These discussions are always so focused on ourselves. Pregnancy by definition involves multiple people (a partner in reproduction who also consents to becoming a parent, a future child). Creating a whole new human being shouldn’t be a matter of “whoops”, and there’s no reason to be nostalgic about a time when it more…

We should be very worried about drug resistance. Gonorrhea is rapidly acquiring it, and there are people that predict in another decade it’s going to require a hospital stay for IV antibiotics.

I know educated people think we’re past the stage of thinking a handshake will transmit HIV, but people are still fucking morons. A girl in my CNA certification course proudly and repeatedly announced that she would NEVER feed or assist a person with HIV no matter how many times we explained how transmission of the…

I’m scared.

My husband and I live in separate states 75% of the time. I rejoice to know that he’s not just sitting at home alone. I don’t care who he’s with as long as they’re not committing any felonies.

He in no way said that guns were an “urban” problem. He said that the desires of his constituents in a mostly rural state made his stances on gun policy different than the stances of people like O’Malley and Clinton.

It sounds like they’re being offered either. I assume other options are presented as well, but those aren’t things it’s effective to give people too far prior to release.

I get really frustrated with this line of thinking because it reeks of the idea that we need to create more women for the sake of the men (in order to stabilize their society). In principle I don’t think we should create people for anyone but themselves, and inevitably “solutions” to these issues involve coercing…

We went for a slight modification on Southern traditions. My maiden name is now my middle name AND is also his middle name now as well. It is our intention to repeat that in our children, who will have the choice to eliminate either name if they marry.

I’ve known a lot of people who waited who say that they feel like they’ve had very open discussions with partners before the marriage about things like sexual preferences, but...

AGH. Patients do this all the time! Relatively basic or cautionary treatments that may have lifestlye but NO survival benefits or physicians removing benign lesions are often credited with “saving” their lives. The reality is that most of them have no idea what “incidentaloma” or “benign” means, and their physician…

I just don’t understand why it’s so hard to not eat fish. When I realized what was happening to the tuna populations I stopped cold turkey. Sure it tasted great, but the future of my children and all of the other people in the world is a higher priority. Yet people act like that’s not even an option for them. Life is…

That damn website leaves little business cards in all the women’s bathroom stalls at my university.

Replacing it when its battery dies? That kind of wastefulness is specifically why I STOPPED using pads and tampons.

Thank you for the correction! I’ll have to read up on that distinction some more!

Depending on the blind person you speak to, they don’t necessarily consider themselves disabled. Although less militant than the deaf community, they do often have the sense that they’re more “differently abled” than “disabled”.

I agree with you about the state of your body. You are more functional and complete as a person in the body that you always knew you should have had.

It’s complicated. Is treating gender dysmorphia with SRS perpetuating/realizing a patient’s delusion? Or does the patient have the right to request whatever changes they want to their bodies, particularly when those changes are requested repeatedly over the course of many years and at at the cost of great…

It’s interesting to me that no one in these threads got curious and did any reading on this. Medicating these people just doesn’t seem to do anything for them. It’s funny how body dysmorphia like this has people suggesting she needs medications when sufferers of BIID seem to be effectively cured by just having their…

Eh... I have mixed feelings on this.