufficient iron for both, it will make you anemic. It can cause gestational…

*takes your hand* *significant, solemn eye contact* *silent prayer*

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It's my experience, as a recovered Southern Baptist, that "prayer requests" are typically an excuse for a conversation along the lines of, "You would not BELIEVE this one slut I know...*details details details* She REALLY needs our prayers."

Thank you for this! I was told by an anti-choice zealot last year that I should be "grateful" my mother didn't "cut me up and throw me away in a bag of medical waste." I am grateful to be a wanted child. I am grateful that my mother had access to family planning, and was able to have me at the time of HER choosing.…

THIS. I don't care when anybody *believes* that a fetus is a "person" in a philosophical or religious sense. I care a whole damn lot when they try to LEGALLY DEFINE a fetus as a person. That's a whole other ballgame, and one in which women lose big, because we lose the rights to control our own bodies. Either I…

If I get wasted, drive my car, and wreck it into another car, causing the other driver to go into kidney failure, I am NOT obligated to donate one of my kidneys to save the other driver's life. I am not obligated to donate any of my blood to them to save their life. If I die in the wreck, but have not signed an…

There has been a "religious institution" exception from the beginning, but it only applies to actual churches. The issue arose when religious hospitals and schools said "Hey, we are religious institutions!" And the administration was like "Nope, not a church, and you employ a shitload of people who do not subscribe…

I am the child of a person who died of suicide. It was awful and terrible, and of course I was angry while I was grieving, but I have nothing but love and empathy for a man whose mind was so toxic and who felt so alone that he believed we would be better off without him. Of course he was wrong, and we all wanted him…

You've been pretty righteously outraged around these parts lately. I'm just here to say I here you, I feel you, and I hope this is your venting place, and you're not carrying it around with you in your real life.