So they raped women in order to prevent the raping of women? Patriarchal logic!

Christ on a cracker. I'm not even in favor of the concept of patenting genes but your naivete and idealism are intensely repellant. Not to mention stupid. Scientists have bills to pay too. State of the art labs and equipment aren't free. This stuff doesn't happen by magic, it happens because of good funding. I bet you…

When you think of how much money companies spend on research and development finding these genes and what they do it becomes very complicated. If there is no monetary incentive to figure these things out than there will be no research done to figure them out. It's capitalism at work.

I FFwded to the end. Couldn't take the suspense.

It's not always clear cut, imo. Maybe you're a cusper ie born between two distinct generations. If you were born in the very late 70s-early 80s you probably don't identify with millennials but you're also probably too young to be considered Gen X.

I know you said this but I think you need to fully internalize it: nothing you ever say is going to fix someone's depression. They don't want you to say anything or expect you to say "the right thing." Depressed people don't want anything. I think the best thing you can do is keep urging them to get professional help.…

Depression sufferers: Yes! That's exactly it! I've never been able to properly explain before!

Maybe Aikido? It's completely defensive and was designed to use the attacker's strength against him.

Sadly, it is normal. And despite your attempt at finger wagging, I do agree with you. I was a kid in public school when AIDs was national news every night. It was drilled into our heads "get tested, use protection, get tested." And even though I grew up in a state where comprehensive sex ed was the norm even they…

Yesterday everyone was pissed that Mika from Morning Joe suggested to her friend that the world is fat phobic. Today everyone is going to be pissed because the world actually is fat phobic. Oookay.

I agree with you. A lot of overweight people who make the decision to lose weight have a wake-up call moment. A lot of times it comes in the form of seeing yourself in a particularly bad picture- that's what my wake-up call moment was. I've always known I was fat but I didn't realize how fat I'd gotten. And my…

Yes!!! Thank goodness. This is exactly why no one wants to come out and talk about this stuff. This lady has come out to talk about her disordered eating and people are jumping down her throat for saying problematic things about weight? For real? Take notes everyone, unless you're perfect you better keep your trap…

I feel you (except I'm also fat.) I've been working on losing weight for the last few months and it seems to have kicked my binge compulsions into high gear. (I guess it's a very common reaction to food/calorie restriction.) I have these incredibly overwhelming urges to stuff my face with absolutely anything. It feels…

In this day and age public figures do not go on publicity tours about their binge eating disorders and consuming entire tubs of Nutella in the middle of the night. You're way too cynical.

I think I saw these at Payless the other day.

I was thinking about this earlier, only how to talk to a friend you think may be developing or in the throws of anorexia/bulimia. It's really tough. I hate the idea of commenting on anyone's body but I also hate the idea that my friend could be slowly killing herself, suffering and feeling alone, and I never said…

Except that the world actually does judge and hate fat people. Not a nice reality, but it's the truth.

They're too outraged at the idea that Mika payed her friend to lose weight. Nevermind that what she actually did was pay for her friend to lose weight.

I find your comment confusing and I think you may be projecting. What you say a "real friend" would say and what she actually did do not strike me as any different. Remember, you don't know how the conversation actually went down and you don't know their relationship. I don't see how you can interpret what went on…

No no no. Let's fully ignore the context of where she was speaking and who she was speaking to and get out our pitchforks. And we can use everything she did in her youth against her too! She seems to have changed her mind about something after getting older and having new experiences. That's not allowed!!