I did not miss anything, we just apparently disagree on my point. As I said in my comment, I think the impulse to say in this situations “it’s a shame that he feels he needs to talk about this” is unhelpful. I think we probably all agree that it would be great if someone’s HIV status was a perfectly mundane topic for…

I think this was an act of defiance and courage, not of feeling pressured or fearful.

Stigmas only disappear when more people talk openly about their illnesses. Though it’s hard to imagine now, it was once taboo to talk about breast cancer. That didn’t change until women stopped acting like keeping their cancer private was not just something that they might want to do, but what everyone should want to…

Agree. My husband is an infectious disease physician. The IDSA suggests all sexually active people get tested for HIV every year.

It makes me so sad that there were probably so many bubbly JVNs in the 80s and early 90s who got the same news at 25 and didn't live to see 30. Thank goodness (science) for HIV/AIDS research. 

THE DNC SUGGESTS WHITE LIBERALS LOCK THEIR PARENTS IN THE BASEMENT ON ELECTION NIGHT IN ORDER TO SECURE A 2020 WIN.

Yeah, no, I cannot compute feeling “ire” at ever seeing a little girl who looks like this or having the nerve to compare this hairstyle—which looks like the girl just got out of soccer practice for fuck’s sake—to minstrel imagery.

And, BTW, he’s not even going to get the nomination. I don’t see how people are dispairing like he already won the primary. He’s not even a huge frontrunner in the national polls; in the state polls, he’s actually tied or behind candidates this early in the race.

The first thing I did when I retired from sex work was chuck every single pair of stilettos I owned into the goodwill box, because fuck high heels, fuck walking in them, fuck standing in them, fuck ball kicking in them, fuck them for ever.

I mean, as far as I know Britney hasn’t been out raping kids.  Serious mental illness or no, she seems like a decent human being, so the comparison grates a bit.

I hope he hasn’t been allowed to continue being a resident assistant in a dorm. After allegedly attempting to assault her, he later entered her room uninvited and stood inside the doorway while she yelled at him to leave.

Perhaps this analysis might help w/ the confusion. 

“But I wouldnt want to live in a society that upholds or says its ok for anyone to think that they should use their bodies for gain, especially not women.”

The comments are SO weird to me. A wedding doesn’t have to be an EVENT. It can just be a happy celebration. The dinosaur didn’t steal the entire thing. Did people look at the Dino? Fuck yeah. But that doesn’t take anything away from two people promising to love each other.

I don’t use it, but I friend of mine who recently joined said he didn’t understand how Trump could get elected until he joined Nextdoor and now it makes perfect sense.

After 18 years (with the last six showing major symptoms), I was finally diagnosed with cibiphobia: the fear of food. (Here is a really good Healthline description of the disorder.) It’s kinda like a combination of orthorexia and contamination OCD.

I am suggesting that it’s beyond okay and, in fact, a journalist’s job to ask tough questions. It’s okay to make your subject uncomfortable.

Yet another place I wasn’t expecting to find corn, but went ahead and ate anyway

Hillary was uniquely toxic and demonstrably incompetent at running a disciplined campaign. Hillary in a vacuum is a good public servant. Obama appointing her to State is as close as she got to demonstrating that. But she has *baggage* that she earned all on her own. That whole “most qualified nominee ever!” line they…