I played rugby in high school and once got a wicked black eye after a play went wrong. At the time I felt pretty tough and was really proud of it but I started encountering the same attitudes as you. Nobody believed it was from sports, and strangers (mostly older women) took me aside to whisper things like 'honey, LEAV…

well, when I tripped, banged my face into an open cupboard door, and had a horrible black eye, I was pretty glad to have concealor. It was hard getting pitying/ condescending stares from strangers. I wanted to wear a sign that said, "just clumsy!" It kind of gave me an insight into how we look down on people who…

I love this! I really need her to put out an album :( I'll take a video for this too though.

Having taught teenagers, I would say they often have no idea how to tell the difference between a reputable site and utter nonsense. Obviously some of them do, but it's a skill you learn like any other one. They would turn in work and cite web sites like www.buttsfartsburps.com with no doubt that what it said was…

This gif is awesome but it brings up fears that it's only a matter of time before Sophie Turner is targeted for some bullshit reason. I don't know if she identifies as a feminist but she often talks about how her character is a strong woman while still being on the girly side, and that's OK, there is nothing wrong…

It's tied with this picture I found yesterday, which is also perfection

I'm not one for revenge, but if any of these sons of bitches touch our sweet Emma .... I'm not kidding. We know how to hack back. Not so fun if someone somehow posted alllllllll their personal information. ( rage machine)

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Check yourself, Mark. Octopi are ADORABLE. They're also incredibly intelligent and they will one day be kind rulers once they've enslaved humanity... I mean... uh... YOU SAW NOTHING, HUMAN!

I share and support your outrage

J&SB knew how to deal with these losers all along:

I've been teaching sex Ed for over a decade — the ideas only got crazier as the internet became more pervasive.

I.... Not today, Satan.

Not enough facepalms in the world!

When I remember how stupid and ignorant I was as a teenager, it amazes me that there are teenagers that are even stupider and more ignorant, especially since they now have the internet, and thus absolutely no excuse to believe shit like that.

Oddly, I was also told that Mountain Dew worked in lieu of toothpaste.

Coke? Please. "Everyone knows it's douching with Mountain Dew that keeps you from getting pregnant"

NPR did a story about this not long ago and that was the exact point of the person representing the anti-lock side. I think some Parisians object to the aesthetic of it, but the officials were looking at it from a public safety stance: what if one of those bridges became structurally unsound and people were injured?
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Oh, for crissake. This has nothing to do with sophistication - and everything to do with the structural integrity of old, old bridges. The locks are damaging the structures, and have caused some railings to collapse.

It's vandalism.