"That is a perfectly valid viewpoint."

"those who say they are pro-choice and argue that so, apparently is Anita Perry (e.g. "I believe abortion should be a choice between a woman and her doctor, but I'm not nuts about abortions—I'd rather women not have to have them.") and the pro-abortion contingent that argues what the hell is wrong with an abortion?"

I still like to describe people as being "from circumstances". It also introduced "dang" to my vocabulary.

"Must be able to wear a fedora with style."

My worry is that if I wanted to fix one thing about myself I could then go on and write a list as long as my arm of other flaws to remedy. It sounds like you're pretty focused on this one aspect, but my totally uninformed opinion is that you should promise yourself that this will be it. If you don't...that way madness…

Nah, I've done that before. The worst part is that I went "Oh no, someone's worked out who I am! ...wait. My name's not Patrick." Yeesh.

I don't have advice, but I'm curious whether she'll have to go into quarantine? I'm pretty sure there used to be crazy long quarantines to try to prevent rabies.

No? Or is this a reference I'm missing?

Exactly. I used to think that I had a "type", then I realised that I really didn't when I actually looked back. I'm still young (26) so in a way I'm kinda excited about what could tickle my fancy in the future. It's also quite freeing, not to have to worry about attracting somebody "perfect".

Oops, forgot the link: http://achewood.com/index.php?date…

Any Achewood fans here? I'm kinda overjoyed that the creator is updating again, albeit infrequently. Roast Beef is my spirit animal.

I'll have a bottle of tequiza....OK not really because tequila-flavoured beer sounds awful but I just found out it exists.

Well as a bearded man I appreciate it.

So much of what we find attractive is just stupid, arbitrary rules that are programmed into us. I used to have all sorts of conditions for finding someone attractive, like needing to have long hair. They all lasted up until I met someone I found incredibly attractive despite their "flaw" and then it just...didn't…

Hey, you still got out, that's still amazing. If hostages can develop Stockholm syndrome then it's no wonder that people in relationships get manipulated to that extent. There's no shame in it.

I almost wish that the ad had more specific examples. It's probably too easy to think things like "Battered? All my boyfriend does is shove me against a wall during an argument, he doesn't batter me."