Well, more than that. It has happened more than once or twice a year. But 1) FILMING in public or semi-public bathrooms would still be illegal 2) you can't use "but what if" arguments to deny people their civil rights (I mean, I guess they are, but since 2012 lgbt has been a 'protected class' so I am 90% sure this is…

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For physical compliments, I try to compliment my female friends on things they DO control — a flattering dress, a badass pair of boots, a really great eyeliner look or new haircut — rather than the genetic or weight-related. But also yes.

If you live in a place where you can, walk everywhere. It's decent exercise, but you're also getting someplace, so it doesn't really feel like it/I, at least, don't think of it in the same way.

Ugh. I've never gone through anything that bad, but a four-month bout with mono and (separately) a semester of stress so intense I could barely eat (despite trying), the compliments I got were awful. I even told people, honestly, how I'd lost the weight, and they still insisted it was a good thing.

I am a smallish person (def not a BMI of 19 though), but the most I've been complimented on my weight was 1) when I had mono and 2) when I went through a period of stress-induced anorexia, which is different than anorexia nervosa — I wanted to eat, but I was so stressed I felt sick after more than a few bites of…

http://blahtherapy.com, http://www.7cupsoftea.com, http://psycheducation.org/treatment/psyc… — there are a lot of free or cheap options online for the meantime.

That is obnoxious. The wedding thing makes sense, bc then you can collect photos from a bunch of different people. That doesn't.

ALL OVER IT

Books on tape?

High five a million angels!

I have not, but I have had hellishly bad panic attacks, so I am just sending you an "I know those are the worst" hug.

I am agnostic, but when it comes to the deaths of people I love — memory and storytelling are incredibly powerful. I think in a sense people exist until there are no memories or stories left, so presence fades more than vanishes. I've had dreams wherein I have lengthy conversations with people who've died, and I am…

Yeah, honestly I'd have focused more on being told to go home to be with her kids. I would have had trouble not slapping my boss for saying that.

Well, SCOTUS didn't say any of that, bc they rejected her petition, and did not hear her case.

You just turned my look of pure horror/rage into an actual laugh. Thank you.

I doubt they knew; that would definitely skew the study.

I was pretty into math/science as a kid. Then, in the course of a couple years, I had one math teacher who regularly compared me to my older brother, who was better at math than me, and then a teacher who just seemed to have a vendetta against me (she gave me a C for missing too many classes sick, even though I had…

Where I disagree with Russell is on the idea that you have to "skip the fairytales." I think you can cultivate a spirit of independence in young girls without totally ditching fairytales, which are helpful in their own way. They are cultural artifacts, they exist in nearly every language in some form or another; they…

They get put on probation, pay a large fine, and have mandatory check-ins by a social worker weekly. "They system" isn't all that great, and being taken away from their parents is going to be significantly more traumatic for these kids than being left alone. They should be monitored closely, though, and the kids taken…