The claim that big game hunting funds conservation efforts is largely a myth perpetuated by the big game industry. Something like 2-4% of the money hunters pay goes to conservation or to the local communities. The rest just passes from one rich, blood-thirsty asshole to other rich assholes.

I think she just meant “avoided.” Easy mistake to make.

But the article is all about the emotional and personal consequences of prostitution, sorry you have to have the implications of a story spelled out for you.

You both have very good reasons for feeling the ways you do about this and the most important thing is that you talked about them. Unlike what some people are going to say, you did not force him to propose. He recognized the relative importance of it to you and of you to him and acted accordingly.

“In the end, my view on marriage did not change. His didn’t either. Even so, later that weekend, Arran proposed. Getting married may not be very important to him, but I am.”

Thank you for writing this-- it mirrors my experience so well. It’s difficult to reconcile my past with who I want to be.

Congrats! This was really interesting. Best wishes to you and your soon-to-be husband.

Right, Brad consciously cheated. Brad filed for divorce from Jennifer.

Let the circus begin. No matter what happens people will still find a way of blaming Angelina . They still hate her for ‘splitting up a marriage’ and Brad came out of that unscathed even though he’s a grown man who can be held accountable for his own decisions. Christ I’m now ranting.

Oh for sure. I mean, look at Bill Cosby, he was America’s dad for a long time while shady shit was going on.

hmmmmmmmm i know a lot of ‘thin their whole lives’ women that diet. like A LOT. they “eat clean” and work out a ton

I thought FF was a man. Women don’t talk about dieting with men.

If we are talking anecdotes I know several women who would be thin or normal sized anyway, but restrict their eating (or, as a couple of them put it, “eat clean,” god I wish that term would go die in a fire somewhere) so they can be truly “skinny.”

Great way to put it. Its weird to read “literally no one diets anymore” because I mean...our entire culture is based on weight and being thin and eating habits. I remember having a conversation with my mom after I got my first 9-to-5 job about how every time my coworkers sat down to a meal, out came the comments on…

It goes against what I know, fundamentally, to be true about human beings: We cannot, consistently, resist our own appetites. None of us can.

This is such a bizarre hill for Flamingofun to die on. Literally almost every woman I know has dieted on and off for their whole life. I actually just had a conversation about this the other day- how I don’t have any female friends in my life who haven’t had disordered eating at least one point in their adult life.…

Oh sure, it’s not CALLED “dieting” anymore - now we call it “healthy eating” or a “lifestyle change”, but it is basically the same. Just have a look at the hundreds of clearly eating-disordered teen and young 20s vegans on youtube. Or those who do paleo, gluten-free, no-sugar or any other of those restrictive eating…

80% of 10 year old girls have been on a diet.

Wow, my experience could not be more different from yours. Every single woman I’m close with, from thin to fat, in different parts of the world, from all walks of life, has dieted. There was a period of time where I had to ask my friends to stop talking about Weight Watchers because I just couldn’t deal with them…

thesaurus on tape, maybe