Oh God. Oh God. Oh God. My partner is not circumcised, and that shit is so sensitive I’ve had to completely re-learn how to do a blowjob. We don’t have sex without condoms, EVER. I could so easily see that last story happening to us and holy shit how did that poor boy ever have sex again!!!

Re: First story - I once…

Yeah, that was my thought. There was a very “come the revolution, you’ll be eaten last” tone to that comment. Like, if you’re only supporting BLM because you think there’s a race war coming and the browns are going to take over everything and you want to be on the right side... you’re doing it wrong.

I like that you’ve already established that she gets her own side of the bed, and now you’re just trying to keep her from encroaching (too much) onto yours. :P

Also for aging pets. Says the woman who just put a step stool next to her bed for her 14-year-old tubby tabby.

Seriously. This whole story is so disgustingly awful that this is the only possible way I could see it getting a little better. I didn’t learn until my early twenties that the adults around me in my childhood were all wrong - that I *was* being victimized, that I *wasn’t* to blame for it. All I can hope is that this…

If it makes you feel any better, I always regret never exploring my interest in geology. Everything I read about it - from volcanoes to minerals to coastal erosion to glacial moraines - makes me want to study it.

Hi, fellow geographer (I think?)! I don’t think that commenter was trying to take a cheap shot - I think they legit didn’t know that geography goes beyond things like state borders and locations of mountains. I didn’t know that either when I started my undergrad. Now I’m working toward my PhD and explaining the same…

I commented but... I think it was eaten? Weird. Sorry for the double post if I’m about to make one. Anyway:

*wince* I knew this would come up.

Seriously. I think he’s pretty self-aware about that though - he played it up in Scrubs.

I loved Garden State the first time I saw it. And the second and the third. I think it was Lindy West’s recap that made me rethink it? And then I was more annoyed with myself than with the movie... that her character so obviously couldn’t exist in any other reality that didn’t revolve around giving the Sensitive Guy…

I find crossing/re-crossing my legs is a discreet way to give my ass a bit of breathing room while sitting.

I agree on the “men mostly haven’t learned to control the sound.” I am my current partner’s first girlfriend, and he was mortified the first time he let one rip and it came out with this weird squeaky sound. I laughed it off and now he farts with gusto and confidence and I feel I’ve been a positive ass-gas influence…

I can’t burp. Seriously. Just can’t. Very rarely, like, less than once a month maybe, some tiny little burp might emerge, always unexpected. This used to come up (heh) in conversation every now and then, but I’ve pretty much stopped mentioning it because apparently it takes about 3 seconds of mulling that one over…

Yeah, you’d be amazed. I remember my mother describing her experience touring a Buddhist temple for the first time. She talked about how beautiful and peaceful and tranquil it was, etc. And then she said that the whole thing made her feel terrible. “Terrible? Why?” “Well, because all those people are going to hell!”

Can you just imagine the looks on Future and Drake’s faces watching this video?

No. Getting caught at the pagan websites I was visiting back when the internet (and I) was young would have had seriously awful consequences for me. I would have been removed from my karate class as punishment, subjected to weird Christian therapy, my bedroom would have been tossed for demonic contraband and the door…

I loved that movie so much. I won’t talk about it much because spoilers, but hell - that lesson is still a good one for me as a 36-year-old.

Same here. I started getting psychiatric diagnoses and medications at age 10 because my mother just couldn’t fathom that our tiny little fundie church-elementary school setup was bad for me. It didn’t fit in with her view of the world, so the problem must be me. By the time I’d graduated high school I had been in and…

I’m not sure, actually. I don’t know much about these two families specifically, but I know about strict patriarchal religious upbringing and when this first broke, I was thinking the only real chance for her to get out would be if she got endorsement and financial support from a male member of her family. I figured…