He looked startled, then licked his shoulder. I think he’s impressed!

One of my cats has taken up sleeping on my pillow above my head. This wouldn’t be a problem if it was the tiny 7.5lb cat; no, this is the giant 20lb monster cat. So I guess, pursuant to your screen name, I have a Hat Made Of Cat. Also, I have migraines a lot now, due to sleeping with my neck in a weird position…

I’m white. Maybe if white people can’t “get it” about the horrors of slavery without seeing black people maltreated on the uncomfortably-high-def screens of today’s cinema, we shouldn’t be allowed any more attempts because we’re clearly not trying to “get it”. I don’t need to see someone bleeding and in pain to…

Target makes me angry with the way they place their maternity department - the stores I go to have the maternity department AND the women’s department together with no clear division between the two, which makes me nuts, because so many times I see something really cute and then I realize it’s maternity wear. Which,…

I might try sitting down with her and framing it around what she wants, because she is special to you, and you don’t want her to sacrifice her healing but you would like to include her in your special day if you can. I mean, I’m wording it badly, but I read Miss Manners and Etiquette Hell a lot and I really like the…

This is not at all related to parenting (unless you mean “a coping strategy you have evolved to deal with your parent who does not hear female voices”) but I’ve found that when I talk to my dad I have a tendency to assume he will not listen (correct!) and try to get ALL THE INFORMATION into the first sentence with the…

Good luck! Tuxedo kitties are my favourite, and yours looks like a black-and-white cookie. Perhaps you should try chewing on her tail and see if she is tasty? It could be the case!

If I wanted to deal with kittens, I would take up doing cocaine, which has the benefit of all the activity with less destroying things and crapping on the floor (I hear). Seriously, adult cats are love. You know what kind of personality you’re likely getting with an adult.

I had a well-respected gyno diagnose me with PCOS (I have literally no other symptoms) because I told her my dermatologist did a hormone screen for my cystic acne and found that I had elevated testosterone levels. When my mother tried to back up the gyno because she used to work at the same hospital and the gyno…

GET A NEW VET. I am not shouting at you, I am shouting because I am APPALLED that anyone could be that fucking rude to you! How unconscionable and monstrous!

Well, the thing is ... what I took away from my own experience (I did not and do not feel like a terrible person about it, because I AM a terrible person who doesn’t really care about those two asshats AT ALL) was “now I know something I am capable of that I did not suspect.” In a weird, terrible analogy, it was as if…

Ha, I’m the same age as you, and the other day I was lecturing my 34-yo bf about how our respective tastes in music ARE TOO totally generational, get off my goddamn lawn you asshole, I just seeded that shit. I would argue that teaching has totally exhausted my poor reserves of patience, but mostly it’s fun to tell…

Ha, I did that once. Fucked my boyfriend’s best friend and made sure they both knew about it, in ways actually more aggressive than taking out a full-page ad in the local paper would have been. (In my defence, I was working on the realization that yes, domestic violence and rape can happen to me too!) I would say that…

Short version: Nope.

YES OMG YES. I can’t imagine someone saying “Well, your cat has bad breath, sooooooo logical choice is FIV, congrats on the fake eventual death sentence I just gave your pet.” I certainly cannot imagine giving money to that person.

Get her actually tested for FIV. It’s not cheap (my kitty’s was about $50) but at least then I could make an informed decision as to what to do next. (Vaccinate my cat and find out that he is allergic to vaccines, that’s what I did next.) It is very quick - it’s a blood test, and my vet had results within minutes. We…

Yup, came to say this as well. And I find it HILARIOUS, in a very, very dark way, that the Deputy Health Minister is suggesting this. I bet birth control is super easy to obtain in El Salvador! I bet no woman will be raped by her husband if she decides to abstain due to risk! I bet any woman who gets pregnant in this…

The problem I have with it is that real manspreading is more than just to the shoulder width. I mean, I get it - I sit with my knees roughly shoulder width apart too, it makes sense (and sitting all prim and proper with my knees touching is a) uncomfortable, and b) makes me want to vomit by association with “good…

Widespread enough (har!) that Rhett and Link made a joke about it in their utterly hilarious Epic Rap Battle of Manliness. And I see it every damn time I ride the bus.

Probably if they got any complaints, they were from women, and it’s clear that women aren’t people here, so complaints from them don’t count. Which means there were zero complaints by real people, ie men.