Love your enemy. Take care of the log in your own eye before criticizing the splinter in your brother's eye. Let he who hasn't sinned cast the first stone. For I am the way, the light, and the truth, and none shall get into heaven, but through me.

This reminds me of my mother's horror story from the mid seventies. She went to her assigned physician at Kaiser and asked for the pill because her dysmenorrhea was causing her to lose all of her sick days and personal days to severe menstrual pain. He told her he was Catholic, so he wouldn't prescribe her the drug IN…

I dumped my obgyn because I asked her opinion on the Texas abortion legislation. On top of really condescending remarks, she cut me off when I said "If a woman has to have an abortion..." and told me "If she CHOOSES to have an abortion." Apparently my ex-doctor refuses to admit that sometimes it is a medical…

And Jesus is SUCH a Mary Sue.

There's a book version of this, which while maybe not the best thing written ever, does a BRILLIANT job of point out how arbitrary gender roles really are. It's called Egalia's Daughters, by Gerd Brantenberg, and every goddamn human being should read it at least once.

These pictures of kids reading to shelter cats will make you want to go out and adopt all of the cats.

I'm not sure what hate you see being thrown her way (I haven't been following this closely). I can see why people may argue her opinions aren't necessarily homophobic.

Really, Palin should be pro-choice, because the right to choose has given her great personal satisfaction. Without the right to choose, what she and Bristol did would not have been choosing not to have an abortion, but merely following the law. And then she couldn't be all smug about it like she is now, which would be…

agreed. it's not fair that the child/victim is basically required to age to realize what happened was abuse(if they didn't already) or to even be deemed credible...making most cases outside of that limitations statute. the fuck is wrong with people?
I was molested by my 8th grade science teacher...when I turned him in,…

I'm a dude. I'm a bro and a bro-in-law. I had friends in frats growing up. I like boobs and all the concomitant stuff to being a cis-het guy in his mid-30's in 2014.

I'm standing up to say, i am fucking sick of rape jokes, or jokey rape references, or douchey internet rape threats, or generally making fun of…

jeez, 'any untreated, run of the mill mental illness'...?

I believe I can translate:

It's the same thing though, right? "You'll never take me alive".

I needed this. Lost an old friend friday night (fatally hit by a car in Ybor).

First, why should abortions be covered by health insurance (when pregnancy isn't from rape/incest or a danger to the mother's health)?

No, no, no. Signing a form saying "I object on religious grounds" does not begin the process. The process has already begun. And since this is not a theocracy, simply working for a religiously-affiliated organization that doesn't want to cover birth control means that they don't have to cover it, not that because of…

As someone raised Catholic in the Bible Belt, at least two of those (and possibly all three) wouldn't even be considered "Christian" by most evangelicals.

I don't know. I think the genuinely awful people incite those who are less hateful to be like "Well, he kind of has a point." and that allows their own, less aggressive hateful thoughts to have a cozy place to get ingrained. (Which is why, incidentally, I think, why the media really isn't talking about his comments on…

I actually prefer that genuinely awful people like this should be openly hateful because at least we know what we're dealing with; and we can properly decide how we want to associate with them(positively or negatively). Personal private hate is still hate, those factors will still affect how they interact with others.…

I would vote to restrict baby talk to actual babies, or cute animals. Because I think it's a reflex to use a stupid voice to dogs and cats that are ssssooo kyooot! (Sorry I started baby-typing just thinking about cute animals.)