Agreed. I hate when people respond to school shootings with "wouldn't it have been nice if passers-by had firearms?"

Heh. Mostly I verbally browbeat him with other people's stories (especially about gaming and how in women in nerd circles are treated) and told him that his never having seen it doesn't mean it's not there. After some hysterics once or twice about how women are conditioned to fear the world and be prepared to always…

I've been pretty ragey about this crap lately as well. Although I'm bothered by the idea that your man-person still shows you your own personal brand of sexism. I yelled that out of my husband long ago.

Oh I know that feel. I'm a Master's student, and I haven't gained that much weight since I started grad school almost 2 years ago, but it's been really hard to find time to work out and while my weight has only gone up a few pounds, my body has definitely changed. I'm anxious a lot as well, and that makes me just…

WHAT is with all the sheer boob-panels?

Yeah.

Holy shit. :( I'm so sorry that happened. Thanks for sharing your experience, I'd actually never heard anyone's personal experience with why a warning would have been helpful.

Bah! Star Trek puns make me uncomfortably happy.

I'm definitely struggling to keep that weight off. I eat pretty well, but in the US I have to work out and eat well to stay at a lower weight. That apparently wasn't the case in Europe.

Aghh, I wish I had a whole foods in my town SO BADLY. I don't know if my problems are with GMOs (and as someone who works in agriculture research I'm disinclined to think so) but I think we process things like crazy here.

I don't know what it is we do to our food in the U.S., but we definitely must modify it somehow that the Euro nations don't.

That article confused and irritated me.

Seriously. Close your damn mouth for one fucking picture, jeezus.

Was her job just to stand around the natives with a stupid look on her face?

That would be different than an altercation, being that it is a threat.

Yeah, how dare she talk about an unusual job that none of us are particularly familiar with just to share her experience? What a narcissist!

I think being attacked by a stalker and defending yourself and punching someone because they sad a mean thing are WAY not the same thing.

Just seems like inappropriate boundaries to me. I hate my sister's boyfriend/fuck buddy, but I keep my piehole shut because she knows that I'm not a huge fan and if she married him I'll keep my piehole shut then, too, because it's her life, not mine. The only thing harping on my distaste for him would do would be to…

That seems like a supremely inappropriate thing to tell someone on their wedding day, true or not. :/

I am really torn between enthusiasm for the burgeoning LBGTQ rights and acceptance, and fear that I'll actually see the banning of abortions in my lifetime. It's frustrating and scary.