Humor will not be tolerated!! -Portia

Good luck, Portia. I agree with Black Sheep - it's so much easier to be upfront with people about it than dealing with the shame and weirdness of trying to keep it all under wraps. And I'm speaking from the experience of keeping it a "secret" for too long (my current living situation is ma...

ugh, they have your cell number? Also, I should never have registered to vote. This is stupid. It looks like from that link you can send in a request via snail mail to have your name removed? It specifies the request must be notarized (ridiculous) and they've only granted eleven removals (see here:...

Oh gross, I'm on there too. And so is my cellphone number. (I'm not even a Utah voter anymore!) Thanks for posting about it, Portia. Their removal policy explanation makes whoever runs this site sound kind of crazy...

AHHHHH I WISH I WERE IN UTAH! I'll just be over here, pouting.

I guess if you say you don't believe in anything or just stop going, then the Mormons think you'll come around. I guess if I revert to my family's pre-existing Presbyterianism or something, then it's a little more of an active rejection? This is interesting to me, because I've always felt the oppos...

Second, I sometimes feel bad for my TBM family members or friends who are struggling in the Church! Just thought I'd throw that out there. It is a little bit of grieving. I want to tell them about the things that I have learned about the Church, and about how if they could just see that then their ...

I love reading history tidbits like this, Mico, thanks for sharing!

Hugs to your face.

This question was discussed in the topic "Mission Guilt" where no fewer than 7 people on this board thought that the threat of commiting suicide made the sex nonconsensual and therefore sexual assault, or rape. The "victim" should therefore feel no guilt for having sex, because ...

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That is a beautiful photo series, thank you for sharing it.

This article just popped up in my RSS feed a few minutes ago and I thought some of you would enjoy it: http://bitchmagazine.org/post/believe-me—my-daughter-is-transgender Treating a trans person's experience as being "just a phase" is... gross. It makes my soul hurt. Basically, ditto to ev...

Hugs to your face, TBS. That is all.

I own five and I hate every. single. one. Guys, nursing bras are the WORST.

I picked the moderate option, though I don't wear lipstick/gloss (gross) or eyeshadow. I'm an eyeliner and brow powder kind of a girl, but that's it. So I guess that's moderate?

Aw, reading your answer, Mico, made me wax nostalgic for our Anti-Conference weekend get-togethers. Good times. *sniffles* Katydid, I basically ditto everything Mico said about building yourself a non/post-Mormon support network. Even if your interactions are mostly online it will help a lot. And ab...

I've always been more interested in a career than full-time homemaking, so when my husband and I got engaged, we spent some time figuring out ways we could have a family together while both having our needs/expectations for career fulfillment met. The original plan was for the partner who made the m...

I would peruse Groupon or Amazon Local for cool activities to do in her area (if you live near her, you could always do the activity together). That way she can try something new and she'll be able to schedule it for when she's available. See if you can find something she's never done before, or eve...

Does anyone have recommendations for places in Provo? I haven't had too much trouble with finding a good bra because I'm only about a B, but I still feel like I should get a professional fitting just to be sure. I've actually had great luck at the VS in the Provo Riverwoods (down on University Ave)...

One point that was brought up there was that marriage is currently defined as being between a man and woman, but at other times that has not been the case (both polygyny and polyandry have been practiced in the Church's history). With that definition having been in flux not only in the history of s...

However, my other roommate was also from Utah, and she used to keep a Costco-sized flat of Coke in her closet and pretend to be a lesbian to get out of dates. I'm breaking my streak of silence to say that pretending to be a lesbian to get out of dates is beyond bitchy, not to mention highly offensi...

Just finished the last of the lessons about rape. We had a really good discussion. However, one of the kids was adamant that it was at least a little bit the main character's fault. If she hadn't been drinking, if she had fought a little more, if she hadn't wandered off alone, etc, none of this wou...