And I specifically addressed the claim- the swing wouldn’t have existed in the first place. He could’ve slipped and died in the bathroom- but he wouldn’t have died because of the swing, which is 10000000% more preventable. And yes, people die in pools! Wow! Congrats on your google search skills! But the safety…

Do you think she’d be crucified by the general population?

SHOCKINGLY, amenities at hotels are inspected for safety- pools, gyms, saunas, ect. Most likely, had this been a hotel, safety standards would’ve meant that the swing wouldn’t have existed in the first place. I know, I know, logic is hard sometimes for the “any regulation is the death of everything because…

Yes and it’s really complicated, the conflicted feelings. I lost weight after I had my son, like from a 10 to a 4 and people are always telling me I look so good now. Well that’s great and it makes me feel good that you want to compliment me but then I start thinking, does that mean I looked bad before? Does this mean…

The negative feelings associated with weight loss are not discussed nearly enough. Especially if you felt comfortable with your former size. There are people who want you to hate yourself for being fat. For them weight loss reaffirms that belief, even when it is not true. When you lose weight, people start treating…

Most of what people say they hate about Obamacare is actually what they hate about their private insurance company.

Yeah...DS is normally great. But sometimes he doesn’t see past his homosexual dude lens. A girl called in saying she thought S&M was violent and she wasn’t sure she was okay with it, philosophically. His answer was just that everyone is different, and that he thought eating pussy was gross so she was allowed to think…

No, because Dan Savage has his own horribly biased and hurtful advice. His “no one is *really* monogamous”, “bi people don’t exist” and “fat people are deserving of mockery and scorn” are not the sort of advice pieces I want to encourage.

higher quality women

But that doesn't erase the fact that she did list some very reasonable characteristics and as a heterosexual female with many heterosexual female friends I can tell you. It is really hard to find guys that satisfy those very reasonable characteristics.

Growing up, the only people I knew who had guns were Vermonters with livestock. Gophers make holes in pastures that cows step into and break their legs (and then in all likelihood, you have to kill a two thousand-dollar animal, and might not even be legally able to sell the meat). Foxes, coyotes, and weasels slaughter…

I 100% agree. Which is, in some ways, worse. Way to use other people’s suffering as a tool to bolster your own career. I cannot wait until we can stop catering and pandering to the fucking nut job fundie contingent.

I honestly believe that half the time these dudes really don’t care. Like, they wouldn’t fight for equal rights, but they aren’t actively against things like marriage equality, either. They have to cater to the crazies, which is obviously an act of cowardice and oppression (not unknown to the likes of Obama and both…

Yes, please tell us how women only go for the asshole badboys, while ignoring all the “good” guys. I guess you view yourself as the latter?

It’s kind of weird that Gawker Media is directing so much snark at this teenager who at least seems to have realized that the world she was caught up in was not healthy and wishes to convey that message to others.

If I’m remembering correctly, Scientologists just believe that children are mini adults, and should be treated as such?

This argument makes literally no sense here in the old US of A. Mothers are entitled to 12 weeks of unpaid FMLA coverage and that is it. You can take FMLA when you need to nurture and care for someone else - albeit in your case it would be an ill spouse or parent. Caring for a fledgling life is the same thing in this…

You can use FMLA for things other than new children—sick spouse or parents. But it still doesn’t get you paid.

I feel like since some courts have decided that’s ok I think public shaming is really all we have left. Good on her for passing on some humiliation, honestly.