I was interviewed for this show- a friend of mine and I found out that we were actually half sisters (my mom had given her up for adoption, I knew about it but not who, years and years later friend and I have a random conversation and oh look at that, my mysterious half sis is my friend, who I met in my 30's). We…

She’s a fucking asshole. I’m sorry for her own mental health, but that doesn’t excuse all the horrible things she did.

“He sent the message at 6:25 p.m., then told his mother he was leaving the house to visit a friend and not to expect him home for dinner. He made a short drive to a remote corner of the Fairhaven Kmart parking lot. At 6:28 p.m., he called Carter and talked to her for 43 minutes. At 7:12, she called him. The call…

I’m not objecting to making fun of Hitler, I’m objecting to making fun of a birth defect that occurs in 1 out of every 200 boys. It is simply not OK to make fun of birth defects, disabilities, scars, missing limbs, etc.

EXACTLY. (But I was just talking to my friend about this 2 days ago because of the Kesha drama, we’re in the sarcastic ‘Phil Spector was so good he should be allowed to kill at least one person’ camp).

Part of the article and much of the comments are making fun of a birth defect, and by proxy, ALL the people who have it. You may not have intended to insult innocent people with your “tiny and misshapen” comment, but with an incidence of 1/200 males affected, you’re hurting more people than you think.

The Court is NOT on Dr. Luke’s “side.” The Judge merely applied the law to the facts. As an attorney one of the hardest things to deal with are bad facts. They are what they are and we do our best to construe them most favorably to our clients but ultimately Judges have no discretion to choose a “side” they like. It’s…

The problem is that there are a bunch of very real, very alive people with this particular birth defect. They are being made fun of, e.g. “hurrr hurrr they must spray pee everywhere” in this article. That is not OK. It’s not OK to make fun of disabilities/birth defects.

Because it’s ableist and wrong. People with birth defects or prominent scarring or whatever have enough shit to deal with. It’s not right to make fun of disabilities.

vangoghsear brings up an interesting point though, and it’s one I struggle with myself. Since feminism/common human decency/anti-bullying sentiment is moving us in the direction of not making fun of a person for how they look, or how their body functions, why is it suddenly okay when the person in question is a bad…

I agree that it’s unenlightened to make fun of common congenital abnormalities, despite the atrocious human allegedly connected to this one. I also think this Jez post is suggesting that a male genital defect somehow contributes to genocidal, megalomaniacal tendencies...nope, I can’t jump on board with that either.…

But it is an important principle! If we say we are body positive except for using it as a weapon against people we disagree with, then this movement is no more right than any other in the world! People only use these kind of insults against people they don’t like anyway. If we do it too, then we are in no way better…

Wow, so making fun of birth defects is totally and 100% OK because one person who had a birth defect turned out to be a mass murderer. Lets go make fun of some downs syndrome kids and kids with cleft palates. My son had hypospadius and had to have surgery for it at six months old. Its not so funny when you’re sitting…

Was his condition that his heart is enormous? Sure sounds like it.

It’s always heartwarming when a true Christian is heard from. I am not religious, but I believe the teachings of Christ is the lessons of forgiveness. Forgiveness is what you need in your heart to look at others and understand they grieve too. To turn the other cheek, sometimes you need to see through the eyes of…

I have a hard time on a feminist blog finding a way to be anything but Team Taylor on this one. She may have an incredibly planned public persona and is annoyingly twee (can we PLEASE retire #squadgoals forever ??), but Kanye is the literal worst.

OH WAIT. THAT WAS A JOKE?

I don’t have a problem with guns in theory as I grew up around them and own several myself, but I wish we did what they do in Germany (or what they did when I lived there- someone legally challenged it and I’m not sure what’s happened since). All firearms are registered, and someone from the local registry is required…

Be hysterical and overprotective, it’s your kid! And any rational gun owner should be okay with your requests. We have a handgun (always unloaded, in a heavy safe that only my husband and I can access) and two little girls. It’s now common to ask “Is there a gun in the house?” when setting up playdates. I always…