Completely off-topic, but your username is fantastic! She's my fave

Unfortunately that would need formal recognition that the victims of rapists couldn't have prevented their rapes through any action/non-action, and societal consciousness doesn't seem ready for that yet. If these women are true victims, it could happen to anyone. And if these men are rapists due to a mental component,…

My eventual goal is to own my own business, and I have worked for a few small businesses in my time; I too am scared of becoming 'payroll obsessed'. But also of unfairly hiring/not hiring people due to unconscious biases. I had a former boss at my interview tell me he only hired 'pretty girls' because we were a fast…

There is a big difference between a few cute freckles scattered over the nose and a face and arms and knees full of them.. (not that I'm bitter or anything).

The general rule of exchange between Aus and America is two sizes. Eg. I am 12 Aus, 8 American. (Some jeans places do size 9/11/13 but most brands here in Austalia stick to s/m/l or 10/12/14)

It never makes sense to me that American schools start so early. In primary school I started at 8:30, middle was 8:45, high school was 9. It's not fair to expect children to be ready and brain active earlier than we expect adults to be. It's also not fair to expect them to start so early, and carry on into the evening…

I became allergic to an asian river fish two months into living there; it took that long, eating it almost every day at lunch to finally give me a reaction. Problem is, i have no idea what it is called...
I can still eat all the aussie ocean fish, shellfish etc that I always have, so who knows!
I was already allergic to…

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Vegans have no animal by-product including eggs, milk, cheese and companies that test on animals. Vegetarians usually have a personal range of things they're comfortable with. Most usually will tell you "I eat/don't eat eggs and milk though". I personally just don't eat red meat, as I can't find any humanely sourced…

Oh wow, you really took his post personally. You really think, with all the studies they've done, that video games haven't had an impact of some sort on society that could be interpreted as negative? And you really really seem like you don't want to engage in a meaningful dialogue about why you feel differently; you…

So very true; my manager called my next of kin after not being able to get a hold of me on my day off. Not just a normal day off; an asked for and given day of unpaid leave to attend doctors appointments. After three missed calls in the space of an hour (I refused to answer them as I was in the hospital) I got a text…

She linked to a flower in a paragraph discussing flowers that look like vaginas; what were you expecting?

The scar and placement of fat around the hips suggests a tummy tuck after weight loss to remove excess hanging skin. My mum has the same.

I suppose I regard Christians as followers of Christs teaching. Who should you follow; the men who were only reacting to the world around them and trying to hang onto power by publishing a book? OR the Son of God himself who, like you said, is a pacifist. I don't trust a book of man to hold the word of God, and…

We on this site also don't think that whole groups of people should be blamed for the actions of others, and we shouldn't, as people, put down whole groups because of the actions of others.

I'm a bisexual woman, and I thought I'd offer up my awkward coming out/discovering sex story as a piece of anecdata for this.

I used to love writing stories as a kid/teen, and I love world building, but I lost the time/energy/skill in uni when my writing style had to change so dramatically to the academic. Now when I write it is just a recap of events that have already happened (as an anthropologist/student linguist) . However I've been…

I've come across a few short stories on my time roaming the web with that sort of premise. Like the reason you have to send your phone off to the factory to get it fixed is because it requires a spell to work, or that the weather satellites are actually weather witches...
I'm feeling inspired to write something myself…

It does in Australia, not sure if the American version is the same? We have a middle sometimes sealed section in each that has lots of basic info from how different genitals and breasts can look, having doctors answering sex question, to diagrams of basic sexual positions and how to get clitoral and/or g-spot…

I suppose I don't mean just as a how-to, but as an awareness thing. Like, having it there in such a prominent place provides not just the info to those who are already inclined that way, but also to those who don't experience sexual feelings for men, but haven't considered feelings for women instead. From personal…