And Hep A in indigent populations! My local clinic was doing a free Hep B series a few years ago, I was like sign me the hell up!

I feel that. Until I had an experience with an STI and then I really regretted some stuff. Life goes on of course. People w/ acute or even chronic STIs are still people and a lot of people have them and manage them.

There are other infections besides HIV/AIDS - not life threatening, but not fun, and some lifelong chronic infections. Viral STIs can be transferred even *with* condom use. So while I want people to be liberated, satisfied, creative and curious in their sex lives, having contact with a dozen people who have had…

I can’t handle a lot of these responses. Yes, across cultures we have some FUCKED UP ideas about which person in which role can physically assault someone in what context but really, the truth is no one should hit anyone ever. Why is it ok for this woman to hit her child in this situation, because of her youth,…

I have so much art that I keep several prints in one frame just because storage is a pain in the ass - I can easily take them down and rotate images, good call.

I live in the sticks and it makes me lol that you’d probably be afraid to go into the mom-and-pops here in Wrong Turn too. I loved my corner store when I lived in a real city, I never fucked with McDonalds for my bacon egg cheese. And I was a baby hayseed of 18 who had never lived anywhere but the holler her whole…

Thank you, that’s a great source!

I have no idea what overhead costs so I can’t speak to that, but I do see how you are viewing it. Maybe someone who is more informed of that side of it can chime in? But lower ratios are preferable though, don’t you think? More attention per child is safer and more nurturing.

Absolutely agree with that viewpoint as well! I really feel it should be government subsidized, like a lot of other countries already do.

Child care should cost a lot because caring for another person’s child is an incredibly stressful job and I’m sure facilities, and maybe private individuals, pay through the nose for insurance because Glob knows we live in a litigious society. Everyone says that being a parent is the most amazing, difficult, and…

I was very lazy and made chicken soup in the crock pot, with a can of cream of chicken soup and basic veggies. It was pretty good in a preservative-heavy way.

I think the article addressed this - girls are likely to read a book regardless of the target gender/protagonist gender but boys are highly likely to exclusively read male marketed books. So girls already do this while boys do not.

Ramona is by Beverly Cleary

Parents just don’t understand how terrifying clowns are to small children. Kids are busy processing information all day long how to differentiate real vs. fantasy, what rules the world operates on, etc, and I feel like I was always getting scolded for day dreaming or being dramatic or impractical or not understanding…

Really? Well everyone gets to believe what they like, I think it makes more sense than most religions but to each their own!

I finally embraced atheism this year and to be honest, I think believing in aliens and reincarnation gives me more warm fuzzies than years of Catholic mass ever did. I love the idea of a soul group! I hope the rest of my lives are spent with different versions of my dear ones, endlessly going through all the rituals…

I think it’s fucking brilliant that she’s apparently facing the whole snake thing head on, instead of keeping her pert little nose in the air as per her typical ice queen style. It certainly has me more interested than I would be otherwise.

lol

Speaking from the cold dead heart of the opioid crisis (WV) people do hard drugs because their life fucking sucks and they feel so empty they can’t stand to not be high as fuck. So maybe start there.

It’s really just an excuse to crack on Jez/feminists/women. A man is abusing his position of power to intimidate a young women dependent on staying in his good graces into a sexual relationship, something that anyone worth a fuck would not want for their own child to experience, so honestly he deserves being called…