Thank you! My own sexual education was basic mechanics and a solid “never do it” mindset that also made it clear that anyone who has sex outside of marriage was damaged and garbage.

I’m with you and my daughter is getting one around that age. I can’t believe it’s not more of a thing. The reason it’s not universal is America’s deeply-rooted fuuuucked up, puritanical issues with sex.

I know kardashian has become shorthand and people use it without exercising any critical thought. But Kim especially is really killing it with being a decent person. And whatever else they do/are, their family does come out at the top of their priorities. Which I don’t think is such a terrible thing. Those women…

All I have is my truth and a great deal of empathy. We have to help each other when we can, where we can and never give up. ❤️

That’s so gross. I’m sorry that happened to you. Hello, re-traumatisation. Unfortunately, some people will respond that way. Either because they’ve been privileged to never experience such a violation and they’re too stupid to imagine it, or because they’re just plain old awkward, or because they have their own…

It’s ok. You’re ok. May I gently suggest that you give this feeling space to exist rather than trying to kill or repress it? It’s ok to have bad feelings; it’s ok to cry. In fact, crying literally releases stress hormones from your body.

*shivers* I literally just wrote about being a rape survivor as being an amputee. Talk about a common shared experience. :-(

*makes a quiet cup of your favourite beverage and slips it across the table to you* I know. I know. It’s horrible and it hurts and it’s not even your fault- it was some shitstain who did it to you and left you with the pain. They shaped you into a person you’d never have been otherwise. Against your will. I’m sorry,…

That’s the first part of finding healing. Real, true deep down healing. Not stuffing it away healing, not “dealing with life I’m fiiiine” healing, but real healing. I’m sorry that happened to you. It happened to me too, many times from many men from literally my earliest memories until ten years ago. There is an…

Sure. I’m saying that as a cishet ally, this whole thing showed me i damn well need to be more vocal about calling out bigots and saying what I think. It’s mobilized me. I don’t in any way think it’s over, but the plebiscite made me sit up and realise I need to fight for my friends. Because there is a fight. I think…

I’m an American resident of Australia and I have a wide group of lgbtia friends. Up to the vote I was fairly lazy about gay rights, I thought Aussie’s were pretty laid back, live and let live. Then I saw and heard the attacks and they were vicious... I was deeply shocked at the levels of hatred. A friend’s Trans…

Haha! I love that! I just poured beer over my head hehe.

Idk. I set my hair on fire in 2005, no hair spray involved. Just a cigarette, a very long long distance call and a bit of beer.

Ding ding ding ding

Accurate take on forest gump is accurate.

I fear that one day the entire us public school system will be replaced with that form of education. 🤨

I really don’t know, but I’d thought they were metric. From Wikipedia- “According to the US Central Intelligence Agency’s Factbook (2007), the International System of Units has been adopted as the official system of weights and measures by all nations in the world except for Myanmar(Burma), Liberia and the United…

Oh, it’s not too bad once one accepts that 20 degrees is a nice springy/balmy autumn day and not well below the freezing point. I like that cms are smaller than inches, too, more indicative. I work with weights and measures a lot in my work so I got used to it fairly quickly. Especially in sewing, metric measuremts…

Oh my god. I have a child and still wouldn’t subject myself to that... I decorate a bit and make a nice (summer!) meal, a handful of gifts and thats it. Then she goes over to granny’s house to play with her cousins. That literally it.

Cross metric off your list... I moved to Australia from the USA ten years ago and I resisted metric heartily... until I realised that it’s really fucking useful and logical, and so easy to calculate. None of this multiply by 12, 16, etc crap. No, everything is on a power of ten. So. Easy. Imperial measure is bullshit…