30 years ago. Science has marched on since then. The AMA is trying to tell you this. Blood can now be screened for all kinds of stuff that they couldn't screen for in the 80s.

I posted this for the celebrity stories submissions in April, but it's germane here too:

I don't have anything against men, but today's ruling has got me so agitated that I might slug a guy in the throat if he got in my face. The highest court in the US has thrown slightly more than half the population under the bus today, has declared they are not as fully human as a goddamned business's feelings; I feel…

Well, firstly, LYSISTRATA.

I've been fighting to have my reproductive choices respected for a over decade, just as a woman who doesn't want to have kids. No legal analysis in the world will convince me that this is not the first step in a much broader rolling back of my civil rights, because I've been watching it happen bit by bit for so long,…

Let's get something fucking straight.

I simply expect that when my doctor prescribes me a medication that is tested and approved, be it as used as birth control or as hormonal therapy for my PCOS, that the insurance company pays for it. It is part of my compensation package and it is between myself and my medical professional to determine which course of…

We get it....everyone who doesn't have sex with you is a whore.

1) I love your assumption that the only people using birth control are having lots of anonymous sex. And aren't, you know, like married women only having sex with one guy.

It's called health insurance, it is part of an employee's compensation, and this ruling is specifically discriminatory to women;

Does your employer provide health care? Then you're entitled to legal medications to maintain your health. End of motherfucking story.

Straight guys really need to figure out that most of them are gross and boring...why would I bother?

I had a conversation with a former co-worker of mine. He was a die hard Republican right wing fascist. He knew my family was from Sweden. We were talking about various countries and the political climate in each. I mentioned that there is a country that is trying to get one religion and only that religion to be…

Yeah don't worry: this person is an asshole.

Straight woman here, a few years ago a friend of mine came to me and asked me to take his virginity. He was 22, we talked about it, he was ready, and he wanted it to be with someone he could trust, so I was honored and the deed was done. We became "friends with benefits" on and off for a couple of years. I developed a…

Omigawd I hope they also realize exactly how adorable they're making themselves in the process.

I worked part-time for a software company doing data entry a couple of summers ago. They made me come in everyday (even though the job could have been done remotely) and then rode my ass when I was few minutes late, even though they knew I had to rely on public transit (because I couldn't get a parking pass for the…

I worked for three years in a ROWE environment. It was fantastic. You still had to be there for core hours (for meetings & such) but it was otherwise focused on results and no hand holding. A Megacorp bought out that company and did layoffs, so I had to take the first job opportunity that came up. It was at a…

Or do what I do - don't go. I'm not likely to ever get married now, so I'm no longer going to subject myself to the torture of other people's weddings, for example.