Yeah, I’m not Googling it either. If I get hit by a bus on my way to work, there is no way I want “Republican... duck jammies... possible prostitute” in my search history for someone to find.

jfc. that poor girl looks like she is trying to make a hasty exit, stage right, from her skin.

Imagine making a stripper look that uncomfortable just at your very presence.

Texas tea party Rep. Blake Farenthold (R), who represents an area that is directly in the path of Hurricane Harvey

I assumed it was plagiarized from a D&D sourcebook, but maybe that’s just because of the font.

I read this excerpt and it made me think I could very easily be a famous YA author. The writing is horrendous, but also, her lack of a thigh gap is her great flaw?

To the “if they can’t do the splits crowd”: well then he should have cut her. The answer is never to physically harm your students.

I completely agree. Your friend’s take on this is so strange to me. Like, if splits are required, and she can’t do them, then she can either try to work toward them, or she doesn’t make the squad or whatever. If this poor girl is one of the (probably numerous) people who are just not built to do those kind of splits,…

Not to mention your friend’s attitude leaves no time for people to actually get good at something. This girl is a freshman, where the hell was she supposed to have already conditioned to be able to do the splits? (I mean, I get that now people start their kids cheerleading as toddlers, but THAT’S A PROBLEM!)

You are one hundred percent right. Sports culture in this country is disturbed. And the toleration of bodily injury and pain is probably the worst thing about it. Throughout high school, college and grad school I’ve watched star athletes be praised for doing the exact same thing: injuring themselves and then taking on…

Whoa whoa whoa, wait a second - people were actually defending this? I mean, aside from being unfathomably cruel, this is a plainly stupid way to go about getting people to splits. What good is your cheer team if they’re injured so badly they can’t move their legs?

Some light digging on FB unearthed a former acquaintance of this coach who was accusing him of stealing from and ripping off former gymnastics facilities, families, and students.

Oh Fuck off. I don’t let pervy old men ruin my sport. Are we banning dance, beach volleyball and gymnastics while we are at it?

I remember being a middle school cheerleader and I was one of the few girls who could do the splits. My art teacher found this out and thought it would be a stellar idea to force me (threatening me with a detention for insubordination when I initially declined) to sit in a front split for 20 minutes so that my…

As a former high-school female cheerleader back in the 70's, I can confirm that splits are:

1. Something you need to work your muscles into over a period of time

I’ve torn ligments in both my knees and it is so painful you can’t even imagine. The worst part of it is that it lasts forever. You can get surgery and scar tissue can form but it’s never the same afterwards. I have to wear a leg brace just to get through a long day at work sometimes, and during all physical activity.…

Ha! Oh, yes, risking hypothermia every winter evening so I wouldn’t have to carry a jacket in a bar (and then set it down somewhere so I could dance, of course). Lord, what a numbskull.

Unfortunately when my son was about three, in the tub, when all of a sudden he exclaimed, “Mama, there’s a hole in my butt!” That shit was not in the parenting book.

Just a reminder that there is no genuine track record of Satanist child abuse anywhere in the world.

Christianity’s record, however...

I remember this horrible craze so clearly—in terms of the horrible, destructive impact on our country and our culture, it was a case of journalistic malpractice as egregious as the political coverage that destroyed Hillary Clinton and gave us Mad Donald.