I've read about organizations making good progress against FGM because it's women from those cultures that do the work. These organizations definately deserve our finacial support. Amnesty is a great organization that I've supported a long time, too, but I agree that they should leave this issue to other organizations more based in those cultures.

I don't think that male circumcision is as much of a tragedy (except when it gets severely botched) because the man is still able to feel sexual pleasure and orgasm. That being said, I don't understand why it is still considered acceptable to remove a baby's foreskin. We actually have the power to change the cultural attitudes about this one, so I think that we should work on it. It's too bad the only people mentioning this issue were big douchbags about it, as if feminists are all foreskin-removing hypocrites.

That someone could care about issues that don't directly affect them individually, I mean? Why do you have to make elaborate speculations of someone's motives for professing to care about the future? He has children, for one thing, and even if he didn't he would still care about the future because he is a caring human being. So many people have a cold and lonely existence because they can't bring themselves to care about what doesn't directly affect them. I understand that it's scary, but trying to keep that urge to care alive is part of remaining a whole person, isn't it?

I'm attracted to people more by the personality and intelligence, but I know that makes me kind of abnormal. For most people aren't attracted to people who they don't consider good-looking for some reason, and it makes it hard for both men and women who aren't conventionally good-looking to get as much play.

I would probably caution a friend who might want to move to a town with those demographics for those reasons. You know, the whole "the odds are good, but the goods are odd" kind of thing.

P. S. I felt the need to weigh in although I consider myself attractive because I'm vain.

I really hate being called ma'am. It makes me feel old. I'm not ashamed of my age, but I don't think I'd like being called ma'am if I was 100. Just makes me feel crotchety.

Maybe your mom was being a "slut" when she gave it up to your dad.

I got a little emotional reading it because it gave me inspiration. I'm a secular person, too. I don't think he's saying we have to bridge the gap, but just that it would be nice to have this way of thinking for people like us that want to have a way to articulate the sacred in nature and to know how our lives are connected to that and have meaning. It really inspired me to try to learn as much science as I can. Bios 101 and Chem 110 were more difficult for me than I'd like to admit, but I enjoyed the challenge and did well. I have a bunch of much scarier science classes left, but reading uplifting ideas like these motivates me even more.

You made a comic around Christmas that communicated how it helped you to think about how your brother would want you to enjoy the holiday. I lost my sister this summer, so reading that around Christmas was so nice, I can't even tell you. Her birthday is coming this month, and it will be the first birthday that she's not with us, and I don't know how I'm going to handle it. Probably not well.

I just want to thank you so much for doing your thing. I love comics so much. I've always admired your work, but I've loved your more personal stuff more than anything, even before my sister got sick. Thank you for sharing, and I'm sorry to be so cheesy.

that's all

"Your" was totally correct in those instances and I don't know why I tried to post a correction.

I'm taking Chem 110 and I just had a test tonight and my brain is a little fried, unfortunately. Sorry about that. I wish I was more adept.

They obv. only hired Linda Hirshman to drive up traffic, which is fine as they are a business and all, but she is obnoxious and should probably just be ignored. I won't get started, but what angered me the most is when she argued that Megan doesn't have the right to critize the military's handling of rape because she didn't report it when she was raped when she was 17. She was in a different country, she didn't trust the judicial system there, and she was about to leave. She was brave for writing about her experience. If Linda Hirshman was always like this, I feel sorry for the students that had to have her as a professor.