I have the same problem with tampons - I’ve never been able to wear them comfortably. I tried the Diva Cup and I’m convinced that it makes my cramps worse. I tried to stick with it for awhile anyway, because, as you probably know, having to wear pads exclusively can get extremely uncomfortable and even cause chafing.…

That concerns me too. My fiance and I both have a lot of student debt. Right now we’re working on his and leaving mine to the future, because we can’t deal with both at once. I don’t know we’ll ever get out, but I hope they at least succeed in doing something for future students. I don’t want our kids to end up in the…

He does??? That’s it. I know how to use all my extra Audible credits.

EXACTLY. This pill does nothing to physically enable a woman to have sex. When we first read about it, my (male) roommates had a chuckle over it, and I was just frustrated at the mere existence of a pill like this. It seems more like a pill for men than a pill for women - not a pill for men to take, but to complement…

God. You’re totally right, and I didn’t see it that way. I mean, I knew it was an entirely inappropriate response that was dismissive of an actual problem, but the way you just described it makes it worse than I realized.

I’m seeing some suggestions that a lot of these are probably just the same troll under different names, and I hope that’s true. It’s still discouraging, but maybe not quite as bad as I thought.

Thank you for staying in there providing a voice of reason. I’m appalled by what I’m seeing in the comments here, and I don’t think I would be able to do what you’re doing. It’s like these people didn’t even read the same article I did. In some cases I suspect they didn’t read the whole thing.

Exactly what I thought. “Their experience was not what they hoped it would be,” is maybe how you describe people’s reaction to the Star Wars prequels. It is definitely not how you address students telling you there is a serious problem with the way they are treated on campus.

Three people have now told me that story was fake. I should have known it was too perfect to be true. :)

That’s terrifying. All the more so because I think that’s pretty close to what my mom said happened. She was horrified to find out what kind of place we had come to. I didn’t hear anything about this until years after we left (I was only 7 at the time).

Ahhhh. That makes more sense.

I lived in Indiana for five years as a kid. When my family moved in, a neighbor casually told my mother that before us, a black family had “tried” to move into that house, but they “couldn’t have that.” This was a bit over twenty years ago, and I’m frightened to think about what the neighborhood must have done to…

I heard Yelp was trying to sue Southpark over that (apparently not seeing the delicious irony), which I found hilarious. I don’t remember where I heard it, though.

I appreciate that. :) I’m glad that your experience with Christianity is a much better one.

Thank you! I’ll check those out.

Huh. That’s interesting. And you’re absolutely correct; I never did study the Bible’s history. I would be really interested to know which letters are which, since I’ve never learned about that before.

Jesus may not have been, but Paul sure was...

When I first read the headline I thought the guards assaulted the inmate, which would still be horrific, but they actually exerted that kind of violent authority over a visitor who was there just peacefully and affectionately greeting his boyfriend??

Holy shit. I am so sorry. Stories like yours are why I get so angry when people try to say that women are to blame for not standing up for themselves... and then if we do stand up, and the man reacts violently, the same people will say we’re to blame for confronting them.

There’s no shame in not confronting. As others have already said, it can be dangerous to confront even one man, let alone a group of them, even in a public place.