as a woman about a week away from 2 years thanks to AA, i disagree. it’s not for everyone but to say that the higher power solution doesnt work for women is ludicrous.

Yea when I read the “this is because you look like Shia LaBouef” I was like....what in the ACTUAL fuck is that nonsense

I think this is a pretty classy move that doesn’t deserve snark.

“I’m just trying to make sure you’re not being harassed!” (As I stand outside the bathroom, waiting to harass you)

That’s how you can tell he’s sincere. He gets called out, he checks his initial defensiveness, then listens and changes. No one is the perfect ally. People have to be allowed to learn from their mistakes (if they’re willing to, that is).

I feel like you’re setting the bar a little high here. It’s counterproductive IMO for you to chastise men for purporting to be allies to the feminist movement for failing to adhere 100% to YOUR orthodoxy.

I do absolutely get the “it’s easier for a man to be a feminist” thing. Every now and then a troll will presume I’m a woman and I’ll get a fraction of the gendered harassment that women on this site get, and it’s such a heartbreakingly personal reminder of how I, as an ally, can't truly understand the psychic toll of…

I mean it just seems sort of weird to actively profit off of people who care about these things, and then go eat a bunch of steaks in your backyard.

I’m just Joe Whitebread (actually, Sam Jewishguy, but you get my point). My stereotype was not that Muslim parents were tyrants, but that first generation immigrant parents were tyrants.

No-one deserves to go out like that and all this will do is fuel the bigots' argument that Muslim parents are tyrants (when most Muslim parents I've known have been splendid souls). My own mother often used Islam as an excuse to deny us fun. You can imagine how I felt when I came across her photo in a book about…

I freaking love Grover! I’m still upset that annoying ass Elmo stole his thunder. (Also, does anybody remember the name of the incredibly tiny cup guy that had kitchen adventures? I miss that guy)

The original comment said “in some states” and didn’t attribute blame to the court or to the statutory situation. Stop blaming other people for your poor reading comprehension.

Whether you attribute blame to the court or the legislature, which is always an issue in contentious cases, is not something TheVagenius expressed an opinion on. So it kind of seems like you’re being intentionally dishonest just to troll people here.

Meh, my dad was very active in our local environmental activism scene when I was a kid; he was an oncologist by training so it was a good fit. I wrote a similar letter to Bill Clinton around the same age about some environmental stuff in our community that I was interested in at the time and got a response. I’m 29 and…

Disenfranchised, poor, and minority groups often have to grow up a little faster than the privileged. Instead of calling her parents crazy, I wonder why your reaction to this obviously intelligent child who is old enough to understand that her drinking water is poison isn’t one of pride and support?

Putting anything in an unconscious person’s mouth can lead to choking and death. How the heck can endangering someone like that be legal, even if they overlook the sexual aspect?

This is especially true when the dead person is one’s own father. I’ve dealt with it by saying, “My dad and I have a much better relationship now that he’s dead.”

OMG. I honestly thought that women were all a single hive organism of clones. Mind. Blown.

women, we all look the same

I remember that. I miss Spy. I have just 3 issues saved, The 100 Worst People and Events of 1992, Holy Smokes (cigar aficionada Madonna Ciccone on the cover Oct 1996) And Get Single: How Celebrities Dump Their Lovers, with (ironically) Drew Barrymore April 1997.