I'm not talking about the individual. Is the issue here that male-bodied people who transitioned in to a female life want access to events solely meant for female-bodied people who chose to live life as female? Because that's silly. Guess what? Having male anatomy at birth gives you a profoundly different set of…

Trans women aren't women like women born with female anatomy are. They don't experience the same things. They are a different category and women who were born female still need their own spaces. I don't understand all this trans sympathy in the place of maintaining spaces just for women or for the gay/lesbian…

I find the whole fat-acceptance-backlash annoying and disingenuous. Every time someone dares to call bigger ladies attractive, skinny people come out of the woodwork to whine and play victims and take everything very, very personally. Do skinny girls receive hurtful comments? Yes, and that's not a good thing. But is…

And you she says the skinny girls are still "perfect from the bottom to the top". The brunette first makes an appearance as a photoshopped model, it doesn't seem to me that she's a stand in for all naturally (or not) thin girls. This isn't a thin vs. curvy argument. I feel like the media gets off on pitting one…

But at the same time, she states that if you don't like the way she looks then move along. I feel like a lot of people have been reading too much into individual phrases within the song without placing them within the greater context of the song itself. Everyone wants to be seen as attractive to the sex of their…

The most disappointing thing about this article was the lack of clues about the Yellow King.

If anyone should play at the Berlin Wall Anniversary Gig, it's the Scorpions. Wind Of Change, duh. And if we need more than one act (which we probably do), how about asking bands and artists from former Warsaw pact states whose music criticized the repressive systems they lived in? The Plastic People Of The Universe…

Your mother is right. You don't get to crowdfund your vacation. She is wrong in getting you to register for things you don't need. Cut that shit out tout de suite. But frankly, registering for a honeymoon is also registering for things you don't need.

First: animal models are by their nature inaccurate. Humans don't go into estrus.

There are precisely two primates that have sex outside of estrus - that is, at a time when reproduction is not possible - humans and bonobos. Other animals, including other primates, *only* have sex during their fertile cycle. Trying to…

In reality: no, they don't, and the evidence for this stacks up from a dozen different angles: the difference in compensation rates for sex workers and porn actors, depending on whether they're a woman having sex with men or a man having sex with women; the market success of Viagra/Cialis and the market failure of its…

Pockets. Pockets in your pants! Pockets in your dresses! Pockets in your skirts! MOTHER FLIPPIN HIDDEN NINJA POCKETS TO STORE YOUR SHIT.

If I were a man and some woman piped up with "I'm not a feminist..." I would look her in the eye and say "Excuse me. MEN are talking here" and then ignore her for the rest of the evening.

I think this is the only time I've had penis envy.

if this helps you out, cry it out doesn't mean allowing them to wail heartbroken for hours on end. It ultimately means giving themselves a few minutes to see if they can figure out how to calm themselves down. Which, really, is a life skill. Obviously you know the difference between the "something's gone terribly…

Yes on cry it out. And the thing to remember is that parenting is often about managing your priorities. Are you as a parent not getting enough sleep? Then maybe a little cry it out so your child can start to settle themselves at night will help you get more sleep and be a better parent overall. Not every decision you…

I am absolutely convinced that the leading cause of kids turning out fucked-up is moms worrying themselves half to death over whether they're doing pregnancy wrong. Stress hormones are terrible for adults, why wouldn't they be awful for unborn babies?

As long as you're not mainlining speedballs, chain-smoking, and…

I don't get the drug free birth thing. To me it seems like getting a root canal without novocaine, just to...prove we have a high pain threshold? I'm not judging, I swear to god I'm not, do whatever you want. I just don't GET it.

Here is a nonexhaustive list of reasons why I choose to watch a TV show:

Before anyone flips out, people of all diets / dietary preferences can have disordered eating patterns. When I have seen nutritionists about how to be a vegan in a healthy way (making sure I get enough protein since I lift weights, making sure I get enough lipids so I don't get homicidally hangry in the afternoon) I…

You completely missed the point of said article. Its not about NOT giving a child a choice or working through their emotions. Those are good things. Its about not giving into your child every single time.. If I think about it or my child asks before I do something, I will definitely ask which sippy cup my child…