Possibly also unpopular opinion but...I think it’s actually less healthy to let kids think that love and family is so fragile that one generic, undefined “mistake” can bring it crashing down. Or the other option, the “we just grew apart,” which only serves to spackle the cheater’s actions and communicates to kids…

Doesn’t matter. My money is on the Merman.

I’m interviewing him later today and will find out.

I hear you- I had to take my husband to the ER when a routine physical turned up sky high blood pressure- again, a genetic predisposition towards heart disease.

The letter writer who cannot deal with her husband’s erectile dysfunction, i.e. “boner loss during sex” absolutely should encourage him to go to a doctor. Erectile dysfunction can be one of the earliest signs of heart disease, and ruling out, or treating, underlying conditions that contribute to, or cause e.d. is the…

No, that’s not necessarily true at all. There were definitely historical cases when a Queen Regnant did not lose ruling power when she married. It very much depended on the agreement they made prior to marrying, what the husband was like. etc.

Wordsonawire is wrong. This is only a problem that occurs when a woman is supposed to be the top title. Almost universally, the king’s wife becomes the queen. The only thing is she won’t reign alone if the king dies. She can only be regent to the next king or queen-her child with the king- until they can rule. If…

Lord Darnley, the second husband of Mary Queen of Scots was epically butthurt that she wouldn’t grant him the Crown Matrimonial. This would have given him equal power with her and meant he got to keep the throne if he outlived her. As she also had a strong claim to the English throne, this was a big deal. …

Ruining our youth? I can’t even get them to read a fucking syllabus.

I’ll be honest: the failure to stick with my Catholic upbringing *did* make me a lesbian. Which is all the more surprising considering I was assigned male at birth, haha.

Oh children, clearly you didn’t get sex ed at the height of the AIDS crisis, before any treatment existed. I did actually have protected oral in the 90s. It wasn’t terrible, I guess. I mean I was just excited to be actually having sex, and really terrified of catching HIV and dying.

I used to be a dressmaker, so I know what goes into making a wedding dress. The fabrics are not cheap, the work invokved is massive (built-in corsets, wired hems) and the pressure is enormous. Last time I worked on a wedding gown I charged $250 to shorten the front and take in the back, and believe me, it wasn’t…

You can have that opinion but wedding dresses are not ready-to-wear things. They have detailing like beading and lace that is done by hand and the people who do that should be paid accordingly. Alterations even on the simplest dress also need to be done and that person should also be compensated well for a job that…

Right. If they were taking orders for iPads and not delivering then no one would question it. But it’s something that is important to women, so it’s stupid and everyone has to chime in to decide what these women’s priorities should be.

You are completely leaving out the Jews, Nazi Germany’s desire to exterminate all of them, and the fact that Poland had one of the largest Jewish populations in the world.

I mean, I feel like if you get two old rabbis in a room and ask them what the nature of God is, you’ll get five hours of discussion, ten bad jokes that are somehow way more smutty than you’d think, and at the end of it both sides will have somehow switched position and be arguing just how wrong their old views were.

Yeah no shit. Jesuits question everything. A Jesuit priest developed the Big Bang Theory. And my favorite Jewish philosopher, Maimonides, wrote some of the most introspective religious or non-religious works ever. In his Guide to the Perplexed, he basically outlined how the only real form of worship is total abject…

No major religion, and certainly none of the Abrahamic options, are designed to welcome curious, articulate, critical thinkers

Since you’re not asian, you can’t be expected to understand what it’s like to be within a stone’s throw of acceptance but always kept at arm’s length fulfilling the role of yes men. Don’t try to understand it, you can’t, you’re not asian and don’t have the lived experience.

I just want to add my two cents to this conversation as a young woman in college who has worked as a sugar baby before in NYC. I already have one 15-20 hour week work-study job that pays over $12 an hour (this is in addition to an 18 credit class load - or four classes) and I simply wasn't making enough to make ends…