True story, real question.

Fair enough. I can barely find pants, and my ass is involuntary. 

Girl, I ran into my now ex-husband on a date with somebody else before we were even divorced. He was at one of “our” places doing one of “our” things, with her. I felt all the same things you’re saying here, but no jealousy for the woman because I knew who she was dating.

I’m not even conflicted, I’m just opposed. I was already sick of breast cancer messaging that somehow sexualizes testing and prevention. Now we’re also supposed to post topless videos of ourselves singing for the cause?

It’s ok to be creeped out. I was also once asked out by someone 20 years older than I was, and I was creeped out too. I know sometimes people are interested, but I feel like the asker should need strong, concrete encouragement before making a move in that context.

I’m sick today but still got a bunch of chores done. I was somewhat sick yesterday as well, but still had a productive work day.

Origins A Perfect World SPF 40. It’s a great, thick moisturizer and sunscreen in one. Also has a nice but subtle scent. 

Unless this is your personal style, the latter. 

I’m a counselor who works at a hospital, and I have to do standardized intakes and other forms all the time. There are ways to present sensitive questions/topics that are more compassionate, so if I were a doctor I would do something like that.

I thought beans and rice was a healthy complete protein? Why would anyone be shamed for eating this?

I do this too, and have never gotten an argument. I haven’t known my weight for over 5 years. Highly recommend. 

Awesome. I read on Captain Awkward that she says to doctors, “Yes, I’m fat. What would you say to a thin person who had exactly the same symptoms as me?”

5. Most of these guys have enough money to never work again anyway. 

No one? I don’t know. I might not use the word “creepy,” but I generally do judge that. 

Yep. I’ve also noticed that men especially tend to posit adoption as an equivalent alternative to abortion—as if they are more or less the same thing from the mother’s perspective, since in both cases she doesn’t have to raise a child. There’s no understanding that pregnancy and labor are significant (and risky) experi…

I think that would be more effective targeting people who claim to support choice but give all kinds of concessions making abortion harder to access.

That does more or less sound like what pro athletes, rock stars, and other rappers tend to say about cheating. As if it’s something that just happens, and within reason it’s ok, and somehow it never involves their own volition.

Preach.

Yeah I’ve just resolved not to stop using birth control until I’ve gone 5 years without a period.

It really pisses me off that of all the pastors who would have been proud to officiate Aretha Franklin’s funeral, this is the one who got that honor. This conduct really spits on her legacy. And I would still feel that way even if I somehow knew that Aretha herself would have excused this.