Hey now, I think that’s inaccurate. I think the general GOP view of women is that we’re a clump of cells surrounding a precious new life. Even if we aren’t pregnant. (Certainly it is the view of their policies.)

I like this idea! Perhaps then my vagina will be tall enough to make MORE dumb decisions! It was hard talking it out of voting for Palin, that political goddess and all-around good person that she is, so now I have no more excuses. I’m just going to do that.

I absolutely have no plans to marry. I’m 38, I’m in a great relationship (poly; my bf is married) and I am freaking out about the fact that because of reasons that sound insane but make sense in detail he’s probably moving in with me for a week or two next month, because DO NOT WANT IN MY SPACE. I cannot imagine being…

My vagina sometimes has some very stupid ideas (see: most of my ex-lovers) but it is not tall enough to vote on its own, and also it’s not dumb enough to vote solely for people who share an arrangement of genitals with me. (Because let’s face it, the odds of either party running a trans person for national office is…

It is pretty damn late and I’m grey and I’m sure no one will see this, but I just have to say that I’ve touched on some stuff in at least one recent SNS that was going on at work, and at this point I am pretty damn sure (like, 90%) that I will be fired, but it is going to be hysterical when it happens because: 1) my…

Oh Christ no, you do not have to be friends with everyone. I mean, I am a ruthless, ruthless bitch when it comes to cutting people out of my life because I feel like I just don’t want to be around them for some reason (most recently, I dumped someone I thought I had a really promising friendship with because it turns…

Oh man, this was major for me to read. I have been doing a bit of off-and-on mourning of a friendship that was ended by the other party a couple years ago (actually, it’s just about the two year anniversary, I think). In hindsight, it was totally worth it that she stopped speaking to me (I challenged a major thing in…

I did that a couple weeks ago! I was just like “…NOPE!” about everything. I actually told a couple people to basically go fuck themselves, which was nice. I just have had it up to here with people being willfully fucking stupid at me, and while I retained enough sense to not tell off the racist I sort of work for, it…

Ugh, this quarter has been a beast, and has culminated with my having to call a welfare check for a student who is clearly in the throes of some kind of major mental event. I’ve basically been dealing with that most of the week and I feel like I’m failing my other students (I am, in fact, failing my students in one…

I have one on my jaw, near the hinge that is like that. It’s not there and it’s not there, and then I go to use the phone, and I touch it, and it is an inch long, and it’s like … okay, someone is gluing shit to me while I sleep, only explanation.

Jezzies! I have a question.

Yup. I’m into longline underwear (with cotton underwear underneath because reasons) because I like the high waist. I have the shortest waist in the universe, as it’s located right under my breasts, which means that anything that’s low-rise is going to roll in the waist. I’ve never found a pair of Spanx that didn’t,…

Depends on the hospital/insurer. When I had my abortion in 2012, I had it at the hospital I was insured at (an HMO), in their OB-GYN unit. But then again, that hospital/insurer does not fuck around about that shit and was trying to figure out a way to put abortion on the affordable care act plans they were offering…

It's funny - I have no religious faith at all, it's not for me, but I believe in an afterlife just so all the awesome people get to spend time together, and we get to meet our closest loved ones for all eternity, and my mother will get to forgive the dog she had that got hit by a car and bit her because of the pain…

It does! I had a best friend for about 25 years who I knew was in denial about a big part of her life, and I understood the reasons behind it, but I never felt the need to push till she asked me to officiate at her then-upcoming wedding (she got engaged at 13, broke up with him at 18, got married within weeks to…

I knew somebody back in college who had seven questions she asked everyone she met if they were in a position to become a friend. The only one I remember is "what color is your underwear" which I wouldn't want to ask at a speed-dating thing, but maybe look up unusual interview questions or something like that, where…

Try meetup. Try A LOT of meetups. I've had definitely mixed-bag success with it - the ones that I got into for fun have worked out better in terms of having friends I can hang with outside the meetup than the ones I got into because they were professionally relevant, but that might just be a feature of the fact I'm a…

My ex-bff and I were at a show sort of by The Academy Is… and they did a cover of Wonderwall by Oasis. Bearing in mind, G and I were at least 34 at the time, and the singer for TAI was probably 26, the audience was WAAAAY young. We may have been the only people in the room who knew the song other than the band. And I…

I am about 18 years post-reduction (had it done at 19, went from god-knows-what to, briefly, a C, then a D, and am currently a DD or, in some sizing, a DDD.) Honestly, the main thing for me was not having my nipples point at the ground. It kind of is ridiculous, but this was all ~pre Internet~, or effectively so, and…

My great-aunt married a man who was twenty years older than her. She made him promise that he would live to be a hundred, which he did - he was a couple months shy of 101 when he died. Since his death, she has done a couple of adorable things that I think are on par with your aunt and the photo, the best of which is…