I am so disappointed. I hope this actually does lead to a policy change, but I'm not hopeful. I loved Kickstarter, but unless they address this a bit further, I'm not sure that continuing to fund their projects would be entirely in line with my values.

It's just there are so many factors and unique situations. For instance, bipolar women are at a severely high risk of having a manic or mixed episode, which can be extremely dangerous. This is compounded because they can't take their regular medication due to fetal safety. Obviously, bipolar women can and do have…

It's like the fetal heartbeat nonsense all over again when they started forcing women to listen to it despite the fact that it doesn't actually make a difference in abortion rates. I really don't think they are bothered with science or facts.

It's not about fetal pain; that argument is just concern trolling. The real purpose is to dismantle Roe v Wade inch by inch, and it's completely about ensuring that women do not have a right to their own bodies.

Yeah, it's just that in the mainstream risk management seems to take up the entire discussion about rape. It derails the conversation utterly. It is all anyone ever talks about when they talk about rape. In all of these discussions in the media, they will throw in a single statement about how we should teach boys to…

I tend to use the terms psychopath and sociopath somewhat interchangably, and these are often useful descriptors for most people who have ASPD. All antisocial people are highly narcissistic, and the damage that narcissists can do can be similar to that of sociopath, but I don't think they are on the same spectrum…

Really? I agreed with your original assessment, but then again, I was only able to sleep for four hours last night so maybe I am grumpy too.

I agree that it is not traditionally appropriate, but perhaps he could not afford to give a cash gift. If you don't appreciate a gift someone has given you, especially if they have taken the time to arrange it themselves, why on earth would you tell them that? What on Earth could be the point? Is it really worth…

Ugh, when people come to your wedding, they are doing you a favor, not the other way around.

Of course not. I'm not sure what I said that would give you the impression that I'm advocating the eradication of research or the suppression of information or that I am feeling anger about it. The issue is all in the presentation. Like so:

Yeah, I pegged him as antisocial too. I know this isn't an actual diagnostic criterion, but he also has those empty sociopath eyes.

The title is pretty awful in relation to what the article says about PTSD. I don't tend to think of involuntarily reliving trauma while attempting to sleep as actually "cheating yourself of sleep," and the implication that it is appropriate to describe it that way is incredibly problematic when trauma survivors are…

Perhaps because the primary cause of insomnia is stress, and it doesn't do much to help relieve anxiety when we now have to worry about all of the negative implications of said insomnia. That's kind of the ultimate mindfuck, to not be able to sleep in part because of your worries about what will happen to you because…

We can only hope.

What's curious though, is they aren't waiting to see if anyone is convicted first; they are supposed to release the names at the preliminary hearing.

I am so sorry that you had this experience too, and I am glad your instincts kept you alive. I think we do the best we can. Sometimes we can escape assault by fighting back, but sometimes not fighting back saves our lives. Every situation is different, and no one can really agree on what to do when you are attacked. I…

I live in the South and there is a really common attitude among Southern racists to say that the n-word is a descriptor for certain black people that the racist has deemed no good for whatever reason. This is the kind of thing I read in what Paula Deen said: not that she carelessly ordered her adjectives, but that she…

I also think they should have been suspended, charged much sooner than more than a year after the assault, and their names should have been released when they were charged. Why are they delaying the release of the names?

My parents would never buy me toys for boys, but when I was little I used to smuggle my brother's action figures (especially the bad guys because they looked way cooler) and LEGOs into my room and play with them.

She will then perform the miraculous feat of seeming to apologize without actually taking any responsibility for what she has said.