"On the other hand, have then won a major military campaign since Roman times? Not really."

That is just sad. Wow.

*opera appreciators

"Thankfully, others in the opera community are circling the wagons around Erraught because, honestly, who the hell cares if the best singer for a role doesn't give middle aged opera critics a boner?"

The term "trigger" and the resulting phenomenon of warnings came from the psychiatric community, originally. Please try not to let ignorant tweens on the internet color your vision of a very real problem that can also be very dangerous. People who are otherwise fine are at risk of having a psychotic breakdown after…

Translation of my last comment: "It Is Fucking Idiotic To Make Kids Think About Heavy Topics That Already Have Objective Answers As If They Are Debatable Opinions... Or is it?"

And this is why I'm glad my country has laws against public Holocaust denial. Kids should never be exposed to propaganda like "...Or merely a political scheme created to influence public emotion and gain wealth" in their places of education.

Alternately, "Do Androids REALLY Dream of Electric Sheep?"

Love how the critics and mainstream picture this kind of movie as artsy and bold when a man directs it, yet dismiss Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring as trite and shallow.

I have endometriosis and underwent aggressive treatment for it. A couple of years ago I developed chronic, excruciating pain radiating from my right thigh. At first I was convinced this might be related to my history with endo and went to several OB-GYN's to find the cause and be given proper treatment. One of them, a…

Well, since his criminal record includes rape, it's possible choice wasn't involved at all. Many states allow rapists to file suits against their victims in order to get custody or visitation rights to the offspring that was created by said rape.

That's not what I'm advocating, it's just that most of these articles contain blatant misinformation (take the "Lethal painkiller 10 times as strong as Vicodin" debacle - it's actually a safer way for chronic pain sufferers to take their meds, it's absolutely NOT 10 times as strong but it just lasts longer, and it…

Loved her other two more, but glad for her nonetheless. She absolutely deserves it.

Yes, you are obviously educated on chronic pain and wish healing to all those people you just called addicts, told that their pain is caused by a problem in their head/diet/lifestyle and that it would go away if they just changed one of those factors. Excuse me if I go vomit now.

My point is that you can not go around judging these women when you don't know the first thing about their specific situations. Some can't afford not to take them, ever. Some don't know they're pregnant, or did not get pregnant by choice. Also, their fetuses might be getting a certain percentage in utero but that is…

Actually, most of us chronic pain sufferers experience the opposite: the moral panic about addiction has created a lot of restrictive (to say the least) legislation, to the point that most doctors are absolutely afraid of prescribing adequate pain relief. I've had three pain specialists (!) and one MD tell me, right…

You know, I don't think the article is in any way clear on if these people were already taking opioids or not, as you are. That quote is deceptive - the article mentions a jump in the use of opioids among women in general and then states that X amount of pregnant women take opioids. If you're on painkillers you have…

I'm sorry, but what? Do you know how many surgeries I've been through at age 22, how many experimental treatments I've undergone? I'd like to see you take on 10% of what I and millions of others feel for half an hour and see if you'd still advise someone to just change their "diet" or "lifestyle" (there is no life…

That's a very simplistic view, to say the least. Chronic pain is primarily rooted in damage done or problems present in the nervous system - whatever the original cause of those may be. Most people can do nothing to "repair" the circle of pain impulses sent to their brain outside of trying to alleviate said pain…

I love how you assume that pregnant women could only have one source of pain: child birth. Chronic pain just isn't something on your radar, is it? Not all people are aware that they're pregnant until months later or can just forgo the medicines that they take. Not to mention that far from all pregnancies are a woman's…