Cultish, The Majority Report, The Professional Left are 3 of my faves

Yes, you were lucky. It happened then, it happened in the past. I wouldn’t have *dreamed* of making myself a target by reporting in the late 80's early 90's-it was totally clear to me what would happen to me if I tried. I couldn’t even get support from family in those days

Yes! Talk talk talk! It was a commenter here on Jezebel who gave me the courage and incentive to finally try a cup (mine is Diva) and it is the most amazing, liberating item I have ever owned! It took a day to get the hang of putting it in right, and by the second day I was babbling to anyone who would listen about…

today I have PMS, so am definitely hideous and 1000lbs to boot, but ask me in about 10 days when I am ovulating, and I will tell you I am a goddess!

Well, just barely, plus the last election was rife with fraud and election manipulation...

there have been times where this was a very tempting option, however remedial act-like-a-human training is beginning to pay off!

Believe me, serious considerations of a future without him were very much part of my freak out. At this point it has been more than 2 years since he pulled this move, and has actually tried to reform. Really the only mitigating factor is his own family are very neglectful "sickness is for weaklings" dickbags, so over…

Honestly, I have experienced such radical neglect during illness I am *certain* a major illness could sink us altogether! It sounds crazy, but remember people do die of the flu, and I had an awful bout of flu full-force massive fever, puking diarrhea, the works, on Boxing Day, lucky, lucky me. Managing to raise my…

I was top at chemistry in my grade too, but soon dropped out after my teacher was way more aware of my breasts than my grades and creeped me the fuck outout

This was me exactly! Plus, by the time I was 13 I had pretty much lost all hope followed by 3 years of instruction with a nice guy who told great jokes, but would never take time to explain the work to me. It was noticeable that he allowed boys to seek a lot more help and assumed they could learn it if they tried,…

I laughed out loud and startled my cat after reading this! Every. Single. Guy. In my english degree program 20 years ago! Douchebros in hand knit Guatemalan sweater disguise..

Now THIS is an interesting perspective, and I remember those awful photos he took of Grace Jones

I think you need to watch Dr Who and "The Silence"... They are pretty much exactly what you are describing

As a very suspicious sort, and a Canadian resident (try looking up our only female prime minister's very short lived tenure), this move makes me slightly paranoid that Lloyd's is on the brink of an historic collapse, for which they would like a woman to be the figurehead! Other wise, yay, yay, 51% of the global…

I am so glad the hand sanitizer fetish is finally beginning to wear off! As a person with eczema and common sense, I take great pains to keep my hands reasonably clean WITHOUT resorting to rubbing snake-oil-alcohol-torture-potions on my fragile skin, and have encountered the sort of bizarre public shaming and…

12 years ago I successfully argued the point that our soon-to-arrive baby was going to have both our names, or mine alone, since, frankly, the only person who knows for sure whose child it is, is the one who pushes it out. DONE. My lovely dude finally talked me into making it a legal marriage a few years ago, and his…

Jesus, it sounds stupid, but I sort of mentally blank out that Michael Hutchence died, and whenever I remember that it bums me out for the rest of the day.

I completely agree with you here! I had the extreme misfortune to date a narcissistic douchbag like this guy when I was young and didn't know any better. He literally stalked me for twice as many years as the original relationship lasted. He would randomly get in touch, or show up at my new place of work, trying to…

yeah, no. as an idealistic young feminist i made the mistake over and over again of assuming the liberal egalitarian dudes i met in my women's lit classes were going to be totes cool with being asked out, but quickly discovered these dudes were JUST as likely to assume i was a throwaway skank girl (obviously, i see no…

Thank you, thank you