"Marriage was not instituted by government. It was instituted by God. There is no reason for Oklahoma or any state to be involved in marriage."

On the bright side, the "religious liberty" bill that would have allowed OK businesses to not serve people if doing so was against strong religious convictions? Failed.

They always think that shit is for them. Ours get these bark boxes in the mail every month and one day i brought home a build a bear for my nephew (they come in a cardboard doll house thing) and puppy saw it and got SOO excited. He thought it was for him and was put out for the rest of the day when I wouldn't give it…

What happened to Marlise was absolutely sick. You need more than just a uterus to gestate a healthy pregnancy, and asses like Matt Krause just don't realize that. You're not only taking away someone's bodily autonomy and ignoring their advance directives, you are asking to keep a dead person artificially alive to…

I just listened to a grand jury report on sex abuse in the Philadelphia archdiocese, and what you often saw there is families trying in good faith to go through the church first, getting promises from church leaders that, yes, they'd make sure the offender wasn't around kids any more. Of course, none of these…

This is making me think of a story that I have heard about repeatedly for my entire life. In a way, it has shaped my life, because it certainly shaped my mother's life and made her into the person she is. She had a life long best friend that was 'courted' frequently by a young man throughout high school. Her name was…

Heh. A jackass in college who stalked me was dumb enough to get between hypoglycemic me and the cafeteria when I hadn't eaten in almost 24 hours. I shoved the sod into the wall hard enough that he bounced. The stalking stopped after that...

This is why I've had such a hard time watching romantic comedies lately. If I have to hear about one more guy having to basically stalk or trick a girl into to liking him because he's too awkward or too much of a "nice guy" I'm going to be physically ill.

It needs to start even earlier than that. I work in a day care and I teach pre-school-aged children consent. "No means no and stop means stop." gets tossed around a lot in my class. They ask for permission to touch or hug. They understand that there are ways to say no that don't involve talking (My class is 4 and 5…

Oh god, the "it's so cute" and "you should be flattered" people are the worst! It's not cute having someone keep tabs on you up to 8 hours a day (repeatedly running into you by "accident") and trying to learn your route home. Nor do I feel flattered when someone completely ignores my choices and feelings. It's fucking…

Not to mention how many of them are structured to make it look like the WOMAN is being awful. Like, ugh, what a stuck up bitch! She wants to keep dating her stable seeming handsome doctor boyfriend instead of this zany type who keeps showing up every goddamn where she goes? WOMenzzz!

yesss. We shouldn't treat women and girls like objects that can be won with persistence. It's a garbage precedent to set. Women aren't the supporting characters in your story, they're the stars of their own. ya dig?

Yep. My son, at 8 years old, was all sad in the car when I picked him up from school because, and I quote, Imani 'rejected' him. I explained that she didn't reject him, she just didn't like him the way he liked her, and that's going to happen a lot in life, and that it is OK, and Imani is still a nice girl, and he's…

I WISH I'd been raised to say no. Not to please everyone. Took a long ass time to determine and understand my worth and the power of that worth. Good on that mom. And both of these teens are LUCKY to have an adult lay it out like it is and now how we hope things will be.

And to those people I say: My mom went out with my dad because she wanted to meet my dad's roommate. He badgered her into dating him. He had to badger her into marrying him.

They fucking hate each other. It sounds romantic from the outside, but it is not. cute. up. close.

This is a key life lesson, and I'm really uncomfortable with the trend of shielding children from rejection and failure. And this extends past simply harassing someone you find attractive and being unwilling to accept defeat.

Yes. I will say all kinds of nasty things to Republican Congressman about how they are human filth and deserve to be treated like the bad, bad, filthy worms that they are. Now send me Sephora gift cards and money so I can re-roof my house, k thnx bye!

I do NOT understand the desire for a giant public proposals. They tend to be more about the "show" and less about the meaning behind it. Not all. But most. This one definitely qualifies and it's sad she agreed to marry a narcissist.

10/10 would not marry.