The Military Industrial Complex and Police State — if you think the wealthy and powerful consider your rights fungible, you’re right. Anything and everything is fungible if it helps them amass more wealth or power (preferably both). And who does the US Government overwhelmingly represent (because corporations are…

OMG my mom was the same way about BCP! She lost her shit when our family doctor told my sister what doctor/patient privilege was and said he could get her an RX for BCP without our parents knowing. My sister was very obedient so she naively told my mom.

Oh man, sounds familiar. My mom didn’t teach us anything about sex, puberty, etc. - she never took me bra shopping (my sister and I got hand-me-down bras from my friend’s mom), never bought tampons or pads, nothing. We (and many of my classmates) did an after-school class that taught reproduction in 5th grade, and…

Thank you.

I find the sex positive crowd as infuriating as the sex negative crowd but for vastly different reasons. Way too many weirdos and perverts justify predatory, manipulative shit under the guise of sex positivity.

Brutal.

I’m the daughter of a Baptist evangelical minister.  I learned nothing from my parents about sex, except how it should happen in marriage - no ‘mechanics,’ so I was terribly naive.  Then I started realizing I might be gay, which was a whole nuther source of shame and trauma.  When I finally came out, after I had left…

Just don’t judge whatever a victim’s family says, okay? Their 18 year old daughter/sister was strangled to death and some white lady journalist made it the world’s entertainment. Imagine being put through that. It’s a lot to expect them to be super-rational about it all. Also not clear what the rational interpretation…

“At purity balls, teen girls wore white ruffled gowns and were escorted by their fathers.” It doesn’t help that basically everything about “purity balls” sounds like Beavis and Butthead level innuendo, but I don’t think we confront how deeply creepy it is to have your father that invested in your sex life often enough.

Agreed.

I don’t know how anybody takes comfort in the idea of a god like many of them describe and worship.

“Oh, we can’t possibly know his plan. It isn’t our place to ask.” “He created us and everything; we just need to be grateful.”

The morning after her wedding, she refused to look anyone in the eye and she did NOT want to talk about her wedding night.

I talk over and over about my journey to get a PCOS diagnosis after years of excruciating pain - often to the point of passing out or nearly so.

I had doctors tell me I was imagining the pain and one woman who was at a gyno appointment told me to just take midol and get over it, because that’s what PMS is. At one…

A god that created humans to be curious then immediately punished them severely and forever for exercising that curiosity.

I’ve read enough of that type of comment to not interpret it as generously as you. Regardless, my point about Google or the search feature on the website (which is actually quite good compared to its many problems), still stands.

When my pious Catholic friend got married, their priest filled their heads with so much “sex positive” shit like...

My parents weren’t even religious, and my sister’s and my entire upbringing was focused around avoiding sex and men. My mother terrified the two of us with a bunch of sex Ed nonsense that wasn’t true, and if we did “do something stupid and get pregnant,” we were getting abortions.

I love these disingenuous comments. “How dare you write about x when you should be writing about y.” They did.

Like I need another reason to burn this motherfucker to ground.

That aw shucks bit works on a lot of people, I’m sure there was nothing off the cuff about that statement.

If he’s “not that smart”, then how did he graduate as valedictorian of his high school class and graduate in the top 1% of his class at the University of Georgia, huh?...