Ok, please, PLEASE don’t lambaste me for this, but I really hope that her parents had no idea what was going on. Because if they did, and didn’t pull her out of school/confront this head on/DO something to help, they are as much to blame for this poor girl’s death as the school is.

I think more aware. I hope more aware.

This kind of shit is my nightmare. My daughter is 11 and sorta revels in her nerdy weirdness, in ways that I adore. She’s way braver than I was at her age. But I live in the fear that someday some stupid clique of self-entitled douche classmates will decide to make an example of her for being off-beat one day and that…

lol I got asked out by a dude who bullied me in high school. I was at a bar the night before Thanksgiving. I had gone back to my hometown (a place I visit once a year, for Christmas, and can only handle being there three days) and went out with two friends I still talk to from HS. I immediately wanted to leave because…

Bullying has always been awful and terrible, it just that now asshole kids have social media to torment kids when they aren’t in school. I’ve been fat my whole life and my only escape from being bullied was going home or to the library. I did all kinds of self-destructive crap because of it and the only reason I…

The sad thing is, I would be surprised if any of those kids felt anything from her suicide. I would be surprised of the parents of those kids gave one shit about this. I would be surprised if the school administrators cared at all. Call me a pessimist, a negative person, a downer, whatever you want, but I think all…

I must admit, it gives me a special kind of joy when I see all the bullies I had as a kid now have sucky adult lives.

This might be the most depressing story to me too or at least, after so much godawful news this story managed to feel like a punch in the gut.

Wow. If this isn’t one of the best illustrations of white privilege, I don’t know what is. Cases like this are why I’m beyond done with white people who lecture black people about our “culture” or about how we need to “just listen to police officers” and “stop breaking the law.” FUCK people who say that when shit…

congratulations byu, for slowly approaching the bare minimum of human decency. you’ll get there some day.

Well, the church just barely stopped publishing a book by a dead prophet that says it’s more virtuous to die protecting yourself than to survive a sexual assault. So yeah. You did do something wrong. https://bycommonconsent.com/2016/04/28/rape-and-the-miracle-of-forgiveness/

They are doing this because the backlash isn’t going to help their falling membership numbers. Don’t be fooled into thinking they care about these women or other victims

Two tiny steps forward? Title IX and “mormon and gay”. {sigh} Too little too late. Too small of a movement. I understand it is hard to move forward, but this isn’t okay. It isn’t okay that every positive step you take is decades after the rest of the world has figured it out. It isn’t okay, that so much damage…

Utah’s one of those places I’d probably really like to live in if not for all the people there. Beautiful scenery, but easily the most unwelcoming state I’ve ever spent time in.

NPH is happily married with two adorable kids, exactly the thing that mormons are against. They want their gays to be forever alone and miserable

I believe Donald Trump is one of the handsomest billionaires that’s ever lived

I don’t know about New York but she could in Illinois. I lived on the first floor of an apartment building and some kids playing catch in the alley behind my building ended up sending a baseball through my guest bedroom window. I called the landlord to fix it and 3 days later I woke up to a man in my bedroom. I was…

Yes, because Barb is all of us. And we are glad that she is alive and having a good, albeit spooked, life. Barb is the chubby, sensible highschooler in all of us, who did our homework, followed the rules, treated others with respect. The overachiever who didn’t get invited to the cool kids parties. The nerdy girl who…

Make sure you tell her that being called a bitch or a whore or a cunt is FAR better than keeping your mouth shut and allowing people to assault you. While you don’t have to take it, at all, there’s still repercussions for standing up for yourself sometimes. Sometimes, it’s more than just namecalling. Standing up for…