It's an interesting position to be in, a non-believer in a nation that so voraciously believes. I knew by 14 that I didn't have any sort of faith, despite loosely being raised with religion (we were Easter and Christmas Christians). Once I was in college my parents returned to a church-going lifestyle, which greatly…

People can be zealots about anything, and demonize people who don't agree. Even atheists.

I find it hilarious that atheists, who emphatically do NOT join the club of religion, have a club. With meetings. It's brilliant.

I agree. It bothers me to no end how some atheists, and luckily I've only ever run into them on the internet, seem to take joy in bashing religious folk. I'm not religious myself. But to each his own. As long as you do good and your beliefs are mostly about spreading good what could believing in anything hurt?

My biggest problem with some of the more vocal atheists these days is the focus on religion being this horrible thing. I am not a fan of religion, but there are plenty of us people who believe in a higher power who aren't members of any church, don't push our beliefs on people and agree with the concept of evolution.…

I went to high school in Orange County, graduated in '08, and coming out got you picked-on only if you were female. All the straight girls wanted a "gay best friend" (male) to shop and gossip with. I made friends with several of these guys through theatre and it always seemed problematic to me that a guy who was…

Replied to my own post because the longer I stare at this title, the harder and harder it becomes to keep defending this site as 'feminist.'
We can't, as a community and in good conscience, talk about how media portrayals of rape are vile and then play the same game by creating and consuming content that furthers the…

All I know is my mother only wore make up to go out. And only then. I do not understand people who wear it all the time. And I hate having to wait to go places as my lady puts her on. And I hate how I have had to trash clothes covered with lip stick. And I think latina women look best when they roll out of bed. and i…

So... I kinda really want to watch this now. I hope it's available online or Hulu+, because I don't have cable.

It makes me so incredibly uncomfortable when I'm smiling at or talking to a little toddler boy, and someone brings up "flirting." Super gross. "Oh, he's such a flirt already." Awful. Notice how no one ever says that about a little girl smiling at an adult man?

I'm not a parent, and I'm not a pearl clutcher, but the whole cutisie thing people do with projecting adult relationships onto babies a la Prince George is super creepy to me. I have some Facebook friends who do this all the time — "already a lady killer" and "future husband and wife." Why?? Their entire adult lives…

I'll never forget how then-Senator Joe Biden helped my husband and I when the INS was dicking around with our green card application. He's a good guy.

So Leslie Knope has now signed on to Instagram, right?

I never thought a non-Sirs-Ian-and-Patrick selfie could possibly earn "best selfie" status - but you have proved me wrong.

I always thought he was a little goofy but when he took Paul Ryan's bullshit behind the shed and spanked him repeatedly in the VP debates, I liked him a lot.

This makes me want to listen to Interpol. Carlos D, where have you gone?

This is a VERY attractive haircut. I think stylists are just starting to give it to men without prompting. My husband came home with it the other day after visiting his regular hair girl - he is the lease stylish person ever, so I know he doesn't even know what it is. Anyway, he looked gooooood.

Everything old is new again

I've been calling it the "hipster high & tight" simply because I didn't want to call it "hitler youth." It has served me well.