Yeah. The only thing I condemn the parents for is, apparently, trying to cover up the fact that they were consuming by asking the hospital NOT to test their babies blood. If they’d just come in and said, “We fucked up. We made a terrible mistake. Help!” I’d be sympathetic. But, unfortunately, they still probably would…

I don’t know dude. You’ll have to do the hard work of thinking and figure it out.

As I just fleshed out in one of last comments: It also punches down. Because women are forced to assume a disproportionate amount of responsibility for the outcome of sex that can lead to pregnancy. It’s funny if you’re a guy. It’s not funny if you live with the anxiety that pregnancy actually represents.

See my last comment. It’s gross because its true. Reproductive abuse is demoralizing.

Yeah. It’s really punching down. Especially since Noah has a ton of material that basically complains about women being lazy in bed. When the reality is that just about every woman has ended up in bed with someone they thought was normal, who turned out to not want to wear a condom, and had to do the work of managing…

My immediate response to this article was to google: “Can you eat mayflies?”

The NRA is the tobacco industry of this generation. Not that the tobacco industry ever really went away. They’re doing better than ever. Just concentrating on killing brown and black people in Asia and Africa.

When I lived in the country was the only time I ever, briefly, thought: I kind of wish I owned a gun. Because it occurred to me that if my dog was ever mauled by a mountain lion and left alive, but dying and in pain, I’d want something to off him with. Or if I hit one of the many deer that seemed to suicidally jumped…

Yeah. But that’s exactly why lots of parents don’t let their kids go over to houses that have pools. So I don’t what your point is.

Trampolines are actually really dangerous. http://www.fscip.org/tramp.html

No. Parents are pretty frank when talking about practical safety related details. The ones who aren’t are not mature enough to be trusted anyways.

Right. Also, medical professionals (physicians, then dentists, then veterinarians) have relatively high rates of suicide of all professionals. Why? Obviously because they know how to do it and have access to the right drugs.

Holy fuck. Your poor son. But also... that poor girl. That’s a fucked up message to send to your daughter about the consequences of her... existing as a sexual being.

I know lots of people who don’t let their children play at houses that have pools for that reason as well.

Yeah. But the general consensus these days is that suicide is an action of opportunity. Many people may only experience a state of active suicidality once in their lives, very briefly. So if they don’t find a means during that window of time they never commit suicide. I live near two landmarks that have been used,…

Yes. This is one of those things that I just wasn’t prepared for, even though, I received a lot of explicit feminist instruction when I was younger: When you are a woman, your life is on a different track, time wise. Even though we typically get a few more years on this planet, we don’t get the second or third chances…

Increasingly I am convinced that the wage gap is an exploration gap. When you’re in your 20s, your exploration of knowledge is appreciated because its cute. But at that stage I think that the sharing of knowledge constitutes a type of grooming.

I’m exactly 32 and what I’ve noticed, moving into my 30s, is that opportunities to cross train, to learn new skills and to have new experiences are suddenly closed to me. When my father was my age he transitioned to a whole new career. I see men all around me who are my age make career jumps based on new interests and…