or, worse, drunk adults (presumably the majority of people in bars)

Yeah...I also feel like generally teenage girls don't need to be told to count calories, or go into bars with drunk adult men.

Woah. I was actually just trying to figure out what seemed like dissonance between your first, totally rational reply to me and the latter one. Then, I thought people were piling on you unfairly bc your first reply indicated that you were generally sympathetic towards, well, people as a whole. In my first response to…

Huh. But you then acknowledged it is also a problem for young people w chronic health problems?

I do have chronic health issues — read oldscrumby's response to what I wrote. I think their first post was just very poorly phrased and communicated something quite different from what they were getting at.

Except none of my valid criticisms would be solved by putting more republicans in the senate...

It is a real issue for people with babies, or young people who aren't in perfect health (I need a lot of different meds, so having a doctor who knows what's up is really important). However, when they say "won't let you keep your doctor," they mean "the millions of formerly uninsured Americans who can now afford basic…

Yup; I have only asked for different tables recently bc of a debilitating back injury/the inability to slide in and out of booths. And that I ask for couched in an "if it wouldn't be an inconvenience, could I actually sit...?"

I mean I can see myself failing to have my ID handy bc I am an idiot, but I'd know enough to be really embarrassed and apologetic.

Thank you for sharing, seriously.

Wait, first you say that you don't see the distance to an abortion clinic mentioned, but then you actually quote the part of the article that mentions the distance? Am I missing something? And where are you seeing overseas? I am not saying that she didn't get the pills from overseas, but I just scanned a few articles…

Once you know you're pregnant, it's too late for plan B. And if the doctor prescribed something for you, yes, that's a way around it, but also super illegal (and could theoretically get the doctor in trouble too). I dunno why her daughter was uninsured though, unless neither parent had it through work and didn't…

Is there a petition or a fund-raising effort or anything for this mom? What a shitty shitty situation to be in.

I mean, right, so would I, but I do find it plausible that the mom either didn't stop to think about it or just didn't know.

Yeah. I think there ARE men who say shitty things more out of bitterness than hate and some of them can be reached. When guys say things that are super-sexist but I don't think meant badly, I try to explain very gently why those things are super sexist. These guys, not so much. And also like, being lonely SUCKS, but…

Eh. I don't think any of those guys are gonna turn into amazing feminist allies if/when they start getting laid. If your reaction to being unhappy in life is not only to hate an entire group of people but also viciously attack those people, you pretty much suck.

A quote in an AMAZING Jill Lepore article, from a dude 60+ years ago: "Most of the terrible women one must meet, women with the blatant views and voices, women who have to be noticed, who can't take life quietly...[insert pseudo-science bullshit about making 'sex-adjustments]."

Yep. And not remotely new. A lot of women who talk publicly about feminism get death/rape threats on the regular.

It's not even that! It's, yes, I'm sure that when you decided to drive drunk, you did not intend to cause a massive accident. But just because you didn't intend to injure a bunch of people and cause thousands of dollars in damage, you were still being dumb and thoughtless and you *did* hurt a bunch of people.

1. A list of names published anonymously is nowhere near sufficient evidence, so that would be pretty dumb of them.