Yup, I think it is, too. And so I made fairly minor alterations, since it hasn't been mainpaged yet.

What a hateful bastard. Seriously, unless you fear for your safety, it's really the polite thing to do to sit out a date even if you're not attracted to/interested in the other person once you meet them. Ugh, I hate people, but I'm glad your BFF & his wife seem like good folks.

I work at a store that has vintage theater chairs bolted together in rows randomly dispersed around the store. They are bolted to each other, but not to the floor, so if ANYONE leans over to tie a shoe or pick up something off the ground, the whole row of chairs will tip forward. I weigh a buck twenty and they do it…

As a fat person as well (though, sadly, much much fatter than you) I understand humiliation only too well. I feel it every time I leave the house and walk among the normies. Once, I went on a date with this guy that I'd met online. I sent him several photos of myself (so that he'd know what he was getting himself…

OH GOD. You just reminded me that one time in Amsterdam my friend made me ride on the back of her ancient rickety bike and the rear wheel folded like a taco. I TOLD HER IT WAS A BAD IDEA.

Also a fat person here. Since age 9. My moment was on my birthday, when drinking way too much good draft beer because I worked in the bar...and people were buying me beer so fast that if I put the glass down...there was another one there! Like...magic! I was sitting on an odd shaped metal bar chair...and it kind…

Apparently the girls sign up to be in the draft, and then they have to go with whoever asks them. That's why I want to know about the money — if they have a reason to sign up (to support St. Jude's or similar) then this is just a silly charity fundraiser. We had a "BMOC auction" my senior year to fundraise for prom,…

It's amazing how many people only give a shit about injustices against women in less-developed countries when injustices against women in the countries they live in are being discussed.

You're really selling the joys of pregnancy...

This is a really important discussion to have—-especially in the medical community. In medical school, we are taught about "Disorders of Sex Development". Because you are right, there are other things that can come with some of these things developmental differences (CAH and hypertension, people with XO, or Turner's…

It's a real baby, you know, it's not some disposable somethin'

the way i usually explain it (i'm posting this as a question — as in, correct me if you see it differently) is that we have 4 continua to consider (that are often conflated or confused by the heteronormative community): biological sex (female-intersex-male); gender identity ("chosen" for lack of a better word - male,…

While black yes. It's illegal to be black actually.

I remember first really learning about this in college (I had heard about it before). I learned about it in a class on Native American Literature (that's what it was called) and apparently, intersexed children, rare as they were, were recognized and totally honored. They were thought to make great shamans, to have…

We're talking about actual people who have to live their actual lives in this world we inhabit together. Damn right we should include them. The consequences of not doing so can be incredibly detrimental on an intersex person's quality of life, and to not account for them is to effectively punish them for an aspect of…

That's ridiculous. Just because a certain group of people happen to be a small minority of the population doesn't mean that their experiences can't influence our ideas and preconceptions of "normality". You don't get to decide that the human race is rigidly defined only by the characteristics of the majority and…

Uh. Try 1 in 50. Not exactly small numbers, if you take the broadest definition.

Ultrasounds indicated that I would be female and this was repeatedly tested and believed to be the case until the moment I was born. My biological mother had many miscarriages before I was the fetus that survived. I have very feminine characteristics juxtaposed with some masculine ones and can visually "pass" as…

A decent number feel like this, but literally any mention of bisexuality and anything that can be taken as a mention of bisexuality gets a response like this. We run long on biphobic bigots around here. And I think there's a certain amount of "ugh, not again already. I can't even right now" among the bisexuals and…