These are the exact scenarios it didn’t occur to me to worry about at the time but haunt me now.

When I first moved to the US, before there was such a thing as AirBnB or video chat, I struggled to find anyone who was willing to take a chance on a roommate who wasn’t in the country yet. Eventually found a 30-year-old guy with a furnished room who described himself as tidy but chill and shared a lot of my hobbies.…

It would be, except his mother pronounces it A.I.
Also the letter exists in several living languages and is pronounced “I” (or technically a-e) or as a variety of other vowel sounds. There’s no “sh” sound.

It’s just an all round mess.

Licensed counselors?!

I want to study her and understand how someone winds up with these opinions.

The one about how if she were a man, she’d insist on having women sign a consent form before sex - it’s maddening. It assumes there’s no such thing as revoking consent, no such thing as an encounter starting out consensual and then turning…

I broke up with my first high school boyfriend in a five-minute phone call that was prompted by my second high school boyfriend confessing his feelings for me. Oh and also they were first cousins / BFFs. Second boyfriend and I both felt our behavior was beyond reproach because the breakup happened BEFORE we started…

I don’t think anyone’s arguing they should. Children who commit horrific crimes are still children, and the juvenile justice system exists for a reason. 

UK spelling. 

I agree in theory, but the current court is extremely partisan and political. The party affiliation of the president who nominated a justice is the best predictor of how that justice will rule. Sure, they can avoid declaring their political affiliation publicly, and they should, but that doesn’t mean we don’t know who…

From what I’ve read, there were three bonescans / attempts to assess her age, two of which concluded she was a child. The family doctor wrote the letter they based their petition for age correction on, and as far as I know he was the dad’s physician, not an expert on pediatrics, adoption medicine, or dwarfism.

The vastly superior Spicer. 

Yes? I agree with you re: intent vs impact. I’m musing on how we (BRAvisima and I, and I’m sure others) reconcile knowing people who behaved similarly and didn’t harm us, and we’re pretty sure didn’t intend any harm, but that doesn’t make them and others like them harmless to everyone else. I was trying to make the…

I knew a guy like that too and wasn’t traumatized by him either. I think it can be true that drunken frat boys sometimes wave their dicks around without intending to hurt or intimidate anyone, maybe even thinking they’re making themselves the butt of the joke, and it can also be true that it’s sometimes done…

“We should have a policy around the gays! We could call it... ‘don’t talk about it and we’ll be quiet about it’. Or, like, ‘if you don’t tell us about it we won’t ask.’ Something wonderful like that. You can workshop it.”

So like, it’s been a while but I’m pretty sure Jesus “receiving the death penalty” was a bad thing and that those who executed him were the villains of the story (handwashing and father-forgive-them notwithstanding). It couldn’t be that *gasp* Bible interpretation is subjective, could it?

Quite likely. Fetal alcohol syndrome wasn’t recognized officially until 1973, and prior to that the more severely affected on the spectrum were probably just considered intellectually disabled without further categorization. Those on the spectrum but who don’t have full blown FAS might not even have been recognized at…

I think that women’s drinking patterns were different, as were their reproductive patterns. There are WAY more women having children later in life now, which I think is a good thing for society but possibly means there’s less room for error on fetal development / genetic susceptibility to harm in utero.

There are twin studies where one fraternal twin is born with FASD and the other isn’t, suggesting that it’s true that genetic susceptibility varies.

My “appropriate programs and activities” will involve lots and lots of booze and some Handmaid’s Tale. Join me in spirit across America, friends.

All news is fake news unless it compliments POTUS and / or is retweeted by him.