I know what you mean, but I doubt her parents will ever internalize that. Probably blame people who support trans people for putting the idea in her head

And they aren't allowed to get blood transfusions...

Does he have any spiritual or religious beliefs that he may be dealing with? Or maybe some abuse in his past that's been brought up due to this experience?

It surely goes without saying but: Don't read the comments on OregonLive.

I snorted up a good amount of tea at the fjords comment.

Here's our Miss Brown, with roughly the same reaction to her Christmas sweater:

I have a firsthand source that it was plenty climactic, that source being my vagina.

Thank you, dear! I try to ungrey where I can. Hang in there and remember that no matter what happens with this guy, we love you and you deserve good things.

I like where this is going. (No, there isn't)

Oh shit, that's not good. Look, what he's doing is because of his own hang ups about sex (I'm guessing) and do not reflect on you. You are good.

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Hi, fellow teacher.

JEZZIES what do you do when you are feeling the lonelies? I have been so lonely lately (even though I live with my parents and brother, we all co-exist well for the most part, at least my mom and brother and I do, but we're not close, which feels even lonelier) and idk my friends are either far away or busy a lot.…

God, I'm sorry

So your parents were cruel to a brain damaged child? Wowww. I had brain damage last year and fuck, you woulda had to be an awful fuck to be cruel to me then.

One of the reasons we folded and got our boys an Xbox for Christmas was for its carrot-stick potential. It increases our arsenal.

Calling other women "bitches" gives the movement a bad name, imo. Just because you disagree with someones politics doesn't mean you have to denigrate them. I disagree with the methods FEMEN uses, as well - they strike me as the PETA of the feminism world (meaning: obtuse, overly sensational, self-centred).

Is Ariana Grande simultaneously a little tiny baby AND an old woman?

You make a good point about the Simon fantasies of "what could be," particularly w/Hamsterdam, and it's one I should have mentioned (haven't watched in a couple years, still on Season 1 in the HBO marathon [will probably not emerge from house in days]). The realism was tempered with Simon's idealism and effort to show…

Oh yeah, the bit where she sent a rape victim an email like, "yeah, sorry, your friend's story was better."