Standing up straight, making facial contact (direct eye contact can be uncomfortable for some of us; sometimes turning my face to their face satisfies their need to be seen and mine not to lock eyes), and shaking hands is perfectly polite. I find it incredibly rude and patronising when people demand smiles (too street…

It is not going overboard for a parent to ask their own child for a hug or kiss, nor to stop tickling or cuddling when asked. It is acknowledgment of their bodily autonomy, and backing up word with deed. It’s hypocritical to say, “you get to be in charge of who touches your body, except when I’m the person taking that…

There’s a difference between calling her a shitty human being and for perpetuating war crimes, and being an ignorant fool calling her a bitch for “not making a deal” and “waving” while doing a job he clearly does not understand. We can do the former while recognising the latter for the vacuous bile it is.

A dude once explained to me that my uterus does not contain nerve endings, therefore cramps are all in my head because I’ve been taught to think I have them.

I do, too, but I used to work in the children’s program at a women’s shelter, so I’m not holding my breath. I’m cynical and jaded, but I think that girl is looking at a pretty shitty life filled with demands she forgive him and emotional abuse for being “stubborn”. I hope she eventually gets to a place where she’s…

What the hell is with that gaping-lipped kiss?

This is what I’ve been saying.

Although, now that I think of it, I don’t know if the person who created the petition and the people commenting on it are from the community and know who is involved, or are making the leap from “felony incest”. Her mother and grandmother are advocating for him, so she’s not exactly safe, even if he isn’t her father.

The petition to remove the judge from the bench before he can retire:

He is the parent. He probably still has custody.

He’s retiring next month.

I got, “What if your husband dies or leaves you*, and your new husband** wants kids of his own***?”

Relatedly, being shamed is not the same as feeling ashamed.

No one ever asked my husband how I felt about his having a vasectomy. I was against it, but I think they probably would have let him still do it. (In retrospect, it really was a good idea.)

And I can’t find anyone to remove my uterus. I’m 42, have two kids, my husband had a vasectomy 10+ years ago, yet they ask me how*he* feels about my ending my fertility, and what if he dies and I want more kids, and am I sure I never want more?

Don’t be stupid. The gays cause earthquakes. It’s like you’re not even listening to Pat Robertson and Westboro.

Like a sprained ankle, boy, he ain’t nothin’ to play with.

Calling a grown, self-sufficient woman a girl is sexist bullshit.