OMG my favorite is when they disclaim: “tell your doctor if you live somewhere where certain fungal or bacterial infections are common.”

I have a much younger half sister, and this is my MO with her. She’s 10 now, I’ve always asked her if I can have a hug. Now she likes to hug me around my legs and try to pick me up (truly terrifying, but she LOVES it). But I always ask.

totally fair point. my nephew is generally coated in invisible boogers that magically become visible as soon as they attach themselves to me. It’s awful.

I think I’m remembering the same article (wasn’t it on Jez?). I told my hub and he didn’t agree as much. I still think it’s super important to teach consent from day 1.

I’m really glad that she’s pursuing this fully. The fact that dudes everywhere put their hands on women willy nilly every damn day is because not enough women and men say resoundingly: this is not okay.

He for sure could be Matt’s older brother, or like, uncle, or something. I declare the resemblance: LEGIT!

where THE FUCK is Olivia Benson?

I think the implication was 2nd wave feminism. Which actually kicked off in the late 60s, but still.

Are you familiar with the “Mandela Effect”? It’s where people on the internet convince themselves that they’re in an alternate reality because they misremembered (or were wrong) about something. Namesake: some people apparently thought that Nelson Mandela died in prison. They think they somehow got ported to an…

smelling or tasting is 100% a stupid thing to do. I’m just saying... I’m not sure I wouldn’t do it if I got a weird envelope full of powder. I once saw scattered white tablets all over the sidewalk and I licked one to verify that they were, indeed, breath mints. I was 24 or 25. I am also, i like to think, not…

although he did use the word “baby” so many times it made me hate the word “baby.” That’s pretty in line w/ pro life. They’re all like “oh it has finger nails! It has eyelashes!”

I used to lie all the time as a child, then i had a really close call where my dad almost discovered the extent of my lies (I wrote a “what I did over the summer” essay that was full of lies that he almost read, it included the whopper that my sister had broken her hip). The trauma and anxiety of that experience…

I could see myself taking a whiff to verify that it’s not baby powder, or something with a discernible odor. No clue how I’d actually respond, but I could see that happening. Just a stupid, knee-jerk reaction in a weird situation.

telling people who don’t like a term that it’s not a slur... that’s cool. That’s definitely gone well in the past.

i mean, given what he said, I wouldn’t be that shocked if he actually thought storks were involved.

my sister just gave birth at 33 weeks. My nephew was in the NICU for a little bit, but otherwise he’s totally fine, just small. Trump is a fucking idiot.

thanks, but my dad isn’t any of those things. He’s a surgeon who lives in a city.

I never said that I’ve stopped talking to my dad, or that I don’t love him anymore or ANYTHING like that. I simply said that I’m struggling with it. It just hurts my brain that someone I love can see someone like Trump and think “yeah, imma vote for that.”

besides which I believe pedophilia is notoriously hard to treat, from a psychological perspective. The urges don’t go away. Putting him back in home with children is unwise to an absurd degree.

also, weirdly, he was charged with felony incest, which doesn’t sound like what this was. This was serial rape and child abuse. This isn’t a dude and his sister who decided to fuck. I could be totally ignorant of all the legal intricacies of this charge, but it really sounds like a mischaracterization of the crime…