I think it’s a test to see if they can discriminate against other groups of people and get away with it. Trans people are such a small population and so marginalized they figured they would start there. Maybe they’ll also try to rout women and Muslims (more than they already do). I wish I could say hey, I think…

A restriction on women serving will probably come after the reinstatement of DADT. We’re on the fast track to Gilead.

T7FFIN, must be a troll. No one who reads Jezebel can be this repressed and clueless.

I don’t have kids, but most of my girlfriends do, and we were all having coffee the other day when one of the ladies brought up the fact that her three year old had been totally unselfconsciously masturbating wherever and whenever she felt like it — and that my friend was still trying to figure out how to talk to her…

In reference to the edginess of talking about vaginas - the one thing that seems to not be edgy is selling products meant to “treat” some alleged dysfunction of your vagina. What’s bothering me even more about it lately is that some of these companies seem to have shifted their message to seem science-y. It’s bad…

Looking back, one of the unintentionally saddest things my mother ever told me was not to read romance novels because they’ll only result in my (presumably married) sex life being disappointing in comparison.

Yup, even with the best care, this cancer takes out about 90% of diagnosed patients within 18 months. There is an incredibly slim chance he will make it. He does have good genes, as far as that goes — the grandmother Meghan mentions in her statement is John’s mother, who is 102 or so and still quite alive.

I’m beginning to think our president has no fucking clue what he’s doing.

Almost all the bullies I knew in school were girls.

It’s the Republican “everything he did was fine until he came for me and mine” logic.

Their original plan was to lower taxes on the rich.

Can I throw up now? Why don’t we just build a time machine and go back to pre-Dickens London, where urchins begged in the streets and people worked 60 to 80 hour weeks for low wages in terrible and often dangerous conditions, so men like Trump could live in wealth and comfort, and did not have to work hard…

UK Update:

After my time in the Family Court trenches, I refer to it as “Difficult Woman (NOS).” It is a highly politicized/gendered diagnosis. Not that I’m unwilling to believe it’s a real thing as much as ~are you paranoid when someone is out to get you~? If all the symptoms are normal responses to a traumatic and controlling…

Short Creek is a pretty good example of how the FLDS plays. They own the police forces, utility services, and county officials in and around their compounds. Non-FLDS are pushed out or prevented from buying homes. Leaders collect heavy tithes from the working men and women of the town and also scam off government aid…

I get those two confused all the time, like the time I thought I had descended to the depths of Hell, but was only stuck in the DMV when their computer *and* A/C went down.

Can confirm. My place of employment is running the place into the ground because the higher ups keep hiring people they either 1) know, or 2) owe a favor. And all of these people hired on don’t know what the hell they’re doing. If this is a common thing like I’m starting to think it is, I’m surprised business stay…

Actually, this is how so most businesses are run. They are not tight ships. Upper management is usually a hotbed of nepotism. That’s why few survive being passed down to the founder’s clueless children.

I’m glad the guy is still alive so that maybe there’s a slim chance he will see need, first hand, for better gun control and is still in a position to do something about it. One can hope.