An indie makeup company just released a Baba Yaga blush this morning. The timing of the release on the same day as the results of the poll is actually complete synchronicity since it’s part of their Halloween collection that was developed and scheduled for today a while ago, but I feel like I should mention it anyway.

i’m going to need everyone to stop reminding me that Roseanne supported Trump, because i’ve been binge watching Roseanne on Prime for the last couple of weeks and that show was both brilliant and feminist AF (i know, i know - i won’t hit that last season for a little while yet)

Yeah this is completely fucked.

The difference there is that those activities only put the person doing them at risk. Getting a broken leg in a skiing accident is not the same as spreading STIs (ones that PrEP doesn’t work on!) around your community via unprotected sex. If just one guy at one of these parties has chlamydia, it could spread to most…

No STI is a picnic - I’ve had several surgeries to remove pre-cancerous lesions due to HPV, and it sucks - I’m just saying that people who attend a sex party are adults who know the risks. Attendance isn’t mandatory; people who are worried about contracting an STI don’t go to a sex party for the same reason people who…

I’m fascinated by news I hear trickling out of senior homes about the rising rate of HepC. We as a culture are going to get fucked by our livers.

I mean yes, people can totally go get shit faced for cheap.

First, this is a fine written piece, but I take issue with the author in some places, and with some of the people I feel we’re supposed to sympathize with. First, it could have used much less of the author self insertion to reaffirm his own level of attractiveness. We get it, you’re hot.

I hope you don’t get a medical…

I’m gay. I’m not a prude. This is gross.

can you cut and paste where I said hitting kids was ok? like verbatim?

Sorry, but you can grab the widest brush on the planet and paint people who hit their kids as child abusers. Sorry you don’t like it and that it somehow interferes with your view of your parents (it shouldn’t, but that’s on you). Hitting adults is called assault and battery and punishable crimes in 50 states. That you…

I read her own story as acknowledging the complexities, but I didn’t read it as a clear argument that CPS did something wrong in her case. She believes that with more assistance and more clarity from CPS, she could have been reunified sooner. But she also acknowledges that she reacted in harsh, scary ways and the…

Respectfully what part of OMG!PONIES! statements bothers you? I ask with no hidden intentions or desire to fight, just a desire to understand your perspective?

Hitting a two year old ONCE with a belt is one time too many.

And hitting a toddler with a belt is also child abuse and a person who hits a toddler with a belt deserves to be in jail.

Did your parents hit you with a belt? If so, they are child abusers.

“So many parents i worked with had hit their kid by throwing a sandal or hitting a kid with a belt. My parents did as well. Are they criminals, absolutely not.”

As an abuse survivor, screw both of these women. The one with the five kids who says her kids were not harmed, that’s b.s even if all they did was watch or hear their Mom being beaten: it’s terrifying, nothing is safe coming from the people in the world you should be able to count on to make you feel safe. If you have…

“Are they criminals?”