I for one am tickled by the ridiculous idea that "niggabitch" is a common slang term in the States and, even better, that it has something to do with fashion. If it weren't so plainly racist I'd start using it right away.

I find the idea of photographs kind of gross in that case.

I know this is a thing, photographing stillborn or late term miscarried babies. I find it strange, and tend to think I would never do it myself. At the same time, I kind of get the fundamental idea. Your baby died, but to the rest of the world your baby never existed. The photographs, I imagine, help you feel that…

Good luck! I'm sure it's nothing too serious but I hope the doc can clear it up for you fast.

I've never had it on my face, but a dry, itchy patch can be a fungal infection. The fact that it spread seems to suggest an infection of some kind. I'd go to the clinic if it doesn't clear up by tomorrow. Better safe than sorry! I mean it's your face after all.

God you're right. I never thought of it in those terms — people (not) giving thought to the consent aspects of sex and rape. There is just this idea permeating the culture, the idea that consent can be assumed in certain circumstances. That fundamentally underpins the confusion about what's "laddish" and what's rapey.

Okay. I feel that the test subjects' failure to distinguish the sources of the quotes reflects more a problem w/ the test subjects, than with the magazines. Not that there's no problem with the magazines. But I did not have too much trouble identifying which quotations were which. I think the bigger problem is that a…

Just, squeee.

Wonderful! Now we just need all the other opponents of Obama's health care law to get cancer too.

Could you imagine? When I really try to picture it, I realize why it would never happen. Because that would mean saying outright that rape is the fault of the rapist, and that there are certain men out there who will rape (or attempt it) if given the opportunity. The idea that your dude friend might be a rapist is…

Yeah, I had a problem with that too. Having sex is indeed accepting the possibility of pregnancy. The two are directly related - in fact pregnancy is the natural and usual result of sex, absent preventive measures. Whereas the connection between drinking and getting raped is nonexistent.

This is so totally offensive. Not so much because it claims that some rape victims "asked for it" — I don't think the ad really suggests that women deserve to be raped for any reason. It's more an implication that rape just exists, as a force of nature. Rape is out there, rapists are out there, they're waiting to…

"Evil?" "Punishing and threatening... traumatizing?" I hope you didn't get those characterizations from my comment.

I'm so glad to hear it!

FWIW, I have a family history too and had to start mammograms quite early. The day I showed up for the mammogram, they made me do a sonogram in addition because apparently young women's mammograms are harder to read. Even though it was all baseline stuff, it made me irrationally anxious. Your mind starts to wander,…

Ugh. Hope she's doing well now!

I've always found the wait time between irregular mammogram result and actual biopsy a terrifying thought. My heart goes out to women who have to go through that, knowing that they might have cancer but having to wait to find out for certain.

Maybe it's because I'm Jewish, but I never understood the Santa lie. People say it's "fun" and "magical" to make their children think that Christmas gifts come from this benevolent and jovial yet distant figure, instead of from their parents who love them and work hard to provide for them.

"Don't you just want to hug Jon Hamm?"

But remember, folks: Unions are way too powerful and bad teachers have no accountability.