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He can treat my ebola any time.

As someone who works as an atty for abused women and kids (and occasionally men)....DVOs often are a very bad idea because they can trigger men like this too kill. A man with this mindset views it as an insult/ultimatum/etc. They almost never stop a man like this one.

I have thought long and hard about this piece. The author's story is powerful. I agree fully with everything the author says about the terrible damage we do to children by enforcing the gender binary, I agree with everything they say about how the kind of conventional masculinity that our society demands of men is…

I just think Terry Crews is the most delightful person, and that opinion is compounded every time I watch him in an interview. I even love the way they initially cast him in Brooklyn 99, which is as a sergeant who has to stop working in the field for a while because he gets panic attacks at the thought of dying and…

The Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences has invited people to write in on the matter at http://as.virginia.edu/contact-arts-s…. Specifically:

Brown went on to be a principal as a college graduate.

You know it's a good joke if you stole it from a Garfield comic.

Haha ditto!

Having an opinion and expressing it to the mom-to-be are two very different things. I have a right to think it's stupid and dangerous as fuck to have a home birth in the middle of winter in Massachusetts when the nearest hospital is 30+ minutes away, with only a midwife present (something an acquaintance of mine is…

I love birth stories. I don't have children. Different strokes and what not.

Um, actually it's not about his penis. It's about ethics in journalism.

It's the ghost of the band Puddle of Mudd.

Indeed, it's also pretty common for the guilty to write long screeds about how they aren't guilty and to go around telling everyone they can about how not guilty they are because that's what they *think* an Innocent person would do.
(I've experienced this first hand from rapists who went out of their way to try and…

Also, fuck this guy for trying to claim this as BDSM. BDSM is all about consent and comfort of your partner. You never punch someone in the face as soon as they walk in the door without prior consent or discussion (I am not saying this as a joke). I'm so sick of people claiming unwanted violence as sexual kink. …

Ah, what a lovely society we live in where not touching people you don't want to touch makes you socially inept. No rape culture here people, nothing to see here.

I have an almost disproportionate hatred of the Mercator projection. In my native land we dismissed it as ridiculous and laughable and used pretty much any other one, but here's it's the default.

Ugh, can men collectively stop with the worshipping of mom's food? Yeah, I like my mother's cooking the best, too, she's kickass and I was raised on it, so of course I have a preference for it. But fucking complaining and demanding that another woman cook like your mom and basically whining about how she's better than…

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