My wife was on the pill when I met her and she didn’t suffer any side-effects other than occasional migraines (which sounds bad enough to me). When she decided that she should stop taking the pill, as the migraines became more frequent, I went for a vasectomy. Now, here’s where it gets really interesting...

Trying to squash vaccine hesitancy is useful and potentially life saving. Giving a valid comparison to show how miniscule these #’s are is also useful.

“The difference is that oral contraceptives have 40+ years of testing and approvals across a variety of similar formulation”

I just dont understand why the universal pause instead of just pausing for women? If a man and a women show up for their appointment and you have a moderna and a j&j, just give the j&j to the man and the moderna to the lady. J&J is still a really small part of the available supply, so we arent currently talking about…

like Colbert said, they see fetuses as collectibles--once they’re out of their wrappers, they lose all value

so I assume all the dudes and right-to-lifers who made this legislation happen are busily working on establishing a comprehensive tax-covered support network that any parent of a child born with Downs Syndrome can access for the lifetime of help they’ll probably need? LOL just kidding, I know that’s not happening,…

I feel like it’s a weird blind spot for Dan not to point out that coming out of the closet is difficult and stressful even in the best of circumstances. I grew up in a progressive part of the country in an extended family with tons of openly gay people and a very supportive close family, and I didn’t come out until…

“Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me” is not victim-blaming.

Also, if you see HUNG as a victim, then by definition you see Dude as behaving a good deal more shamefully than just some sluttiness.

A time and place to meet, and then a time and place to meet if you failed to meet in the first time and place, and then...

Write the letter, but don’t send it. There is nothing good that’s going to come out of sending it. You’re right; the best case scenario is that she gets no reply.

I get it. But if you’re pro choice, you’re pro choice, regardless of reason. I don’t care if someone has an abortion because they don’t want or couldn’t handle a special needs child (personally I think that’s fair, not everyone is equipped to handle that - emotionally or financially), or they use abortions as birth…

I am so conflicted on this. I dedicated my life to supporting people with disabilities. So to hear about people wanting to have an abortion due to a Down syndrome diagnosis is painful.

I thought the same thing. I would never advise anyone to re-open communication with a shitty ex, the truth is, there’s nothing that he can say anyway that makes up for how he behaved.

I don’t think LW#1 should write her ex a letter. Sure, it might feel good to give him a piece of her mind, and I guess there’s a non-zero chance that it will make him feel badly about how he treated her. But by and large, terrible exes don’t just morph into thoughtful people a year (and one new boyfriend) later. If…

I mean, if you like?

But it seems a little more on the side of trying to get someone to take responsibility for their own dodgy decision-making.

What would your advice be? Because if it isn’t some variation of “You keep sleeping with a jerk! If that upsets you, stop sleeping with this jerk!” I don’t think it’ll be very…

NBC is trying real hard to both sides this shit, and while this excuse might’ve had a shred of plausibility if this was a poorly trained rookie two weeks on the job, it’s total bullshit when we’re talking about a 26-year veteran.

There are some pretty problematic parts of the third book (nothing like the first book) he asks her to be his mistress and then when she refuses he blackmails her into going to his mothers house where he installs her as a ladies maid for his sisters (which is a really nice and safe job, but no free will).
I think it…

They feel completely different in material and in weight. The gun is more than likely 3 to 4 times heavier than a gun and looks completely different

I remember my dad sitting down the week before any vacation with his road atlas, writing directions in a little notebook that he kept in his cup holder. I also remember him unfolding roadmaps on the dashboard of our station wagon if, for example, we were stuck in traffic and he wanted to take a detour.

In the days before GPS was widely used, people had to rely on things like “paper maps” and “directions” to get places, even places they had visited once before. It had something to do with onions and bees, I think.