Wtf is this commentator doing in a feminist website lol. There no way in hell JW would be down with empowering women, I mean they can't even lead prayer if their is a baptized 13 year old boy in the room unless they were a scarf around their head lol

I’m 36 and even though I’ve been out for 18 years, I still get the occasional “what if I was wrong?!” panic. I know sooo many people that have left though.

Omg I used to freak out anytime politicians would say “peace and security” on TV. Now they have some shitty cartoons for kids too telling them how to be the perfect kid! I am so glad my kids don’t have to deal with this crap. They are so lucky. They get to celebrate birthday and Christmas and not worry that the world…

When I lived in a house and the JWs would come to my door, I enjoyed trolling them by replying that I wasn’t present when Jehovah had done anything and therefore hadn’t witnessed it. Mostly cause they were giant douches and came by at 8am on Saturdays.

I’ll paraphrase the better and funnier tweeters:

FOR REAL! For years after we got out I had random panic attacks because I was sure Jehovah hated me for leaving. I mistrusted everyone for years and had the worst time making friends. I swear it took me a full decade to shed all the remnants of that mind control.

You don’t find their policy of disfellowshipping/shunning people who violate their rules hurtful to families? Or how they covered up instances of sex abuse (much like the Catholic Church) an issue? As an ex-JW, I can certainly tell you the effect they had on my life has not been good. What that cult has taken away…

I’ve been trying forever to piece together early warning signs of a rapist...but I can’t. You never know...the “nicest” guys I’ve dated engaged in non-consensual sexual acts with me.

Fourteen year old me wanted to jump his bones so badly. Oh Legolas! So pretty! So aloof! So detached! And then I saw Orlando Bloom in other things and realised that his slightly blank stare and head tilting were not him perfectly capturing the otherworldliness of the elves, that is actually just how he acts. Who told…

[click click click] ENHANCE! [click click click] ENHANCE!

Then someone made this goddamned masterpeice with it:

A few things. First of all, our inability to change chromosomes at the moment does not mean that it can never be changed. Medical technology is undergoing huge revolutions at the moment, and there's no reason to think that gene therapy is a dead end. Secondly, yes, gender dysphoria would still exist, or perhaps a more…

I distinctly remember 167 being the number of licks it took me. I mean, after those commercials, didn't we all count licks while eating Tootsie Pops?

I also counted as a child (in Math class, because that seemed appropriate and on-topic), and I got somewhere between 500 and 600. I don't remember exactly. But straight up licking a tootsie pop is hard, so there were a few sucks and swirls in there.

My mom tried to find out as well. She finished, but her tongue was raw for a while.

I counted!! 198. (no siblings)