This was exactly me. I was on BC at 16, had a very sex positive mom, and waited until I was 20 to have sex. In the meantime I educated all my friend about being safe and carried condoms in my backpack for them to use.

I'm confused by this whole "started sleeping together" bit. Until recent history, throughout our evolution and around the world humans slept together. This desire for individual beds from early childhood is a relatively new, western phenomenon. Not that wanting separate beds is wrong, but this idea that we started…

When I was 14 I had a serious thing for a 21 year old family friend, and threw myself at him mercilessly, providing backrubs and walking around as scantily clad as I dared in hopes that he, but none of my family members, would notice. While, I think he was flattered, he stayed very firmly at an appropriate distance…

I used to feel that way to, and then I carried a very wanted child. Pregnancy is HARD and comes with serious health risks for the mother. Regardless of the unfairness of the situation one simply cannot demand that a woman go through with a pregnancy that, for whatever reason, she has decided to terminate. It isn't…

I can tell I'm an old, because my first response was "his knees!"

Every one has me tearing up. Seriously. It is so right that this is mainstream.

Look, I don't know from drugs and would never have thought that this was a heroin response. Does that make me fucking nuts? Or maybe just a bit sheltered and naive?

Well, who knows. Either way she one gazillion percent wasn't asking for it but she might have been flirting. When I volunteered in seniors' residences many of the residents were incorrigible flirts. It was wonderful actually.

I hear you, but what the nursing home did was SO FAR beyond calling her a flirt and victim blaming. That's just a small fraction of what they did and to focus on it kind of trivializes the terribleness of their actions.

I came here all ready to say that, while nobody should be raped for flirting, 89 year old women are still totally able to be flirts, and heap scorn for the headline. Then I read the piece. This is just so many kinds of horrible.

That's my biggest problem with all this - Goldieblox kinda suck. Which makes me really sad, I love the concept, the company and the marketing. Now if only the product was good.

I don't think women getting out of the house is a primary objective of the UAE government.

That's my reading too. This isn't random. The people who have lifestyle habits and/or genetics that result in their children being obese at 5 are probably the same people who have obese teenagers.

I LOVED it, fully not expecting to, just reading it because it was there to read. It's total YA, but the kind of book that all the YAs should go read. I picked it up as a good bus book and got wrapped up in it, neglecting family and homework until it was done.

Most people would say "if it is illegal to rape your wife it should be illegal to rape your husband too." (It is.) The fact that you switch it around... kinda creepy. Kinda rapey actually.

I don't think anyone is saying that. It is an interesting question though - how and when is it possible to separate and artist and their art? Also, when does a crime committed in the past stop defining a person? I am not saying that what Woody Allen did is not horrible, and that it shouldn't be remembered, nor is the…

From my understanding polygamy actually contributes to the disenfranchisement by commodifying women (there are not enough women for men all men to have equal partners, which creates this demand for wives, which pushes down age of consent and so on...) and leaving younger, poorer men unable to find partners. There are…

I am so exactly with you on this. I would really like to be fine with it, and intellectually I get it - but yeah. Not for my kid for now.

I don't think that they could possibly have gotten a bigger audience than they have right now. Had the government ignored this a bit there's no way I (or most other North Americans) would know or care about it.

The thing is, they weren't actually on the Altar (which is a sacred space) but in front of it. And churches aren't quite private property... at least not in the Orthodox perspective and especially not in Russia. I'm Russian Orthodox, and the protest was really only mildly offensive, religiously speaking. In the rest…