Yeah, add me to the list of people who just doesn't get it. Isn't the whole anti-choice narrative that women are just casually "killing babiess" willy-nilly at the same drive-thru Planned Parenthood superstore window where we also pick up our soy chais and the pamphlets that teach us how to become lesbians or…
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Sophie Turner saying "boss-ass bitch" is _everything_.
Hahaha, I experienced the opposite version of this story as a kid - I was an INSANELY picky eater and basically ate PB&Js, hot dogs, and cheese pizza well past the age where this would be considered okay. One year my mom gave up on trying to berate me into eating Real Person Food for Thanksgiving, and thought she…
I know that if someone wants to commit a crime inside a bathroom, the type of stick figure on the door is not going to deter them. If someone is truly terrified of being attacked while in a bathroom, I doubt they really think the stick figure on the door is going to keep them safe. And if someone, like the vast…
No idea; I actually think it's a pretty silly and antiquated custom. As I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, my coed ~400-person dorm in college had unisex bathrooms, and during the years that I was there we did not have one single reported sexual assault in our entire dorm, let alone one "caused" by the bathrooms.…
I once gave Buzz Aldrin my number.
My brother is 10 years older than me and had braces from about age ~12-14. Since I idolized my brother I was convinced that braces were therefore the height of cool and desperately wanted some of my own. I never got creative enough to pull off the paper clip thing, though.
Oh, the myopic weather reporting (and really news reporting in general, but we'll stick to weather for the moment) we've been getting in recent years drives me *nuts*. The hierarchy these days seems to be:
Hey, that's my hometown! Southern MA represent! I wonder how the heck they chose Taunton for this out of all the many towns and cities south of Boston (trust me, it's not a place that usually warrants mentions of any kind...)
My coed ~400-person dorm in college had unisex bathrooms. We all peed, pooped, and showered next to each other, and during the four years that I was there we did not have one single reported sexual assault in our entire dorm - not in the bathrooms, not in the rooms, not during parties, nothing (and as for any…
#1: just out of curiosity, has there literally *ever* been a crime committed by anyone who used the "i had a right to be in the ladies' room because I felt like a woman that day!" statement to explain their presence?? There's such an insane amount of fear-mongering over this, but I swear I've never seen that news…
But what if, as is pretty common, the professor is the only person teaching the course that semester, or the only one who teaches the course *period*? The most likely situation is that nobody else can teach the student, so they're either stuck taking a class from someone they slept with or prevented from taking a…
Or similarly, why does "being a woman" mean Jenner should be "dressing or acting in a female manner"? I've always identified as a woman and was born with female sex organs, but I haaaate dresses and make-up and a lot of people would say I act like a "tomboy" or "one of the guys" (ugh). Doesn't change the fact that I…
Enh, it's not that simple at a university. If you start boinking a cardiologist and then suddenly need heart surgery, that cardiologist should NOT be the surgeon, regardless of whether you're now married, still banging, or broke up a while back (obviously this isn't always the case, but it is how the system is meant…
To be fair, the movie isn't actually based on Moby Dick itself; it's based on Nathaniel Philbrick's book about the sinking of the Essex whaleship (which *in turn* is the story that supposedly inspired Meville to write Moby Dick). It seems like splitting hairs, I know, but it at least provides a legit explanation for…
Something tells me the conversation and reaction to all of this would be preeeetty different if the anti-vaxxers currently spreading horrible diseases around the country were poor and brown instead of rich and white. Instead of "personal belief exemptions" we'd have kids getting ripped from their parents by CPS,…
There are two networks in my apartment complex having an utterly awesome network name war: when we moved in one was named "FBI Network" and the other "NSA Trusted". Every few weeks one or the other renames itself and it slowly gets more and more extreme: "FBI Surveillance Van", "NSA Spy Drone", "FBI NanoBot Support",…
I propose a caption contest. Here, I'll start: