I experienced a similar situation as an assistant editor of a fledgling health-through-martial-arts magazine in the 90s. When I was piped aboard, I was told that every issue has a centerfold celebrating female martial artists. Looking through the magazine back issues, I noticed that each female martial artist…

They can’t tell the distinction between those two completely different situations because they’re blind to women’s agency. You don’t worry what an object thinks about its state of being because it is there for you to look at.

Pretty sure you have to specifically tick a box saying you are cool with it. At least I remember they specifically asked me about it and I had to actually sign paperwork. It was only like two pages and I read through it in like ten minutes.

Scientology is like your immature ex, who trashes you to everyone after you break up with them for being such a dick.

Ew. Why would you want to do this? Isn’t the keepsake the baby? Your memories? Why do you need to turn your breastmilk into a pendent?

scientology is like if mean girls and jonestown had a baby.

Scien-melancholy

Leah is lucky. When she left, I believe the whole family went with her - her husband, her mother, etc. They left as a group. There are so many of them that lost their parents, their spouses, their kids, when they left. At least she still has an intact family unit.

Seriously, good for her. It is super super hard to get out of a cult and to not only do that but then talk about it publicly is a giant fuck you. Nicely done Leah.

Any place that has their own way of using language, their own unique vocabulary, especially replacing strongly negative words with softer sounding euphemisms, is generally a place to stay away from.

This is awesome and so accurate. The popularity of research into “resilience” has gotten a ton of traction in recent years, but the truth is it shakes out to be another way to blame cycles of poverty on impoverished individuals rather than the institutions and power dynamics holding them back in the first place.

Here at Gawker Media we call that a copy editor.

I had a meniscus repair on my right knee 14 years ago that did horrible things to my gait and the alignment of my leg. I regret that surgery. I ended up with an ugly bunion on my right foot and ended up having to have knee replacement surgery anyway. I still have the ugly ass bunion.

Yeah. A certain percentage of married people get divorced.

It’s the same deal for the post-operative “regret” that transgender people may or may not experience. Just like with abortion, the number of people that experience “regret” are grossly overestimated by groups against transgender individuals transitioning. They claim the surgery shouldn’t be an option. This, however,…

I see where you’re going with that, but, at the same time, there are actually quite a few medical procedures (some prostrate cancer treatments, some heart disease treatments, any procedure that results in infertility, etc.) which are associated with fairly significant levels of treatment regret. Abortion just isn’t…

I don’t regret mine. Especially since I ended my relationship with my ex and finally realized how abusive and controlling he was (told me he’d never marry me until I was less than 130 pounds. He monitored everything I ate and the 80 lbs I lost in the span of a few months still wasn’t enough for him). I don’t regret…

Can we talk about how that bloated link pimping affiliation has ruined Kinja?

I think it’s more: buy the coffee shop, sell off all but one espresso machine, cut staff to one per shift and demand they work off the clock to clean and prep, limit supplies to the minimum used per day, then whine and bitch and complain about how lazy employees are when the shop closes, file for bankruptcy, and sail…

It means stabbing the barista and robbing the till.