Bones, cartilage, skin and fat make the best stock.

I say this not to be rude or make assumptions about your friends (just based on how many women this happens to, it seems likely)—you probably do have friends who have done this and if you haven’t seen it, you’ve been lucky or they don’t think you would be impressed. I say this because I have wonderful male friends who…

This could become a thing. I mean, even Willy Wonka saw the value of spitting in multicolor.

Since the uterus is near the bladder, I wonder if they injected something so they’d know if they nicked it?

This left me feeling gross. She’s a kid for fucks sake. She shouldn’t be saving her family from bankruptcy.

You’re probably thinking about sex-positive consenting adults who discover polygamy as part of an informed journey and make un-coerced decisions about it. Tens of thousands of ‘sister-wives’ throughout the decades never had those choices.

I think you should probably look into the issues surrounding Mormon polygamous marriage before making such sweeping pronouncements.

“It seems like something easier to police by enforcing birth (and marriage) registration laws in the first place.”

Geography plays a big part in making this difficult. It’s really hard to emphasis just how cut-off a lot of FLDS communities are. Some of them are literally hundreds of miles away from ANY kind of…

Cameron Greene, 24, Democrat, staff assistant for Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse

I could watch, or not watch, Christopher Guest movies for hours. And still find a reason to watch them.

I’m loaded up on athleisure because guilt-free pajamas in public is my jam.

Fuck this asshole. My daughter is autistic. She has been autistic since she was born. I knew there was something different long before she got the MMR vaccine. My daughter being autistic is just who she is. She sees and processed the world differently. That’s okay. I wouldn’t change her even if I could. To me it…

Growing up my mom was adamant about never using someone else’s comb or wearing their hat. I never got it.

Absolutely. Coming from someone who gave her daughter Cordelia as a middle name.

It’s amazing to me that anyone still puts up with the scam of unpaid internships. Too many people, from the interns themselves to the (for-profit) companies that employ them, don’t understand that unpaid internships are largely illegal under the DoL’s Fair Labor Standards Act. In order for an unpaid internship to be…

Back to foie gras on my burritos while you all selfishly destroy the world!

Sadly, it won’t change a damn thing when it comes to the majority of private prisons, which are run by state governments. And nothing in this article indicates that the federal government plans to end immigration detention centers which are run by private companies either.

This is interesting. I’ve heard about female guards assaulting male prisoners, but I didn’t realize the stats were as skewed as you point out. I’m a little more knowledgeable about assault in the military, because I’ve read more about that (probably here, in fact).

I think it’s actually really important to not pretend that male victims don’t exist. It’s used as a derailing tactic, though. It’s always used as a way to try and shut women up. It’s used to deny the relationship between sexual assault and patriarchal social control over women. And they leave out the fact that men who…

I think that the “men get raped” concept is useful. Not in a discussion like what Reductress is talking about, but because it broadens the conversation about rape in a valuable way. It has valence in terms of discussions about masculinity, and also empowers the male victims of assault (who are predominantly assaulted…