I think what we call addiction is multiple types of issues that present the same way buy don't always have the same cause.

That's several unrelated but narrow definitions you've provided there.

That wouldn't really explain why the vast majority of addicts are completely functional members of society, inasmuch as that dignity is afforded members of their class. Xanax is more popular than heroin these days, after all.

Well, yes. Addiction, as opposed to dependence, is a choice, and usually a quite rational one. The fact that the only real cure is to make someone's life less shitty to the point that it makes less economic sense for them to get high than to engage in it doesn't change the fact that it's a pretty observable and…

I think that most of the folks in my field (myself included) would absolutely apply the word ableism in relation to addiction.

And those, presumably, are the drug addicts worthy of treatment? This is a really shitty distinction you're implying here.

Nope, I wear my red wings with pride. But for me it's just NBD- not an obsession like the dudes in the article. They're still going a bit far.

What question would a young child even have about this? They don't know from sexy. They're not going to jump to that. They just see a lady on a billboard trying to sell pop music to pedophiles.

Born, raised, and registered to vote in Connecticut. I firmly believe and engage in the use of "y'all." It's a necessary goddamn word and I refuse to use "you guys" like some damned New Yorker.

Calling people racist [is] probably one of the worst, most incendiary thing of which a person can be accused of being today..

But it doesn't really help anyone to pretend like the bias isn't racist, just because the word racism hurts some people's feelings.

But... when people say stuff like "I don't find Asian men attractive," I have to wonder, did you really need to communicate that shit to me? It's called an inner life.

Distantly related to current residents =/= indigenous.

Thaaaaaat's not how that works.

And thank god for it.

How, exactly? Same reasons, same outcome...

You dress nicely when you fly so you get waved through security and don't get any lip at your gate if you need to change flights/seats/whatever. These are not concerns with any other mode of transportation (boats? do people still use those?). You dress down all you want, I'm wearing a suit, smiling smugly, and put…

Regular chess, as mentioned above, requires endurance. There's an argument to be made here.

Yeah, it's not like your family are people you can talk to about your feelings just willy-nilly. Keep that shit bottled up inside. I know it's rough and lonely and heartbreaking to divorce your inner life from the people closest to you like that, but don't worry, death will come eventually.

You know what a miscarriage is, right?