It would be wonderful to have that kind of flexibility. I can do that for my side gig as a photographer, but for my main vocation I'm not in a position to be picky, unfortunately. The joys of being a recent grad.

While I do agree that it's your responsibility to ask if information isn't offered, choosing not to offer that information, and then going ahead with a sexual relationship knowing that you're putting another person at risk, is just wrong. It just is.

I would star this a million times if I could.

It's absolutely the responsibility of both people. But in the instance where a person doesn't ask, the information should be offered. Someone with HIV or another STD is willfully putting someone at risk without their informed consent if they don't divulge that information. That's criminal.

Wow. This story is terrifying, honestly. That you had to jump through so many hoops just to get a freaking pap smear is criminal.

I completely disagree. In the interest of informed consent, people should be obligated to tell sexual partners if they have an STI. I would feel extremely betrayed if I trusted someone enough to have sex with them, only to find out they willfully kept that information from me.

I'm always afraid of stepping outside of bounds. I wonder if (most) men are unencumbered by these concerns. I also wonder if this is something I'm programmed to feel by society, or if I'm just naturally an introverted person.

I have the same strategy, which thankfully worked for me (albeit after a few patronizing stops along the way). I ended up buying my car from a young male agent who actually went out of his way to make a car fit my needs. He even did some fancy editing on my existing car's specs so I would get more money from the buy…

I followed this back to a ThinkProgress article on the same study, which then sent me through the interwebs to this article from the Globe and Mail. It's worth a read.

I'm curious if the flipside of this is that women are more likely to stick to a budget and their wants list, and therefore sellers deceive them more because they know they can't sell women on something that isn't perfect.

Michael Johns :( I loved that guy.

Stunning.

See, this is what I think we get right in Canada. When an MP tried to bring up the abortion debate, not only did the House soundly shut him down, but so did all of the media outlets and the majority of social media as well. People weren't having it, because the debate is over. We don't pretend that every opinion is…

What a nice guy. I can't imagine why she let him go.

Lol, I feel like it's really just a great metaphor for life.

I'm willing to accept a purely political shift on the part of Republications, because in the end, it's about people having the rights and freedoms they deserve. Far as I'm concerned, the right doesn't have to like it, but they have to accept it and stop fighting against it.

Lol, unfortunately not in my immediate vicinity :P

Lol, it does. Whenever someone reads it in person they ask me what it says and/or what it's supposed to mean. I didn't think it was that complicated when I got it :/

I might do that for the next family reunion, just for shits and giggles.

I so wish I had a picture of this, but I don't.