“He’s either drunk and high and incapable of even standing up, or he’s drunk and high and able to attack her, chase her, land blows? It just doesn’t make sense.”

OMG my mom was the same way about BCP! She lost her shit when our family doctor told my sister what doctor/patient privilege was and said he could get her an RX for BCP without our parents knowing. My sister was very obedient so she naively told my mom.

Thank you.

And there is no similar ritual for the boys. I would be horrified if my teenage son “pledged” himself to me before marriage.

The sexual counterrevolutionaries seem to be meeting the sexual revolutionaries at the extremes of sanity. As usual.

Conservative, old, white men are literally destroying the country they’re short for.  Because, you know, they’re old and dying.  

I’m the daughter of a Baptist evangelical minister.  I learned nothing from my parents about sex, except how it should happen in marriage - no ‘mechanics,’ so I was terribly naive.  Then I started realizing I might be gay, which was a whole nuther source of shame and trauma.  When I finally came out, after I had left…

“At purity balls, teen girls wore white ruffled gowns and were escorted by their fathers.” It doesn’t help that basically everything about “purity balls” sounds like Beavis and Butthead level innuendo, but I don’t think we confront how deeply creepy it is to have your father that invested in your sex life often enough.

The less you say now, the less you have to apologize for later. Guess that little truth eludes you, huh? 

Pretty sure most of the worst genocidal tyrants in history were atheists (Stalin, Mao, the Khmer Rouge, etc.) People don’t need religion in order to be horrible to each other...

I talk over and over about my journey to get a PCOS diagnosis after years of excruciating pain - often to the point of passing out or nearly so.

I had doctors tell me I was imagining the pain and one woman who was at a gyno appointment told me to just take midol and get over it, because that’s what PMS is. At one…

While birth control is the most common reason people use the pill, 14% of pill users take it only for other reasons. And more than half of pill users rely on it at least in part for purposes other than pregnancy prevention.

When my pious Catholic friend got married, their priest filled their heads with so much “sex positive” shit like...

Funny that Republicans aren’t even trying to have consistent messaging any longer. Of course their rabid base doesn’t notice, but the rest of us sure as hell do. The quack Republican doctor running for governor here in Minnesota just did a major backpedal on abortion after the Kansas election. They’re all weasels. 

Oh, what I wouldn’t give to see this guy forcibly impregnated by an alien chestburster (the closest analogy I have for guys who start mansplaining to me why abortion ain’t no big thang). Then we could tell him how he should just get over it.

Simpler: ““I don’t trust any Republican”

Roe V. Wade happens and Republicans spend the next FIFTY YEARS clawing their way into the Supreme Court to overturn it.

I always like when the people who haven’t gotten over the Civil War say “Get over it” about things like the 50-year-old decision they managed to not get over.

Which is worse, that they’re allegedly running a cult grooming children, or that they’re single-handedly setting transgender rights back 50 years in the process by providing the perfect case for homophobic bigots to point to when defending their hatred?

How on earth do you manage to give credit to the US for this -- as a Canadian let me assure you that whether or not Canada stays in the Commonwealth has EFF ALL  to do with the USA/George Washington etc.  And nothing would be more apt to encourage us to stay than the idea that leaving makes us more like ...Americans. …