I think that relationships between two people are complicated and require a lot of flexibility and good communication skills, and each additional person adds more complexity and requires more flexibility and better communication skills. I don’t think it’s impossible, not by a long shot, but  people in general tend to…

I mean, sure, in relationships where that’s the case it contributes. But anecdotally among my friends, desire flags even in egalitarian and emotionally fulfilling relationships and a lot of my female friends seem to need more novelty / spice (ETA: not in terms of partners, but new fantasies, toys etc) than their male…

In most of the relationships I know that started out monogomous and evolved into open / poly the shift was instigated by the woman, but I always thought that must be unusual. It’s always interesting to confront your internalized biases.

Uhm. My cycle has been so messed up for the last couple of years I’m not sure I’ve gone a seven-day period without spotting. My secular humanist style is cramped plenty by this, but an Orthodox woman in my situation...

Yes, fuck that guy. These kids worked hard for four years, and you threaten to take away their moment in the spotlight for being disruptive for an hour?

We have all been elbowed in the face by Mike Pence and this child is the first to secure an apology.

That’s beautiful and I actually had to take several deep breaths after it was over. He makes me... feel things.

I’m with you. I’m all for poly / nontraditional partnerships based on mutual respect and meeting everybody’s needs. This doesn’t look like that. If this is that, great! But it doesn’t look like that.

They have to think this though, right? Because they want to block women who are self-aware enough to say “You know what, I can’t / am not equipped to / don’t wish to be a decent parent, or a parent at all” and / or “As much as I’d like to be a parent, having a baby now would trap me in this abusive relationship”
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Wait, I changed my mind. The SINGLE most damning thing is this quote: “I would prefer to have it scored, but more than that I want it to pass.” 

The single most damning thing is exempting Congress. If you hate this legislation so much that you don’t want to subject yourself to it, you sure as fuck shouldn’t subject your constituents to it.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: we have to start gamifying this shit. Will the AHCA kill us or will North Korea, climate change or contaminated air and water get us first? Never a dull moment in Trump’s America.

I love how she conveniently erases the possibility of sex for anyone who’s not both religious and married. An approach that has been tested literally everywhere throughout history and has worked literally never and nowhere. If you want to talk about “always preventing the conception of a child”.

“The prospect that contraception would always prevent the conception of a child is preposterous.”

Beautiful.

I love the tweet about a “real journalist, finally”... referring to a video of himself. I know POTUS refers to himself in the third person and piles on praise, but it’s still such a weird thing to do.

Thanks for the info! That was the very worst, and also most likely, scenario.

“after she publicly disclosed she suffers from hysteria of the lady parts”

WTH is up with this?

She does. She’s also fluent in Russian, which depending on whom you ask may be no less important to understanding Trump.