Well that's an unfortunate gesture. Demonstrating the transvaginal ultrasound probe, perhaps?

I HAD THE ‘57 CHEVY!

Thanks for the insight, this whole issue is very interesting.

There’s this idea that you chose to have kids, so you have a responsibility to be perfect or you should have abstained for the good of your family and society.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvr1T1…

I just realized that my experience with pop music is pretty much the inverse of this. My parents listened to what they like in the car. As a result, I know a respectable amount of 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s pop music from my mother’s love of the “golden oldies.” My dad was all about the Lite FM (Michael Bolton, Whitney…

I’m going to go with the hand print (tattoo?) on her ass.

I remember this commercial. It made an impression on me as a wee Enginerd because I was shocked that Ivana had her hands on her white pants in the last scene. Nine-year-old me knew that one’s hands are completely greasy and sauce-covered after eating lots of pizza, and those pants were likely to be ruined.

They love analogies, I’ve noticed. So clearly it’s something like, straight people had ice cream, but the [insert minority group of choice] wanted it too, so now we had to share and now less ice cream for straight people.

I HAVE THAT BOOK! I got it during one of those scholastic book catalogue promotions in elementary school. And I totally recognized the plotline when I saw The Village about 10 years later.

I’m not sure to which article from Glen Beck’s Panic Room you are referring, but there was one on that site that I found especially annoying. In that “blog post,” the author argued that accepting Caitlyn Jenner as female was an insult to femininity. I’ve seen similar arguments on other conservative blogs — somehow,…

I posted a section earlier, but this is taken from the blog post I mentioned in my original response:

He was 14, so he damn well knew better.

From the blog post I referenced earlier in this thread:

Oh, I’m sure there are some wonderful faith-based counselors. But I agree with you that given what we’ve seen of their lives, it probably wasn’t especially helpful.

Allegedly he asked for forgiveness at the time of the molestation, so when his sisters were pre-teens and younger. So yeah, they totally had a choice when mommy and daddy told them to forgive big brother because it’s what Jesus wants.

This. I read an especially frustrating fundie blogpost this morning about how Josh was “saved by the blood of the lamb” and all the usual Christian BS about Jesus forgiving sins and repenting to God. But the worst was how the author seemed to think that it wasn’t a big deal, he was a “child” who “made a mistake” and…

Had the same thought.

Ha - your story reminded me of how I came to take the plunge into shaving: I was sitting on the couch in my parents living room one summer day. I must have been about 11 or 12. My dad, sitting on the other couch in the room, suddenly said “We’re going to start calling you hairy knees now.”

Ugh, people need to realize that commenting on other people’s bodies, especially young girls, is inappropriate in the vast majority of situations. Right around the time of my original story (so age 13-14) my Aunt told me I “look great in a bathing suit.” I guess that was supposed to be a compliment, but again, I was…