Thanks, you said this very well. My partner and I will also depend on a sperm bank because we are both women — the choice of genetics is important for many reasons, not just appearance, and the idea of an accidental mix-up is scary. I think a lot of people assuming she's racist have never been in the position of not…

Whenever I see Self Magazine, I am reminded of how my friend was obsessed with it before she was diagnosed with anorexia. It was like a shiny collection of celebrity thinsperation, workouts she could secretly do in her bedroom, and tips for consuming fewer calories.

My first thought was "hello yellow pit stains." :(

I don't think we're regressing. I think it has always been this bad, and was even worse in the past. The difference is that in 2014, incidents like this blow up on the internet. This isn't a top story in traditional news outlets, and never would have been in the past, but blogs and social media mean this incident will…

When it comes to air travel, I apply the philosophy I learned from Absolutely Fabulous: "I'm never going to see any of these people ever again in my whole life." I don't give a shit if a few dozen random strangers think I'm a low class slob.

I love Rhimes and all of her shows. She will never get the credit she deserves because her shows focus on topics important to women (relationships), and because she writes fast-past shows with a lot of discussion and drama — which is somehow considered inferior to shows where white people in period costumes quietly…

"I'm no more or less oppressed than you, and vice versa." So the myriad of legal and social privileges that come with your opposite-sex relationship don't mean anything? We're just "oppressed in different ways"?

Yeah, things got a bit heated during the Gawker privilege tournament when "bisexual" was pitted against "lesbian." Bisexuals were arguing in the comments that they are actually more oppressed due to bi-erasure and the reluctance of many gay people to date them.

"This isn't how you live, and it will never be how the world treats you." Thank you for this. As a lesbian, this is exactly how I feel about bisexuals who are in monogamous, opposite-sex marriages, particularly those who have never been with the same sex, making it entirely theoretical. I certainly support those…

Non-LGBT women are more likely to have access to men's income — meaning financial support from fathers, boyfriends, and husbands.

"For example, some of them may have touched their faces to wipe off sweat while caring for patients" — to me, that means it's pretty easy to get if you're having any contact with someone who has it. Especially if you don't know they have it.

I also think the CDC is downplaying the risk of infection from relatively light contact. They've made it sound like you have to be cleaning up a patient's vomit to be at risk, but we're hearing a lot of stories about people who merely touched a patient or a body and got infected. Not to mention all of the health care…

Exactly. With lesbians, you get a turn where your partner does what you like best. One partner might prefer oral, so she gets oral. The other partner might enjoy penetration, so that's on the menu too. Even when we switch it up and try new things, we can still finish with the activities that tend to make us come, if…

The mocking use of "selfie" in this coverage seems inappropriate given that two young children lost their parents to a tragic accident. They died taking photographs. It's not even confirmed that they were taking photos of themselves.

I love her and appreciate everything she has done for fans — but I have a hard time watching Gillian Anderson on other shows or seeing her do anything else, because it's too upsetting to me that Dana Scully is not a real person.

The absolute minimum amount of research? If you knew anything about paranoid germaphobes, you would know that few people spend more time reading about outbreaks than we do.

I worry about my partner because she is a doctor who works in an emergency room. But I understand what you're saying.

Thanks, I appreciate the response. My main fear is not Emory but someone who doesn't know they have it — if you can get it from touching someone and then scratching your face, that sounds pretty contagious to me. So most of my paranoia concerns situations where people aren't taking precautions because they don't…

I mean the CDC

I trust Emory to be very careful, and I support what they're doing — but I still feel like the government is downplaying the risk. I keep hearing the media stress that Ebola can only be spread through bodily fluids, like you have to be french-kissing someone who is vomiting blood. But if that's the case, why have…