I'm surprised there hasn't been much talk about Miss Pennsylvania, whose story was that she was conceived as a result of her mother being raped and how she wanted to reach out to tell other people that they can achieve anything they want, regardless of where they come from. Given the stigma, I think it's a pretty…

For wealthy, white cis gay males, the Republican platform is beneficial in every way but the homophobia. Most likely they live in a blue state with marriage equality already, but if they don't, the inability to file taxes with their spouse isn't a huge financial burden (if they're even paying any taxes). They have no…

Dear Texas Republicans,

Dude. Preach.

Once, when I was in college, I went to this party, and there was this old hometown friend of the guy who was throwing the party. I saw this friend do a little slight of hand into a drink so I knocked it over and called him out. I knew then that one of the two of us was getting thrown out of the party. If Greg Abbot…

It always comes as a sad surprise that people who share your lack of privilege are so happy to throw you under the bus to get along with the oppressor. Or, to discover that people you agree with on a fundamental aspect of your identity have come to such a different conclusion on other important aspects of your…

The American Psychological Association (which oversees training of PhD level psychotherapists) has also come out as firmly against conversion/reparative therapies....

No. That was ableist to the extreme. Cut that shit out. You don't show support for one marginalised group by bagging on another.

This is one of those times when I have to look up say, "Really, Jesus? I have to love everyone? EVEN THE TEXAS GOP?!"

Oregon is in on it too, though our urban side drowns out the rural via population. If you think Oregon as a square, only the coastal 1/3rd of the state fits the hippie/hipster stereotype. The other 2/3rds is a sparsely populated wilderness of inbred, sexist, racist, YEC, birthers.

I'm a psychotherapist, earning my doctorate in clinical psychology. "Ex-gay" conversion therapy makes my blood boil. It made me angry when I learned about it as an undergrad before I understood the research, it made me furious when I started to work directly with gay kids and teens with emotional and behavioral…

Equality. And Cookies

lolwtf, that's not how u do the shocker.

ALL THE STARS for you.

Generally, it's pretty unsanitary for a server to pick up dirty dishes. I mean, you just ate off of them and the food leftover is probably not as constrained to the area that it was located when it was served. Should a server really grab your plate, and get your germs, put it in the bus pan, then grab a customer's…

I was on some antibiotic that would make me vomit if not eaten in the exact right time period with food. It was uncontrollable puking. It just happened. I was in a restaurant one time and got hit by this. I kept it neatly contained to my salad bowl, covered it with a napkin, politely told the waitress what happened,…

I was eating breakfast at a local joint one time. A couple tables away some schmuck was reading the riot act to one of the waitresses about his food. Now, understand, this place was a nice, cheap local diner. The food was OK but Wolfgang Puck wasn't working in the kitchen. I liked it and never had a bad meal there.…

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