I am careful. And poor pup! Glad he has a good home now.

Yeah, my dog is a lot like that. She's also arbitrarily terrified of things. If I'm meeting a new dog and I move my hand and see a dog look uncomfortable I stop. I'm bad with the human etiquette part, but pretty good at the dog etiquette — I spent 13 years working w horses, plus a lot of dogs, cats, a few chickens and…

Or, if going by most sold rather than most published, Dame Agatha.

Apparently, it's this guy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf_Kalm…

Which was a good thing for poor Rocky.

But whether or not that would have flown in your family, this child is not Harlow's monkey being fed milk by a wire "mother."

1. As stated in the article, the kid is affectionate with her friends, sometimes w her dad/grandparents, and often with her mom. It's mostly about strangers. Those animal studies were touch v no-touch, not consensual contact v consensual + forced contact.

It is also SO adorable when a kid you've interacted with for five minutes spontaneously decides to hug you goodbye. Kids do know what they're doing way more than we give credit.

I am bad at asking dog-owners' permission sometimes (I try though!), but I always always always offer the dog my hand first to see if they're okay being pet. I have also only once in my life gotten upset about a dog jumping on me, and it was because his very enthusiastic/friendly jump knocked me down a flight of…

I came here thinking maybe both of them had been equally drunk, and it would have been a complicated "her experience is valid, but so is his" deal, but, nope. Too drunk to notice she's too drunk to be doing anything? Believable. Too drunk to think gang-raping a girl and filming it is wrong? Nope nope nope nope nope.

Ahhh okay I thought you meant irrelevant or something. Yeah, it was pretty gross.

Um, I'm not, no, but the relation is pretty straightforward — guys sexualizing activities that are a) innocuous and b) really fucking gross to sexualize.

I read it as you can't express love while also spanking a kid. Not that you can't feel it, because that would be absurd.

You should be Princess Ron Swanson for Halloween!

Ah, but the Cool Chick is also not overly concerned with makeup, because makeup is girly. The Cool Chick looks impossibly hot with just a touch of mascara.

Dude, when I horseback-rode (which I did for 13 years), guys always asked me questions about how "close" I was to the horses. It was really gross. Seriously, is any activity safe?

I dunno, my niece spat up on my brother's hair as he was on his way out the door to go grocery shopping, and he just kinda wiped it quickly with a towel and then kept going. But, neither he nor my sister-in-law would go to work or to visit friends all covered in stains. I think it's context-dependent. (And after just…

"Liking sexy women" =/= "demanding that women exist solely to satisfy you, and prioritize sexiness in every single thing they do." And yes, lesbians can badly toward other women! And men can be wonderful feminists! But amazingly, despite these things, we still do live in a patriarchal society.

Isn't this the sexy mom costume?

Pumpkin-spice soup would be gross. But real pumpkin soup, which tastes nothing at all like pumpkin pie/pumpkin lattes/etc, is hearty and spicy and delicious.