I teach health courses at a university and many of the non-vaccinated students say their parents are forbidding them from getting it. I ask what other adult decisions they make that their parents don’t know about, and how this one is different from those …?

I’m so sorry you’ve had to live through all of these things, and I sincerely appreciate you sharing.

Evangelical “purity” culture just amplifies the bigger cultural message that refusing sex is a failure in a marriage and that solving it just requires having sex more. Anytime my partner or I have struggled with sex it is due to something completely unrelated to our desire for physical intimacy and relates to much…

That’s because you’re not so deep into evangelical Christian culture that you can actually think for yourself.  They teach this shit and since the women don’t know any better, this happens.  

This. A lot of people seem to be forgetting how damned dangerous gymnastics is. It’s not like swimming, where you might lose a bit of time and mess up your turn if you can’t focus. An unfocused gymnast can end up crippled.

I read that she said she doesn’t trust herself as much as she used to and that really hit home. The events of the last 18 months has completely undermined my trust in myself and other people in ways I don’t totally understand but it is a mindfuck. And I’m not flying through the air and landing exceptionally difficult…

An often forgotten fact about the Kerri Strug thing is that she didn’t have to perform her second vault. As it turned out, they would have won anyway without her vault score, but the coaches wanted more of a cushion going into the last event. So they made her take a second vault and it ended her career.

It’s incredibly disheartening to find out the many ways in which our quests for entertainment, to distract from our lives, is so entwined with the abuse and objectification of others.

Perfectionist culture is white supremacist culture. The idea that someone must make no mistakes / never prioritize their health in order to be the “greatest” is a toxic belief we must eliminate.

good points here. I honestly skimmed the self-reflection part because I didn’t really care about someone’s take on the parent of the kid they babysat - someone you interact with for 10 hot seconds in a very specific context.

I find it hilarious that Jamie Lynn Spears would hide under the guise of being a “christian” when she herself is “anti-christian”. She says she has not benefitted from her sister’s fame considering the only reason she isn’t working at a Hobby Lobby is because of Britney. She owes her whole life to her sister.

Britney is either: mentally ill. In which case her sister’s ‘perfectly shady’ postales he a garbage person.

Something about True Crime makes me uncomfortable. I can watch SVU or Criminal Mind reruns no problem, but an article about a Real Gruesome Murder? No, thank you.

The fundamental problem with making anything into entertainment is that you risk trivializing the subject matter, or otherwise massaging the narrative to make it more entertaining (or simply to make it entertaining in the first place.) The flip-side is that if you don’t make it entertaining, whatever story is being…

Don’t go after people going through a traumatic experience. What the fuck is the matter with you?

Kitchenette goes, Pissing Contest goes, but Dirt Bag is apparently not going anywhere.

Thank you for this. I’m in consistently unimpressed with just how tasteless and awful Dirt bag posts can be, especially on such matters. This shit is especially awful.

I understand that this is dirtbag, so the flippant tone is expected, but it seems oddly callous and weird to me that you’re treating a situation involving alleged guardianship abuse as a sibling rivalry. If Britney Spears’ testimony is anything to go by, she holds her entire family responsible for the abuse she has…

I seriously don’t get how SO many people were involved in covering up for and defending this guy. Do they think this shit just...goes away? That people who compulsively molest kids and get away with it time and time again eventually decide to stop if you remove any possible consequences and keep giving them…

I don’t know why I even come here anymore.