It’s hilarious to me that you seem to think talking to rape victims is some kind of theoretical mental exercise. You know they’re literally fucking everywhere, right? Instead of a dramatic re-enactment of how you, in your infinite wisdom, imagine some hypothetical woman would respond, why don’t you let real, live rape…

Let me run “we had this challenge as governor, stuff happens” through the translator:

How should you be able to know the difference between Spanish and Latin, or how should you be able to see the t-shirt in the picture?

Jane was my favorite Brady.

Right, but — SHE’S GAY. She is a woman who is apparently exclusively romantically and sexually interested in women. This isn’t about “other lifestyles.” Caitlyn Jenner is a homosexual lady.

That’s what kills me. People do this because they say they want to “help.” Well, for a lot of us fat people, it doesn’t make us skinnier. And for the people who do get skinnier, or stay skinny, because they fear reprisal for gaining weight? Fucking think about that. That’s when you’re going to feel like you’ve…

That’s one interpretation. It lacks the historical context, however, which was that people were attempting throughout his ministry to maneuver Jesus into endorsing the brewing rebellion against Roman occupation, either because they actually wanted him as a leader or because that would give the Roman government a…

Yeah, why won’t you smile, Kanye? You look so pretty when you smile!

Eh, people went plenty nuclear over a white dude who shot a lion not too long ago, IIRC. I think we just have such an empathy deficient culture that the honest to god only forms of life that people are able to imagine not judging the fuck out of are animals, so they go nuts with it.

I don’t know, man. I mean, sure, it’s a health problem, and I don’t wish those on anyone. But she has all the health care that exists on the planet; she has plenty of support in terms of friends and family; she already has one bio-kid and seems likely to end up with two safe and sound. She’s having some life…

Referring to the man who tied you up and beat you with a bat until you escaped to the cops as “the only man who ever stood up to me” —

I think she did end up wearing a wire for the police, didn’t she? Or was that a different woman?

I am soooooo fucking glad I was in junior high & high school before (87-93) this goddamn nonsense about anal being some kind of natural halfway house in sexual activity. What. the. balls. In our world at that time, it was seen as the filthiest, most out-there thing you could possibly do, and existed only in legend and…

What. is. the matter. with. adults? Fucking *what.*

Well, maybe. It’s hard to know for sure, because we’re all entirely unfamiliar with the experience of listening to men hold forth on what all women are really like. I wonder how it would feel?

Honestly, my advice? Don’t monitor. It’ll only spur them to become actively devious and full of lies, which I have to think is worse for everyone in the long run than being like the rest of us and just passively leaving our parents out of the loop on all the major stuff. Seems like the least worst solution to me —…

It’s an old Jewish tradition, having to do with when you could be ritually cleansed in order to enter the temple after giving birth. Three guesses why having a son makes you less ritually impure than having a daughter. (In case it’s not obvious, most Jews no longer hold to that type of purity law. Occasionally a…

Doubtless. There’s nothing we love more than thinking about how much better we’d be at managing other people’s life circumstances than they are.

I’m loathe to defend anything about these people, but — 6 weeks is 42 days. So it’s in line with the general medical guideline.

I knew some girls “everyone knew” were having sex at that age. In retrospect, it looks a whole lot more like misogynist bullshit slung at girls who developed early and/or didn’t fit in socially.