I read the wash post article when it came out, expecting it to be about a religious sect. Came away horrified and did some research. It’s unbelievably shameful for our nation, I tell everyone now.

I too used to assume child marriage in the US was between peers, but the numbers don’t bear that out it’s pretty shameful, especially because many states allow marriages with an age difference that would be statutory rape in any other circumstance.

The only thing that makes FLDS an outlier is that the predators only impregnate the girls after marriage.

I just had to do this the other day. The poor sucker came running all excited when I called him. Next thing he knew, he was in a locked bathroom and I had a towel.

It’s similar to anti-terrorism strategies in some European cities. THey are really effective, but make us uncomfortable because humans are wired for revenge. But many people join terror groups because they want to belong somewhere and feel special, not because of the rhetoric (see: neo nazis with black friends and…

There is one musuem of slavery in Lousina(?). It’s controversial bc it depicts slavery as a graphic, horrible thing.

I live near the headquarters, been to protests there. They are protested all the time. It’s like right in a (white) neighborhood that seems to keep the crazies under control (they’re still douchey tho)

To start with: in vanilla sex, “no” and “stop” are the equivalent of safe words. They are words that when uttered mean the sex should stop.

I’m a white woman who seriously dated a Pakistani guy from a muslim family for over two years (he’s also probably the only guy I’ve really loved so far). I CANNOT WAIT for this movie. It’s the first rom com that I will ever remotely relate to, bc for the first time it’s people having conversations I’ve had (“I love…

I meant “A Thing” that many people (especially young women) do. Not a thing people talk about. Only a few (shitty victorian style) therapists talked about needle girls. I meant self injury (usually in secret) has a much longer history that we don’t acknowledge (most people assume its a mid 1900s “trend”).

And its been A Thing for a long time. There’s documentation of victorian era women jabbing themselves with sewing needles when stressed (I think they called them needle girls).

Can you link to the girls killing their families? I’m aware of the other issues (their communities fearing them, ostracism etc) but I’ve never heard of any of them becoming violent and I can’t find anything online

They expand the gay issues.

It’s not that only rich people can breed. It’s that infertility is rampant and only rich (ahem, holy) people get a special surrogate just for them. Handmaids aren’t all the fertile women, they’re fertile women who have “sinned” and bearing children for the deserving elite is how they atone for those sins.

Did anything say she was boring?

Sailor here. It does take a lot more DI/distilled water to stop feeling thirsty though. Which is okay when water is unlimited. Sailors often use powdered gatorade to fix that

Cannot recommend this enough. We put my dog down at home, laying in her favorite spot with all of us. It was especially kind because her organs had begun to swell and she had a bad back (corgi) so picking her up to put her in a car was really painful for her.

I want to say something comforting, but I can’t.

While things like this happened under Obama (too often, frankly) I think it’s important to recognize that these things happening under trump are worse, because he specifically advocated for targeting the families of terrorists.

I worked at a law firm (office stuff, not a lawyer) that specialized in immigration. Soooo many applications are rejected for things like this. And if you can’t afford a lawyer, good luck filling the apps out correctly. I had a BS and they were incredibly confusing.