I mean duh, but also no child is getting gender reassignment surgery at that age.  Like there is no world where that is even a possibility, it’s such a “well is men can marry men people are gonna marry their dogs!” argument.  It’s just not within the realm of reason.  I think the earliest I have heard of anything is a…

Exactly. Also can we stop these people with no backgrounds in early childhood development or psychology making these broad statements about what is and is not harmful for young children? PLEASE! Because as someone who has spent hundreds of hours both in and out of a classroom working with young children and reading…

Yes Candice Owens, as a leftist I am SICK.

Reminder, as it’s touched on above but important enough I think it merits a paragraph on its own: an increasingly prevalent form of herpes transmission for women is genital HSV1 from receiving oral sex from someone who has oral HSV1. Mouth/face lesions aren’t always noticeable or identifiable, plus asymptotic shedding…

Transphobes: “When you’re a kid, you don’t know anything about your sexuality or gender. It’s wrong to impose an agenda on them!”

thank you thank you for all of this very important information. this is why I struggle: I tested positive for the hsv-2 antibody in 2013 (a parting gift from my ex-spouse), but I have never had a major visible outbreak or any symptoms. however, I know that many people don’t have visible outbreaks right away. sometimes…

“We market to who we sell to, and we don’t market to the whole world.”

HAPPY FUCKING EVERYBODY!

I like Buttigieg but agree that he needs another 4-8 years preferably with higher stakes and exposure (governor or Congress).

I am in agreement that the stigma surrounding herpes far surpasses its actual impact, but if this is how Dr. Shah counsels her patients I hope I never have sex with any of them or for that matter, anyone who has hooked up with them.

Condoms do not completely protect against herpes, but they do reduce chances of transmission, especially for people with vaginas. If you have a vagina and are having PIV sex, your chances of getting herpes go down if the person with the penis wears a condom. Again, it does not eliminate risk; it reduces risk.

This is untrue. It really depends on where you live just like here. Are you in a busy, heavily populated city ? You might have to wait. Difference is that in the US if you don’t have insurance you will never be seen or end up in an emergency room where the costs get passed on to everyone else. For the most part…

That is Joan Summers of Jezebel’s words/editorialization, not Kathy Griffin’s.

Decked out in full-on camouflage hunting gear, Nugent wielded two machine guns while raging, “Obama, he’s a piece of shit. I told him to suck on my machine gun. Hey Hillary,” he continued. “You might want to ride one of these into the sunset, you worthless bitch.” Nugent summed up his eloquent speech by screaming…

I waited 14 months to see a doctor here in the good old USA. Back in April, I scheduled an appt. with a new primary care provider. When is the appointment? January 2020. We’ve already got the long wait times--it’s just that we pay out the ass for it, while Canadians don’t.

On the topic of Fairytale Reimaginings for young girls....I will maintain that Enna Burning, the second book in the Goose Girl quadrilogy by Shannon Hale does a FANTASTIC job of showing a predatory male character as a handsome charming man and have it be literally terrifying and soooo satisfying when he finally gets…

I don’t really get why you brought up something like the Alanna series.  Alanna as a character wants to get into a more masculine field, but the books have lots of female characters who take all sorts of paths in life, and the books never imply that girls who like more traditionally feminine roles are wrong or silly. …

The re-examining of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast wasn’t even all that quiet—it was loud enough that Disney felt obligated to address it in the recent live-action remake. They definitely made an attempt to flesh out the romantic relationship more and explain why Belle would actually be drawn to the Beast in spite of…

I had a really hard time discerning the ~point~ of this article. The title suggest that Improper Princesses are a problem, the conclusion just talks about how Beauty is different from the rest of them (which I don’t entirely agree with, having read a lot of IP books in my day). Is it just a literary critique and…

Do we seriously take Belle as good role model, and the Beauty and the Beast story as good one? The idea that woman’s love can change an abuser and make him loving and polite, is, sorry for an overused word, toxic af, it’s literally the core of entire rape culture, and I understood it when I was 6, watching movie for…