I have zero trust that men would take this medication correctly so I wouldn’t bet my reproductive freedom on it.   They’d have to create an IUD version for dudes.  At the same time I’m all for sharing the fun side effects of hormonal BCs with the male population. Male contraceptives seem odd to me given how easy…

I would say the only way you should ever trust a guy with this is if he’s your spouse and you both know for sure that you don’t want kids right now but may want them in the future. And by know for sure I mean you’ve gone through the stress of child rearing and he now is much more cognizant of the benefits of family…

I’ll be honest, if I was a woman I would still insist on a condom and my own birth control even if this was on the market. I have a very low opinion of my gender’s emotional investment in taking responsibility for unwanted pregnancies.

I understand. I just didn’t feel it was preaching, I guess to me if someone religious tell me to be kind...even if it’s like, “Hey god bless have a nice day, be kind, Jesus loves you!”....that’s not rude or hateful, it’s just how they live their life, so who really cares.

Stop.

I’m a huge grammar nerd but this is unnecessary. In this case it’s more important to listen to what he has in his heart than to make classist comments about how he got his message across. It’s a screenshot of the Notes app, posted to Instagram. He’s not submitting a statement to Congress.

Yes. Missing that education can follow a person around for life, especially if they’re in the public eye and have no opportunity to get grounded in the basics once they’re older--the whole “you don’t KNOW THAT?” scorn would be magnified exponentially.

He seems to have at least a little more awareness than Lohan did at age 25 (or at 33 for that matter), but time will tell if he has enough of it to escape her fate.

His writing is pretty awful. Ariana Grande seems to be barely literate too. Is this the result of them not going to school because they were working child stars?

I mean...I never cared for him/his music,and then when he started doing all the weird stuff/acting a fool,I really didn’t care for him or get his appeal. But,I am willing to give him credit,if this is legit,for owning up to his past mistakes,and learning from them (which is pretty important),and moving on from them.

See I still don’t care for the Biebs, his aesthetic and whatnot, but that doesn’t really matter. This is extremely respectable and very, very sharp of him. Kudos to his mental health team.

I never cared for him, but after reading that I think he’s a pretty cool guy. Good luck Justin.

No, not at all. If the incident happened exactly as reported, it’s hard to see it in any other light. I was speaking to a broader point, that for companies with an image to protect, it’s not enough to not have any racist incidents between customers and staff, they need to avoid anything that looks like racism. You…

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This just support dog - not emotional support dog. Dogs are trained to support people for a wide variety of reasons. For instance, they can detect the early onset of neurological seizures early enough for those suffering to take medication to offset the worst effects.

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EMOTIONAL SUPPORT ANIMALS ARE NOT SERVICE ANIMALS AND ARE NOT PROTECTED BY THE ADA.

That is awful, my Ham friend. If you don’t mind me asking, what state do you work in that has such ridiculous rules? One of the main things I enjoyed about my former employer is that they mandated wellness days and required at least a once-yearly check in with one’s personal therapist. Data they collected just within…

I used to work with adults with developmental disabilities, but one woman had schizophrenia and more than 20 years after being in a psychiatric facility she STILL would talk about not wanting to go back. She was doing so well, but she’d be like “yep, I gotta keep XYZ up cuz I don’t want to go back to the hospital!”…

Yup, the stigma was what I was going for. It’s almost as if what people need most is empathy and a quick response to one’s actual needs (re: empathy), as opposed to someone checking off boxes on an insurance form without ever raising one’s eyes long enough to look at and take in the person in need.