I was so worried about the safety of the Obamas when Obama was president. So much vitriol directed toward them, so many people convinced he was a terrorist, etc. I remember watching his first inauguration anxiously, thinking how easy it would be for someone to get within range with a hidden gun. And I remember…

And...shoulder narrowing? Why would any man think the key to attracting women is having narrow shoulders? Don’t all the “Chads” go to the gym to broaden theirs? So weird.

Yup. It’s the same mindset that tells guys all they have to do is send a pic of their junk to any woman and she will be overcome with lust.

As a woman with a lot of female friends who are not shy about discussing sex in great detail, I have never, ever heard any of them say they were turned on by big balls. Nobody cares, dudes.

This! I remember (because I am an Old) receiving the polio vaccine at school. Why not have immunization clinics a few times a year at a place where the kids will already be?

I think the schools made the right decision there - really, what else could they have done? - but I feel so bad for the kids who apparently truly didn’t know what their parents were doing (like the ones whose parents paid an SAT proctor to alter scores after the fact). It would be painful to lose your school…

I find it so interesting, the protocol of whom the Royal Family is expected to meet with. Has there ever been a foreign dignitary who was refused for political or moral reasons? I understand the RF tries to stay away from political issues so they can be seen to be supporting and working for all their citizens, but to…

I once had a boss who clipped her toenails IN MY CAR while we were on a business trip together. Talk about ewwww!

I don’t think that’s unacceptable. No one could see the changing being done, and if was just pee, there wouldn’t have been enough smell to be noticeable. And you did it in the stroller, not on a table where people eat. I suppose for optimal cleanliness you should have gone to the bathroom so you could wash your hands…

I used to work as a dressing room attendant at a department store, and at least once a week I found bodily fluids left behind: filthy Kleenex, dirty diapers, used tampons/pads (sometimes wrapped in Kleenex, but occasionally not), even a pool of urine once. I couldn’t believe people would act like that. Revolting.

I’ve changed diapers on the floor at the very back of the plane, next to the toilet, when the toilet itself didn’t have room on its counter or floor. Not a perfect solution but a hell of a lot better than the tray table! Yuck!

I used to work at a church. One Sunday a visitor changed her child’s dirty diaper in the middle of the floor in the (small) foyer during the Fellowship Hour. People are standing around with their coffee and doughnuts, and here she is in the middle of it all with a very full, reeking diaper and soiled wipes strewn…

I often wonder what it’s like to be Trump. Does he like being this cruel and furious all the time? Does it make him happy in ways that being kind would not? Or is he insecure and unhappy, and this is his way of taking it out on other people to try to make himself feel better?

I’m from the South, and at least in my region, we nearly always use a modifier with pin/pen to avoid confusion: “straight pin,” “safety pin,” “ink pen,” etc.

I was recently talking with a friend about how disturbed I am by how different porn is now than it was even 20 years ago. Go on a site like PornHub and a huge number of the videos involve women and girls—especially teenagers—being hurt by men: slapped, choked, bent into painful positions, being penetrated by a…

Yes, this. My ex-boyfriend was an entitled asshole who had been *really* spoiled by a mother who thought he was never, ever wrong. He grew up to be an angry man because he thought everything should be handed to him on a plate. All his bosses were “assholes,” all his coworkers were “jerks,” all women who rejected him…

I hope she sues every person and news outlet that disseminated this trash.

But before the pain simulator they’d have to take ipecac a few times a day for a few months...and after, they’d be forced to poop out a cantaloupe that splits them stem to stern, and then given postpartum pain and depression, and then given lifelong hemorrhoids and pelvic pain issues...oh, and be forced either to…

I live in the Bible Belt and yes, there’s a widespread belief that women are weak/stupid/ignorant, don’t know what’s best for them, and need to be protected. And there’s a widely-held belief that most women who have abortions are traumatized and regretful for life, even though studies have shown that the vast majority…

I gave birth in 1996, and back then episiotomy wasn’t questioned. If you gave birth vaginally in a hospital, you were gonna get cut. I had a fourth-degree episiotomy, which is where they cut all the way through to the rectum. It was easily six months before I could have sex without pain and another six months after…