Um, there is nothing that is harder to fit about my plump figure than a thin one. It’s hard for me to find clothes that fit because they’re not being made, not because fat women are intrinsically “hard to fit”

Yeah, I mean, I get her point, and yes, plenty of people’s version of helping is “replace your actual life with my version of ‘better,’” but I can’t believe kidnapped/sold twelve year olds being passed around to hundreds of clients are feeling “empowered” by their lives.

This is such a great idea! I was lucky to grow up in a family that could afford pads/tampons, so that wasn’t a problem. But, like many girls, I had a pretty erratic period at first. The first year — my first year in middle school — was definitely the worst; there were times I had to miss school because of the…

I prefer, “A constant stream of blood and other fun gunk from my uterine wall coming down through my vagina.” But to each their own!

Meanwhile, here in Canada, we’ll still have the Trudeau’s.

I didn’t mind the way she handled the karate thing. And I thought it was awesome how receptive the karate teacher was to the criticism!

Can’t agree there. I was totally on board with her complaining about another child teasing her kid until she cries. One may or may not agree about the pretend guns, but that level of teasing is not teasing anymore; it is flat-out bullying.

Hey, know who also spoke out against Amnesty’s proposal? ACTUAL SEX WORKERS. Why, it’s almost like this is a complex issue with no easy answers! Unless you think they’re jealous too? Ooh, that’s a toughie, isn’t it? Having to pit your pro-sex worker ideals against your nasty judgment of women based on what you presume…

Woman here as well. I lived in the Netherlands - it’s legal, sure, it’s also filled with women who were coerced and trafficked and kidnapped into being prosititutes, mostly immigrants. And even for the local Dutch prostitutes who may just be putting themselves through school, it’s generally not something they list on…

Well, but there’s consenting to something because you want to have sex with people for money (and if you do, great! You do you!) and consenting to something because you’re poor, or uneducated, or feeding an addition, or whatever and it’s the only prospect you have for making money. Is that actually consent and is that…

Personally, I wish she had talked about Nancy becoming the face for astrology and it’s use in forming policy. Or how Ms. Reagan had the decency to buck the GOP trend of being anti science and support stem cell research. Oh well.

There have gotta be about 978974654654654 ways to avoid “speaking ill of the dead” that don’t also posit the motherfucking Reagans as thought leaders on the AIDS epidemic. Gimme a break.

Just because the article didn’t go into it: Meningitis is, along with being deadly, also a very painful way to die. So not only did these people let their son die because they’re batshit psychopaths who own a naturopath company that peddles bullshit, they let him die in an excruciatingly painful way.

Fucking Christ. It’s not about protecting our daughters from the big bad men. It’s about showing that big bad men are a) typically bigger than women (but actually little wimps), b) bad, and c) all men. Our sons don’t, for the most part, have to be protected from big bad men or even from big bad women, so you’re…

As an autistic adult, fucking yes this. I would rather be alive and me, with all the problems that brings with it, than dead from meningitis or struggling with PPS.

Seriously. I can’t imagine how much that poor kid must have suffered because his parents decided his pain wasn’t worth getting over their own bullshit. It’s unconscionable.

I wrote some very angry and very murderous things that I don’t want to hit “publish” on. So instead here are some cute animals.

Yeah, I feel like I’m not cut out for relationships because I get the heebie jeebies around people who need constant affection. I am the least romantic person in history. I like sex, and I like to hug and cuddle, and non-sexual physical affection, but insistent sexual attention creeps me the fuck out, and the need for…

Cuts both ways: “I want to having an emotionally satisfying committed relationship with you, so let me check your phone and email to make sure you obey the rules” is a terrible strategy.