Respect.

I was a high school freshman in 2006 and we had them several times a year, every year. I grew up in rural Wyoming. There is virtually no violent crime in my home county; there hasn’t been a murder since the seventies.

Present and accounted for!

Tell me more about this magical place.

Your parenting game is on FLEEK

Seconded.

“Weed helps.”

My favorite part of that is that in the original language, God used the same word “helpmate” for women that God used to describe Themselves, so if that means women must be subservient to men, God has a big problem. Somehow I think there was just a pesky translation error. However could that have happened?

I’m a Universalist, so the only problem I have with your argument is that God didn’t create religion, people did.

Oh, they are, though. Notice the Duggars? The Quiverfulls are literally trying to out-breed the rest of us, to birth and indoctrinate the most possible people for the culture wars. It’s horrifying.

So he’s like a Missing Step, but with racist vitriol instead of sexual misconduct. So far as we know, anyway ...

I mean, probably for some people, but it really, really, shouldn’t be ... SO MANY INFECTIONS

I once answered the door to the pizza delivery guy wearing an overlarge t-shirt and underwear and my boyfriend wisely chose not to address my choice of personal exposure beyond a single morose look. That’s the guy you want, friends. Not a terrifying weirdo who 1) uses sex as punishment or 2) thinks it is his role or…

Ditto

Oh my god - I just remembered these annotated Bibles my youth group used when I was a teenager! They had these weird half/page “life lesson” things wherein some spiritless, limp white kids struggle with a non-issue kind of issue - like listening to rock music from an atheist band - and then the story is tied into…

Oh my god - I just remembered these annotated Bibles my youth group used when I was a teenager! They had these weird half/page “life lesson” things wherein some spiritless, limp white kids struggle with a non-issue kind of issue - like listening to rock music from an atheist band - and then the story is tied into some…

Oh my god - I just remembered these annotated Bibles my youth group used when I was a teenager! They had these weird half/page “life lesson” things wherein some spiritless, limp white kids struggle with a non-issue kind of issue - like listening to rock music from an atheist band - and then the story is tied into some…

I want to say “Tenderness” for $1000?

And the Witch of Blackbird Pond?

Tamora Pierce. What sex there was was no explicitly described, but there were makeout scenes here and there and the combination was enough to get *cough cough* some of us going. I started reading those when I was eleven, I believe.