I took a dance class with this amazing plus-size lady who could not only dance me off my feet, I couldn’t even keep up with her in warmups! “Just 20 more crunches!” she’d chirp while I contemplated never moving again.

What is this insanity! We don’t legislate MEN’S bodies!

Mr. Bells never HAD a birth certificate, because he was born in Guatemala, during the 1976 earthquake. Documenting newborns wasn’t the highest priority at the time. The amazing thing is, I don’t even know how he was able to get all of his other documents; he had a passport, a SSN, and a driver’s license, but he didn’t…

Yeah I’m not sure why people thought my point was that abortion was illegal. It’s often not accessible, was what I was going for.

Well, I mean, they’re technically legal everywhere. But in practice there’s so many restrictions on them that they’re not necessarily accessible. But I know you know that. Although I will admit I am not familiar with the current state of abortion access in Illinois.

So, if you get raped by a stranger, don’t abort the baby because that’s bad, but we won’t acknowledge its existence when it’s born, either.

I actually met mine in person! I somehow met the owners of the BBS, and they knew the guy, and we met once at a party or something at their house. He was 30-something and married, I think. Some people made some jokes about us getting married, I died of embarrassment, and never talked to him again.

My brain parses the 3 as a super-long “e” sound, so in my head it was “ar-TEEEEEEE-miss”

It’s a really fun read, but it’s a straight adolescent wish-fulfillment fantasy. Which is really Spielberg’s thing.

Shaky-cam never bothered me before this movie, but for some reason I’ve never been able to get through this whole film. Not in the theater, and not at home. The longest I’ve been able to watch it is the point where they get out of the subway and through the darkened department store, and then I’m too nauseated to…

Do we have to choose just one, though? Or is “both” an option?

I have already posted my 80's hair at least once. Let’s just say frizzy curls did NOT go well with the short-layer-mullet thing that was so popular.

God WHY did we ever think that haircut was a good idea.

I had an internet romance on a BBS in 1988. It was a medieval-themed RPG, and we wrote each other long flowery letters full of faux-olde-English. I was 15. He was ... significantly older.

This was my kid too. I have a degree in child development, and it’s truly not abnormal for some little kids to do that. Some kids suck their thumb, some tug and twirl their hair, and some masturbate. It’s a comforting behavior - more sensual than sexual.

Speaking as a similarly-honest mother of a now-18 year old, it does, a little. She was certainly having sex earlier than I’d have preferred. And sometimes she’s a little TOO honest with me; I reaaaallly don’t want a play-by-play of how her boyfriend was in bed.

I broke up with my high-school boyfriend while we were both working on a production of Brigadoon and I can safely say I have found the one man in the universe who does NOT look good in a kilt. (That’s not why I broke up with him, though. It just confirmed that it was a good decision.)

...I’ll be in my bunk.

Right? That is a “come-hither” look if EVER I saw one.