Aren’t arbitrarily drawn lines in the sand -fun-?!

the risk of using sunscreen—any sunscreen!—is equal to the risk of not using sunscreen, which is bullshit

Yeah, this was a part of the story I was super confused about it. Counseling a woman to “keep” an ectopic pregnancy is really, really, really fucking irresponsible. An ectopic pregnancy can kill you if you don’t receive treatment. Maternal death from eccyesis is pretty rare in the developed world but much higher in…

The “healthy tan” thing is funny, because any time your skin darkens from sun exposure, you’ve done cellular damage. I used to get teased as a kid for not being able to get a tan and called “sickly” but the ironic thing is my skin was probably healthier than those people with their “healthy glow.”

I used Aldara to remove a basal cell carcinoma on my neck and it was pretty much like that. The alternative was to have it surgically removed, but that would have resulted in a four-inch scar on my neck. All I have left now is the teeny little scar from the biopsy, but it was pretty gnarly at the time.

High five, fellow subway crier. After I got my heart totally broken last year, I openly cried on the subway more than once. Something about that long commute with nothing to distract me from the misery of my existence just brought out the tears.

This deserves multiple stars.

I had what I consider very good, comprehensive sex education from the age of about 7 onward. I didn’t learn about contraceptives till high school. Now, the kid could have encountered a condom outside of school prior to that, but he might not have either. It’s not out of the realm of possibility that an 8 year-old…

Uh, he didn’t just stick something in his mouth. He thought it was a balloon - you know, a thing you blow up using your mouth. Putting a balloon in your mouth isn’t weird or developmentally delayed behavior. Was it not that bright to think it was a balloon? Sure, but the kid is 8. He’s probably not seen a condom…

Lactose intolerance will not kill you. A real dairy allergy - i.e. one that causes an allergic immune response resulting in anaphylaxis - is not an allergy to lactose, but to a food protein, most commonly casein. The fact that you persist in referring to your “lactose allergy” (a thing that does not exist) is example…

You’re making a lot of assumptions there about what all partnered women think.

But there is no such thing as “safely on the other side of it.” Being coupled does not mean that you no longer worry or struggle or feel lonely and unloved. My sister has been with her husband for eight years, married for five. It wasn’t until they were two years into marriage and had a child together that her husband…

Oliver and the Rube Goldberg kid from Portlandia need to do a buddy comedy.

I once bled like a stuck pig after sex with a pretty big dude and he was totally cool about it. He cleaned everything up, apologized, and then bought me pads and ice cream. Because nothing says "Sorry I murdered your vagina" like a tub of Ben and Jerry's.

"I don't tolerate that kind of malarky in my house, little lady."

Yeah, except the poster failed to mention that lutefisk is actually soaked in lye, not merely salted. I think that's the key in making it sound sensible, haha!

And do people really wash their hair every day? That's seems a bit much even for me. I feel like your hair would never dry properly...

Eh, if I'm going to criticize anyone here, it's going to be the guy trolling for some strange on the internet, not the woman who had the temerity to hope that someone actually liked her. It was naive, for sure. But as someone else posted above, it sounds like she dated a lot of jerks prior to this particularly jerky…

That's totally the direction I thought this was going, too. Isn't it sad that we're relieved when he "just" turns out to be a scummy married dude?

Yeah, I'm with you on the terminology. I think "friend-raising" just came into common usage because it was a nifty little homonym, but I personally tend to use the more neutral term "networking" or "relationship building" for the reasons you state above.