Yeah! I was torn between "Awwww, so cutes!" and clutching my chest and cringing at how the jerky feeding and flailing claws would feel.

What if said friend insisted on constantly listening to Nickleback?

Clearly there is one real issue:

The modern-day Rhett Butler and Scarlet O'Hara. Epic jerks that deserve each other.

Clap! Clap! Clap!

I agree! I had a planned C-section and it wasn't a bad recovery—it's the poor ladies who start/try vaginally and the. Have the emergency C who get the worst of both worlds.

But C-sections that the women survive are much, much more recent. Like when we learned about germs and antibiotics and such.

A former student of mine told our class he was adopted. Someone asked him "aren't you bummed out that your parents didn't want you?" And he said "nah—because I'm adopted I'm the only one in here who does know his parents wanted him."

Whatever happened to you sounds awful.

But by some of your previous logic, your relatives should have just adopted rather than getting donor DNA from you...

But so is a lot of adoption—adoption is not like going to an animal shelter. It can take years, even if you are willing to take older/challenged kids, and it isn't free. Also, the article mentioned that varying adoption laws and requirements are a driving force.

One jerk tripped me down a flight of stairs when I wouldn't talk to him. And the public transit erections. So many unwelcome penises....

Clowns terrify me. I'm minorly convinced that you were killed by the sex clown and he is typing the story while wearing your skin.

Or really, it's ok to be a ho (you might get a rich man!) but DONT LOOK LIKE A SEXUAL PERSON!

If avoiding implying that your students make you think of hookers directly to the students, especially with a movie older than they are is "do it all right" than almost every teacher *is* doing so. I'm a teacher—I have never once told a student that he/she looks like a sex worker. I have had to talk with students…

I think you forgot to tell us all to get off your lawn too. "Every high school kid is singing a song that would make a sailor blush" and the radio is "way too loud."

I completely agree—I teach and other staff talk about how it's our job to prepare kids to be "professional." But that means a hundred different things, and they are adolescents! They should be dressed for the temperature in things that are safe and they feel comfortable in. If their clothes are distracting THEMSELVES…

Such a great point! And she ended up totally trading up on her job from the conventional viewpoint—from hooker to presumably about to be trophy wife, so she dressed perfectly!

I call those "vestigial pockets" and they fill me with rage.

I was meaning that rape culture in general as well as conservative upbringings/values (including victim blaming, women should be good/pretty, men have urges, etc.) cause some people (women and men) to sort of embrace it in a weird way to feel empowered, not just Fox News. Fox News is a symptom, not the initial factor.