I apologize for my knee jerk reaction, jumping to defend the military. It sounds like you went through something awful and I should've realized that you were speaking from that reality.

"The fact of the matter is that our military has an extremely fucked up power structure that has been outright denied for centuries and which can get even nice, intelligent, respectable people into a mindset that they would not otherwise be in."

I really wasn't trying to gas light at all. In fact, most of my post agreed with the things that Highsmith was saying. I only said that while I agree that they tend to be in the minority, that not every member of the military is "trash" or "pigs." I was trying to be gentle and sensitive to her experience...thats…

I'm sorry that you had such an awful experience. And the military in general does tend to attract a certain type of man.

I have a lot of ongoing health problems and I always think THANK GOD that my husband is an Army Officer and therefore we get government paid for military health care. We have had only great experiences with it. In fact, after my husband and I traveled to Sierra Leone and he got malaria, our amazing healthcare saved…

I work (and by work I mean volunteer...i dont get paid) for an orphanage in Sierra Leone, West Africa and one of our kids came to the orphanage at 2 years old weighing 10 lbs. Ontop of being severely malnourished, she had malaria and other infections so she required a lot of one on one care. I was in charge of…

My daughter just turned five. I cant even imagine.

"You people"....? Really? And if by "you people" you mean women then remember that we are half of the population so our own rights are pretty important and something that everyone should be interested in.

(I am anti death penalty in general but I will reply to this as if I am not)

I think that it is great that you have strong personal convictions about abortion. You can go ahead and make decisions in your own personal life that, if you were to ever get pregnant, you wouldn't have one.

I like things to be "tidy" but I don't get passionate about "clean." I want things to be sanitary, yes, and I dust on occasion but I don't get on my hands and knees and scrub floors. I am really anal, though, about things like the bed being made and all of the dishes put away. I like things organized and clutter…

Are we the same person? I am 23 years old teaching Social Studies at a private school that does not have a curriculum (or much of a budget) so I have to write all of my own stuff, too! What state do you live in and what grade levels do you teach? Maybe we could share ideas. I'm in California and I teach 7/8 grade.

When I was in middle school my confirmation leader at church gave us each a hershey's kiss. We all sat in a circle. He had us unwrap the kiss, pass it to the right. Then the next person could smell it. Then pass it again. The next person could lick it/taste it. We passed it again. Then the last person was supposed…

Idk if anyone will care, but just #fyi, "Frats" is seen by many fraternity members as a derogatory term.

#trollpatrol ? "And for the feminists waiting in the wings, fuck you"

Marlene Dietrich! Sophia Loren!

I've needed Plan B twice in my life, both because my normal form of birth control failed. My husband and I are adopting a child from Sierra Leone and getting pregnant can halt the adoption process so we are like, really really careful. I hate Plan B because of the side effects (ughhhh...why am I so sensitive to side…

Rule 14! Rule 14!

Dear Stella McCartney,

Ya basta!