Literal jaw drop.

...A great disturbance in the force, as if a million voices of Maxim readers suddenly cried out, “wait, why am I getting hard? I’m not gay!!!” and then were silenced.

I’ve perfected the art of quietly hitting the mute button while the other person is jabbering on so I can fart/flush discreetly. THEY. NEVER. KNOW. And for the rest of the day I am empowered.

...Dammit, I’m intrigued.

Yeah, I’m thinking I’d like to go to one or two just to figure out how to replicate the experience at home.

I wonder Christian Zionists trying to speed along Armageddon ever talk to their Jewish “allies” about where they think Jews will end up when Christ comes back? Because I’m pretty sure they think Jews will go to hell, right? Man, that must be awkward.

That must have been hard to grow up with. I’m glad for your sake that he changed and you’re both maintaining a relationship.

I feel like the “opposites attract” thing could work better with the two of them than with Ron and Hermione if written well.

One of the older Weasleys, maybe? But none of them were as passionate about social justice as she was. I don’t think anyone was, really.

There’s *still* massive skepticism. I was on a thread yesterday where people were saying that everyone did that drug in that time period, and that he didn’t actually admit to slipping the drug to the women without their knowledge, so he was probably just getting them to have consensual sex while high.

That’s not the same thing as “conditioned behavior.”

Probably a “quirk” of the Cold War legacy, which amplified America’s whole “individualism” thing for everyone, but maybe especially in the military. And I think in the military you’re sort of encouraged to compartmentalize, so maybe the contradiction isn’t as noticeable? (Armchair sociologist at your service!)

A friend of mine worked through her first pregnancy, but her second is really taking a huge toll on her. Baby’s fine, she’s fine, she’s just... horribly uncomfortable and exhausted in a way she wasn’t with her first. She’s a teacher and she’s already off work for the summer, but if she weren’t, she wouldn’t be able to…

I actually think that’s a pretty damn good excuse. Conditioned behavior is incredibly hard to change or even recognize. I really respect people for trying, but I don’t think it’s very productive to automatically condemn people when they don’t. Most of us are just doing the best we can with what we’ve got.

Yeah. As far as I know Fox has few or no women above a certain age and outside a very narrowly defined standard of beauty. Palin’s getting older. It might have more to do with that than anything else.

It’s a thing. Mine couldn’t even be inserted - I was given drugs to relax my muscles, anesthetic, and tried two different times and my uterus just pushed it right back out. At one point, with two doctors hovering between my legs and a nurse holding one of them to the side, my doctor straightened up and told me that…

Long before I’d ever heard of PUA culture, a weirdly inconsistent and fairly red-flaggy former beau got in touch with me years later, after I’d married and was in the process of divorce. We chatted online a bit and then he asked me out for a drink. I agreed, knowing that the stakes were low, I was older and wiser and…

That is fucking beautiful.

It’s based on the belief that the vast majority of women experience horror and regret after an abortion. Which is what a lot of these anti-choice people actually believe.

Wait, is it me or is there a Klingon woman in the background on the left making the exact same head motion as Janeway?