One time when I was really poor and didn’t have health insurance, a PP nurse practitioner gave me antibiotics also appropriate for an upper respiratory infection when I originally went in for a UTI (I was really, really sick). They definitely saved me from having to go to the hospital pre-ACA and incurring impossible…

She can’t slut-shame the girl because she acts slutty herself. (By her own admission.) It’s basically, “I would be the pot calling the kettle black.” I don’t see how that isn’t easy to understand.

An American Indian man gave a priest his money to hold so he wouldn’t drink it away. After one weekend where he went on a bender, he had to go ask the priest for money. The priest told him to think about his sins and to study this painting. It was a painting of hell and the torments the damned experienced. After some…

No, but I do when I orgasm. I’m like, that was a rich magenta.. or a piercing white. Haha.

Few things are as offensive to me as people who buy pets on a whim & at the first sign of inconvenience get rid of it. I know I’ve talked to a lot of my fellow Jezzies (off topic: what’s a male jezzie called? Is it still just jezzie?) about the HUGE problems I’ve had with my moms neighbors doing that to their pets…

Also: the pitch at which women and men do vocal fry tends to be very close to the same pitch, but obviously the way that women and men speak with “normal” voicing is very different, so the fall in pitch from women’s normal voicing to vocal fry is more dramatic than the same fall in men’s voices. This means that vocal…

I do research on vocal fry as a masters student in linguistics. Myths about vocal fry (but also women’s language in general) are very frustrating, but especially the fact that it’s a woman-only phenomenon.

No entitlements, though. Those little shits can learn how to breathe on someone else’s dime.

Fine, fine - scrape the little bastards out of the womb and let them fend for themselves if they’re so viable, then. Bootstraps, etc.

is she modeling to become a new Barbie?

The really illuminating part of the This American Life show was when they talked about how it’s not just vocal fry that people complain about. Before that, it was uptalk, and before that, it was using “like” too much. And the thing is, with all three of those trends, they’re things that both men and women do, but they…

I just wish all the stuff they are talking about in Slack and elsewhere would get recorded into a post for us commenters. That way, I would have plenty of stuff to comment on! Also it would alleviate the boredom of this meeting, which I will be trapped in for all eternity (the rest of the week).

OR, some people aren’t good at mating for life.

Putting someone on TV doesn’t necessarily equal glamorizing. You’d have to be an idiot to look at their lives and thinking getting pregnant at 16 was a good idea.

She hasn’t been charged with anything yet. Although the family of the victim has filed papers to sue her the for wrongful death.

I mean, no one is saying she's a hero for crashing into someone. It's not like the award is for Best Negligent Car Accident.

I absolutely hate the worship of soldiers in this country. Yes, you can be grateful towards the soldiers but I hate that if you dare to criticize the military even a little bit, people will tear you apart. It’s ridiculous. And these are often the same people who hate “political correctness”. That said, this award is…

I know it must be very difficult to muster the kind of cognitive dissonance needed for the family of the Jenner crash victims to see Caitlyn everywhere and thriving. However, I have a friend in ICU fighting for his life right now because of a car crash where he was not driving. And I’m not sure if I blame the driver.…

I find it difficult to understand how the culture we live in can honor a person who is responsible for taking a life and injuring several others

Seeing all those young kids so excited makes me have cry emotions. I am 100% back at WWC '99, 13 years old, pants freshly pissed in from the excitement of Chastain's winning goal. I literally pissed my pants when we won. I fucking love soccer.