About two years ago, I was working as a temp with no health insurance. I fell off my bike and broke my nose. My choices were go to the hospital and quit school to spend the next several years paying off medical bills, or let it heal on its own. I now have a lovely crook in my nose.

Yes! Or any of the abortion funds mentioned in another comment. My favorite is the National Network of Abortion Funds (http://www.fundabortionnow.org/) - they sent me a handwritten thank you note for my last donation, and I will definitely donate again before the end of the year. Help a woman in need, and get a tax…

Bahaha. You had me at pet-sitting.

In college I liked it to. It meant the self-induced eating disorder was working, and even if I looked in the mirror and hated myself, someone, somewhere found me attractive.

Ohh DC area metro-riding men. Prepare to be sneakily photographed. Your comeuppance is coming!

I used "the church" as a broad term to include any sort of religion, really. Because religions tend to oppress women.

Still missing the point. Have a nice day.

Yes and no ... as a Vandy alum, I'm glad we are doing something, and I'm hopeful that this was proactive, and not just a 'well, they got caught, so we'll look like REAL assholes if we don't do something now' kind of thing. But there's so much more the school could be doing...

Why can no discussion of the systematic oppression of women take place without the obligatory 'but what about teh menz!??' Yes, that is something we understand now, and yes, it is something that happens, but it shouldn't be used as a decoy to take away from what women have dealt with and continue to deal with.

"But it's hypocritical to ONLY look at the patriarchal side of society without looking at the matriarchal side of society as well."

Ok, well you've contradicted yourself. You said it's not generational, and then blamed women's mothers for not encouraging them to get 'typically male' jobs.

Re-examine that minority you're talking about. How many of them grew up in the church? I'm guessing since you're divorced you're a bit older than me (I'm 29) so it's likely these women were either raised in an era where women couldn't get ahead in the workplace/were shunned for working, or were raised by mothers who…

I was at a concert once and some guy comes over, chats with me for a minute, and then proceeds to pick me up. Angry feminist me wanted to elbow him in the face. 19 year old me held on for dear life because HOLYFUCKPUTMEDOWNYOUASSHOLEIDONTWANTTODIE. Ugh. Thank god for those 25 lbs I've put on since college - it's…

So I was dead broke poor for a couple years following college, and too proud to ask my parents for help. And even then, when I was buying 5 packs of ramen noodles for $1 so I could eat for a week, I didn't "long to have a man around who would pay the bills and take care of [me]." I wanted to do it myself on my own…

"the plural of anecdote is data" = pure brilliance.

...men can also go to Planned Parenthood for STD tests, cancer screenings, condoms, vasectomies, infertility screening, UTI testing/treatment...

Ah. Well. Since the population of Sierra Leone is only about 6 million, compared to our 600 million, I'll just assume then that you'd rather go have a child there than in the US? Smaller sample size and all, so fewer women dying, right?

Sure, it does work. But that needs to be taught in conjunction with actual sex education. Because no matter how much the religious right likes to ignore reality - not all teenagers/people are going to refrain from sex until they're married. Those who don't deserve actual information about what can prevent pregnancy.

All of these studies just seem to be one big case of "no fucking duh." When you give women access to birth control, they have fewer unintended pregnancies. When you restrict access... lo and behold, MORE unintended pregnancies! So why do we still let the GOP/religious right get away with this 'religious…

You mean blastocyst?