Is this you trying to get us to say you can bang an 18 year old?

you seem especially defensive. your analogy is bad. you should just walk away.

What are you talking about?

OMG this is so good.

I can tell you about Paraguard!

I just got the Mirena implanted yesterday, and I feel fine today. It definitely hurt going in and I felt crampy all day, but a bottle of wine and a big bag of Cheez-Its made me feel much better. I highly recommend taking some ibuprofen about an hour before your appointment :)

Can someone, pretty please, conduct a study about the women who buy hook line and sinker into these marketing schemes that eventually become a Thing(tm)You(tm)Have(tm)To(tm)Have(tm)For(tm)Your(tm)SpecialDayofSnowflakery(tm)?

Good news is, you don’t have to get slipcovers for folding chairs. And if people aren’t paying for stuff, they shouldn’t be telling you what to do.

I combined them all when I realized I couldn’t afford a honeymoon after wedding expenses. All-inclusive resort in a different country where a simple (yet memorable, minus the stress) wedding, you get to spend the whole time on a beach with a drink in your hand and only the people who matter most go. It was perfection.

Yeah, I think so. I’m getting my IUD inserted next week (nervous and excited!) and I have not had kids. Due to that, my doctor recommended the Skyla because it’s a touch smaller, but it wasn’t like a hard and fast rule. If I wanted the Paraguard, I still could have chosen it. It’s a lingering falsehood that IUDs…

I’ve never met a single person (outside the police) that had a good reason to carry a loaded gun in public everywhere. They’re definitely compensating for a shortcoming of some type or another.

Exactly - there seems to be a real “Super-Mommy” complex, here, that I think needs much more discussion. It seems like an illness that requires significant therapy.

Yeah, that is what’s been occurring to me too, particularly on the re-read of the article and the first woman's comment about how she felt so powerless without a gun because she couldn't do something about the threat at her child's school. The disconnect there...they called her at work, so she couldn't have done…

It depends on how desperate her need to feel like a super-special, important heroine. I honestly have a theory that some (many?) of these women are so depleted in the self-esteem apartment that this entire issue is more about feeling valuable and important than it is anything else.

Two completely different worlds

The fact you’ve taken precautions and training make you a perfect candidate for safe gun ownership. You aren’t carrying it around because a homeless person might ask you for change.

Lordy, THIS. Did she need a gun to deal with an unarmed homeless dude in broad daylight?

Except that cars nor dogs nor swimming pools were designed specifically to kill.

Unless your are willing to spend from two to four hours a day practicing practical shooting technique, do not carry a firearm.