When something is that ingrained within your upbringing it is very, very difficult to escape. If “just leaving” was that easy, no one would stay with abusive spouses or remain in contact with abusive parents.

I am so torn about this. The girls (Jill, Jessa, and the other kids) have very few options open to them going forward because they were raised in a cult and are taught to be subservient and that their own beliefs and wants don’t matter. With no real options, I can’t really begrudge their doing this and I just hope…

So much this. I was always pro-choice, but I can distinctly remember two instances in my pregnancy - one as I was throwing up everything I’d eaten all day after having to bolt from the dinner table, and the other as I was on doctor’s appointment number four for the week (while starving, because thanks gestational…

So you’re saying you made a well thought out, reasonable decision about your health and your body; the people responsible for it did not judge or subject you to their personal bias; and your supportive partner was there for you and cared for you before, during and after.

I don’t know if this was covered elsewhere today or not but it made my day:

aaliyah wants nothing to do with you, stacey.

I had such a huge Sarah Brightman phase as a pre-teen. Why my parents didn’t suspect then that I was gay, I’ll never know...

TFW you realize you married Andrew Lloyd Webber

tfw ur girlfriend is sexy on the television and u cant touch her

Man, that’s good art.

“JEAH!” The man, it turns out, is Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte. “JEAH JEAH JEAH!”

No kidding. The brand of pro-life these people push reduces women’s bodies to objects that the women themselves have no autonomy over. Fuck that noise, that’s about as anti-woman as you can get.

Early 90s Barbie, you say? This shit was my JAM:

Or the ever clever “you’re one of my favorite children”

‘Your my favorite second to last child, ISN’T THAT ENOUGH FOR YOU?!’

Coldplay is playing the Super Bowl

Clearly her favorite son is Scott