Now see, I don’t get that at all. The nipple chafing happens because your shirt or bra is rubbing up against your skin as you run. But your vaginal walls aren’t rubbing up against each other when you walk or run. A tampon would just be held there by the vaginal muscles, right???

I didn’t say it was a publicity stunt. The original video was very clearly a concerted effort to go viral and was absolutely designed to market their family to a broad, public audience. The announcement of the miscarriage? I’m not cynical enough to suggest they only did it for publicity. I’m questioning the way some…

It depends on how you are understanding “private.” If you take “private” to mean you must remain silent, never speak it of and pretend it never happened (even amongst your loved ones), I don’t agree that’s a good thing. I don’t even think that people must necessarily restrict this topic to discussions among family and…

Saying that this couple clearly has no boundaries is not the same as saying that miscarriage should remain taboo and no one should talk about it. Talking about miscarriage with your loved ones, friends, family, or therapist is very different than “going viral” or trying to use the experience to market your life.

On the one hand, it’s good that more people are being honest about miscarriage and how common it is. A lot of women think they are to blame for their miscarriage and don’t realize how often it happens. I think it’s a good thing to encourage more couples to be open and seek support, if they need and want to.

These photographs are very Kate Chopin, The Awakening.

Welllll....if she doesn’t want to call it rape, I respect that, and the right of all survivors to define their own experience. That being said, by the definition of the law and according to her own deposition, he forcibly penetrated her with his penis, so yeah. Unless she’s guilty of perjury, that’s rape.

And maybe people who could USE rehab as a place to address the underlying issues that manifest as pot abuse, will never do it because they think it’s embarrassing.

Detoxing from heroin is not the same as marijuana withdrawal. And your point is...? They’re different substances. This bullshit hierarchy of what is and isn’t a “real” addiction based on the substance is really harmful and stops people from seeking help for legitimate problems. If you’re using a substance and it’s…

Sounds like she failed out of a course that was required for admission into her university faculty. The article doesn’t really explain it very well.

I was assaulted as a teenager and followed a weird sort of emotional trajectory in regards to it. At the time, I experienced deep feelings of shame and humiliation, but I didn’t recognize that I had actually been the victim of a crime. I felt violated but I didn’t know what it was that had actually happened to me.…

I am looking for to that so much it’s ridiculous.

I’m 31 and on the cusp, too, and yeah. Neither generation is particularly relatable to me.

Considering how fucking terrible I am at just getting a menstrual cup in and positioned correctly so it doesn’t leak, I’m never, ever using a diaphragm. It’s one thing to accidentally stain my underwear, but it’s quite another to accidentally find myself pregnant.

Also, a TOXIN is different than a TOXIC substance. A toxin is a type of toxicant that is biological in origin. It is not merely any substance that allegedly causes ill health. As soon as someone uses the word toxin to refer to anything other than a poisonous substance produced by the living cells of an organism, I am…

I think it’s “right” to be mad at the other (wo)man, if they knowingly engage in sex and/or a relationship with a married person. They might not bear the same kind or degree of culpability, but they are a participant in an unethical action and they are responsible for that. Cheating takes two people. Sure, the other…

My failure of acceptance arises from the fact that a brain sitting in the head of a biological male cannot possibly know what it is like to experience the world through any other lens.

Yeah, it’s one thing to say “fuck being likable” in regards to relationships (especially of the romantic variety) because while loneliness is a real (and potentially debilitating) thing, I don’t need a relationship the way I need a job. I can cope with loneliness, but I can’t feed myself and pay rent without a job. So…