"Go iron your dick" is going in my repertoire.

1776! I love that musical.

Seriously. Tipping is some weird, outdated custom from when we had to bow and scrape to those who were to the manor born. F tipping.

Eep.

I know! I would have done something to make my mom question trusting me to have google back in the day!

I see what you mean. Good kids are good kids regardless of scenario.

That's really not true. I was the only kid in high school who was allowed to sleep over at my bf's house and I was also one of the only kids who knew how to protect myself and at 37 has still never had unprotected sex because my mom talked to me and trusted me. My friends were reckless idiots, partially in order to…

I was allowed to sleep over at my boyfriend's house at 17. One if the best parenting choices my mom ever made.

Oh I know! If I need to motivate myself to clean, throw on an episode of Hoarders and I'm good to go. My mom came very close to becoming a full blown hoarding mess, so that show always reminds me where my slovenly tendencies could lead!

I think just about all of us have been sucked in by at least one reality tv show. For a while there my husband and I were inhaling Wife Swap like it was an illicit substance. It was positively indecent how much we enjoyed judging the couples week after week.

They're filmed in the bathroom? Daaaayum.

Oh lordy, I would have absolutely lost my shit. I know I would have gone straight to 11 and made a spectacle of myself.

I could have written that letter 20 years ago. I was incredibly angry with all of Christianity for reasons I don't fully understand even now. Sadly, I was essentially a total bigot. I refused to be friends with anyone who identified as Christian, would go out of my way to say hurtful, anti-Jesus things just to pick a…

Fascinating! I look forward to reading more about them. Thank you!

I like you! And I agree with everything you've said. It is the structure that's the issue, isn't it? I mean, when was the last time you heard about that great big Quaker scandal?

Ach, but that's not what we're really talking about here, is it? It was if a community run by religion is inherently harmful to women, no? Certainly individual churches and non-profits do good work and help women. However, once a church is in charge I believe that things go very badly for women, certainly in all…

That looks like a secular empire, not a theocracy though. Am I missing something?

I'm trying to come up with a situation in which a theocracy has ever been good for women. I agree that secular institutions can be quite bad for women, but I also cannot think of a situation in which religion holds dominion where women were not objectively worse off than their secular neighbors. Do you know of one?…