I like how these crafty assholes are simultaneously trying to outlaw the extremely rare late term abortions and then adding so many time restrictions on abortion access that eventually the only ones possible will be late term abortions. It's practically Machiavellian, and I'm reasonably sure that they only stumbled on…

I went to the University of North Carolina-Asheville as an undergraduate. It is widely regarded as an ultra-liberal hippie school, especially for a state institution in North Carolina. Their handling of sexual assault was atrocious. My experience of this is all second hand, but I feel it is important to highlight how…

The bf and I are hoping/planning to open a non profit forensics processing lab after grad school and we discussed how we would have the hospitals bill pur lab directly for rape kits and other related medical bills and we will deal with the reimbursement from the state or insurance or whatever. Look for our kick…

Does nobody remember the creepy weird urban legend horror stories from before us? Bloody Mary? Candyman? Etc.

How does one get from Ooo Creepy Internet Stories to LET'S STAB THIS GIRL 19 TIMES? This is like blaming heavy metal for Columbine.

Yes, of course he's delighted with this b/c of his stupid fantasy that autism is excessive maleness of the brain. Go away, Baron-Cohen; Uta Frith for the win.

OK, time to be a sarcastic asshole because ONLY ONE COFFEE. (and someone else told me to post this as a main comment)

Having the freedom to do something does not require others to support you in doing so. You may self identify however you want. You have that freedom. You do not have the freedom from criticism for your appropriative and/or harmful choices, if they are either of those.

I do SAR and yeah, they send people home at the threat of inclement weather because if not then you risk tragedies starting to pile up. Usually the trained searchers stay out in the rain (we get called for thunderstorms because of the threat of lightning, blizzard conditions, things like that, but not normal rain),…

But don't white feminists do this same thing when called on their bullshit? I don't understand making fun of someone for doing something that you do yourself.

If he is mentally ill (And I don't know that he is mentally ill. I mean, I think all religious people are delusional and it's just a matter of degrees but they are still considered sane.) then the responsibility is on his parents - who are aware of this actions and support them, if only tacitly - to get him help…

John the Baptist cried out in the wilderness and people went out to listen to him. This guy cried out in the middle of the town square and everyone left. I don't know about you, but I'd say that's a clear hint from God.

I loathe the term "purity." As a kid, I was convinced that I was "impure" because I had been molested at the age of 5. No matter that it was involuntary....I was fundamentally impure and tainted forever. An unintended consequence of this kind of "purity" education is that girls who are already sexually active or…

I laugh/snorted at this: It's just shocking how many instances of face-eating annually are caused by unmarried people touching their genitals together.

As we learned from Elizabeth Smart, this purity rhetoric makes things worse for victims of sex crimes. This bullshit does nothing but imply that sexually active women who are or were exploited brought it upon themselves through having sex, and it tells girls who were not sexually active before being exploited that…

Does she not understand that late-term abortion is incredibly, stupidly rare and generally done for medical reasons?

Yeah, that coincides with my experience and observation - you can take the most outgoing, unselfconscious little girl and at a certain age, she just loses it all. And it doesn't really come back. It's kind of heartbreaking.

I was ahead of the curve! I was never happy! Ha ha! Ha! ha...ha...sigh.

Seriously. Why do religious conservatives have to be so in-your-face with their sexuality? Can't they just be religious and conservative in private?