Am I the only one who finds average student loan debt to be low? Or all they including all the millennials with $0 in debt because of family and/or scholarships into the average? Because $37,712 sounds super low to me. I had over $50,000 in student loans when I graduated and my fiance had a 6 figure debt. Who gets to…

I’ve given up hope - what little I had - that the current administration can be swayed from any of their plans, no matter how terrible. I’ve also given up hope that supporters of the current administration have any care for facts. I’m just going to keep making my monthly donations to NPR and Planned Parenthood and…

I feel like this is almost ingrained into American culture. In American culture, the first reaction to ANY medical problem is to just shake it off. I know people who have been in car accidents who refused medical attention because “they’re probably fine” and can shake it off.

I don’t know, I mean except to save the life of the baby,...

Stuff like this really makes me afraid to be pregnant at any point in the future. The idea that simply by being pregnant I somehow must relinquish some of my rights to make my own decisions about my body and family... 

I asked my general physician if the medical group was a religious one. The answer was no. But they…

I had the same experience the first time I got the flu shot. I got sick so fast and was generally sick for that whole winter. I always thought it was a bad reaction to the flu shot. That was almost a decade ago. I never got the flu shot again until this year. Here I am, more than a week later. I feel fine. I proved…

I got the flu shot Monday last week. I’m sorry I was so late. I have a very intense fear of needles. When my doctor asked if I wanted the shot, I went on about fears and if I have to and the last time (and only time) I got the flu shot I had a terrible reaction. She didn’t put up a fight and I walked away without the…

I’m so afraid this is going to happen to me and my fiance. He has a pretty big fear of needles and refuses.

These are good points. The last time I saw my doctor, I asked her questions about abortion because all this shit was scaring me. I wanted to make sure I had the knowledge I needed in case of an emergency. She told me that if I wanted an abortion, I couldn’t go through the medical group. While they are not religiously…

I had to stop listening to them discussing this on NPR. I was just so mad. What is hospital or clinic supposed to do if they need to hire someone specifically to perform abortions? Literally, that’s the job. Will they be forced not to ask that question in interviews and just have to hope the person they hired isn’t…

omg this scene. I still don’t know what to think. He looks far thicker than I felt he looked in the first movie. But maybe all that black is just super slimming. The more I look at that picture, the more I wonder if they didn’t do some movie magic to make him look larger.

Why not have a ridesharing like that where rides are either only for women or only for men? Then everyone is happy?

While I get it, a separate service for just once gender when there is not one for the other always makes me a little uncomfortable. It reminds me of a story I covered in college on the college police…

I have to admit, I was excited for the idea of returning to the moon. Frankly, I’ll probably continue to be a little excited because I love anything to do with space. But I’m also a little disappointed, because discovering even more about space would be even better. I’d love to know more about Titan and Europa! I…

I recently heard a very good piece on NPR talking about “POC appropriating other POC” as they put it. It was very interesting, but the last story makes me think of your situation. This person was half Chinese and did not physically look Chinese. When she was a teenager, she wore a Chinese dress that used to be her…

I sympathize with Doesn’t Hate But Can Sometimes Be Stupid.

Did I miss something? Does the continent of Africa somehow not have any wind nor any sun? I get that wind and solar energy can be more expensive NOW, but the technology is improving and getting cheaper, while fossil fuels are only going to get more expensive to access. Just from a financial perspective, it seems like…

That’s not even the craziest part to me. It’s that open fire fumes are somehow supposed to be worse than the crap coming out of fossil fuel plants. Ask that same girl what she’d rather breath if she had to choose between the air around a coal burning power plant and the air around an open fire. I bet she doesn’t mind…

If a heartbeat = life, why do we have CPR? I mean, they’re already dead since they don’t have a heartbeat, right? What about people getting a heart replacement? Are they dead during the period of time when their heart is removed? What about someone who is brain dead? Are they actually still alive because their heart…

I actually brought up the abortion issue to my doctor at my last visit. As in, if I needed an abortion and it was illegal, could she refer me to someone in Canada. I feel like I need an emergency plan.

I’m not sure if this counts or not, my I’m sure it was headed down the road of harassment if it wasn’t already. An employee of a vendor we were working with at an old job would have to work with me a lot. When we worked together, he would just stare at my chest. It’s not like I was wearing low cut shirts or am well…