See, "Abortion does not compute with my philosophy" would be just fine as long she understood that her personal philosophy has fuck all to do with whether or not a medical procedure should be legal, but I'm guessing that's not the case. I mean, hell, vaginoplasty and Botox don't "compute with my philosophy," but I'm…

I've actually had better service on Southwest and the late ATA for $69 than I've had on Delta and United for three times that.

Except a rather large chunk of the ASD community hate Autism Speaks for treating them like they are diseased.

This is cool. Not everyone has time to look fit or whatever. Some people do have time, but would rather do other things. Some people have tried to make time, but don't want to eat what is necessary to get whatever their intended results are. Some people don't have time to shop for the necessary groceries. There are a…

Totally! Her whole gimmick is, "My hobby is exercising and therefore I'm superior to everyone whose hobby is volunteering or learning Mandarin." Same with a vocal minority of the fat acceptance people who go, "Anyone on a diet is a traitor to themselves and guilty of reinforcing unhealthy beauty standards." You can't…

I think I'm just too weary and lazy at this point to really hate my body. Sure, if I put some effort into it, I can hate every single square inch of my body, from my cartoonishly big boobs to my absolutely stupid little toes and my outrageously awful upper arms. But you know what? Fuck it. I can't change it. I have…

Some one needs to sit down that young lady and have a serious talk...

Jezebel is not a safe space for men talking about their experiences with rape. I'm not sure that it has to be or should be, but it's most definitely not.

This guy happens to be a part of my social circle. I'm very happy and very proud that if somebody I know was going to do something that went viral... that this is what it is.

this ruined the video for me. why did he add this in? is he seriously trying to suggest that people are appropriately appaled [sic] by rape towards women and yet laugh at men who suffer the same?

Oooof. This hits really close to home. A few years ago, I went through a period where nearly every man I dated had some story about the much-older woman he had sex with while he was a very young teen. On the surface, it was always told as a tale of their virility and impressive masculinity, a story meant to make me…

While I do not know the case here, some step-parents are just as much (or more) "parents" than the biological parents. I am a step mother to kids who are with me and their father 95% of the time, and their biological mother isn't super involved in their lives. In every measure of parenthood besides biology *I* am…

I can't decide if this is a serious post or not. "It's not your place"?!??!? For real? Who are these children who apparently don't ever leave the home, consume any media, have any friends? How is it the parents are the only source of any info for these children you have birthed/reared/not-reared? Do work out your…

What was shared didn't imply any of the assumptions you made about it—all she said is that she made a statement to her fiancé's child. And you assumed that she doesn't have a defined social contract with her fiancé, OR the mother of the 12-year-old in question. Which, in my opinion, was neither stated nor implied.

You say that because she's only the fiancee, she can't possibly have an organic relationship with the child, and you also implied that her relationship with the child (and fiance) is dictated by society thrusting her into the auto-parent role when it's entirely possibly (and maybe even likely) that she and her partner…

You are making a lot of assumptions about how my family works and what boundaries we have/have not negotiated internally.

Well, we're engaged, so I do participate in raising the kids. Also, I never specified or even implied what my partner does/doesn't teach them, so please don't make assumptions about whether or not he's "stepping up."

The rapist is probably going to walk out anyway. Mine did. After a decade or so of molesting every child he could get his hands on and raping as many of them as he could, the guy I helped arrest pled down before worse cases than mine could be brought on board. He did two years. He's not on the registry. I checked.

I have very conflicting feelings about this.

Yeah, not just that she said job, but that she refused to accept that the word job connotes responsibility — it went pretty quickly from "you worded that poorly, is this what you meant" / "language matters" to her proclaiming she'd been piled on.