What does it mean that this post has more spambot comments than actual comments?

I really dislike it when people immediately jump to mental illness as an explanation of heinous crimes. Firstly, people with mental illness are already incredibly stigmatised, and this makes them more "Other". Secondly, they are much more likely to be victims of crime than perpetrators.

This author, in particular, has posted a bunch of reckless articles that make no sense recently - particularly a horrific victim-shaming and doubting article that caused major uproar. Perhaps she just needs a vacay... I wouldn't take what she writes too seriously, or try and extract too much sense from it.

Yoga Nerd,

Pregnancies can be rough. Don't be hard on yourself!

Wait... so my well behaved dog, a pug who has never even growled at another dog no less bit anyone (or anything, besides food) in her life, isn't supposed to be able to walk around HER OWN YARD off of a leash when I am doing yardwork because YOUR dogs are "territorial?" It's not THEIR territory! It's hers! She isn't…

I see your Sleeping Beauty castle, and raise you Neuschwanstein, a.k.a. Cinderella's Castle:

The "he had to do/say something to warrant the attack" comments have GOT TO GO! Because reverse the roles and this muthafucker would light up like a Christmas tree with comments attacking that notion (and rightfully so.).

Both things can be true. My mom's an incredibly abusive narcissist who is also very devoted and caregiving to people outside of her immediate family.

Did you know that 1 in 10 American women has PCOS, an endocrine disorder that causes weight gain? What about the fact that 60% of people with hypothyroidism, which also causes weight gain, don't even know about their condition? That's on top of the 20 million Americans who do. It's the food supply. It's the healthcare…

Which is why it's GREAT. I have about 40 years of Eurovision Song Contest watching under my belt, and it used to be about SONGS (hence the name) and then slowly evolved in a campy crapfest. (ABBA may look like utter camp now, but was meant as a completely serious thing back then! Unintentional camp is superior to…

Inaction on his part will hurt her more. She helped raise him for 30 years and now feels pushed aside. He might not want to take sides but he certainly needs to show this woman that leaving to move thousands of miles away is not an option. I cannot imagine what she is going through. A husband who isn't caring for…

That would be the hormone cortisol at work. When we are stressed, our adrenal glands release cortisol, which, among other things, causes us to hoard fat AND seek out high fat/high sugar/high calorie foods. It also effects how our bodies process glucose and use insulin. This is a large reason why someone who is on long…

For a month, I used an app to keep track of everything I ate and all the exercise I did. Considering my husband and I rarely eat out and make 95% of our meals from scratch, I just couldn't figure out why, with added exercise, I wasn't losing any weight. I thought I ate pretty healthy....turns out I do. My sodium…

I miss the times when the quality of the songs decided the winners and losers.

Did you know that if you rearrange the letters of Mark Jacobs name, and replace some letters with other letters, it will spell Illuminati?

Think about it.

OK, but please don't post that goddamn "Jolene" video. I just can't take it anymorrrr

I do sports medicine for special needs children and I teach ballet to kids. I meet a lot of parents of all kinds. Some of the parents I meet are so wonderful, they make my heart swell up and I can hardly believe that they are real. Some parents don't love their kids.

While this is clearly upsetting to some people here, I think it's important to see things like this.

Not a grump. Certainly not a misanthrope. I like humankind for the most part, but I just don't want kids of my own. (At the moment, but I'm currently not in a relationship and I have no desire to do the kid thing on my own.) I have two wonderful nieces that I love more than life itself and am constantly amazed at…