The problem is when you suggested that because it's your experience, you considered it less likely that this is a true story.

I want to respond and bump the thread so that it's clear how much of a problem victim blaming is even amongst self described feminists. You have written angrily and hatefully about women who are so off their faces they're screaming obscenities at strangers, and can't tell who's trying to help them and who's trying to…

OK, the point you make about women being encouraged to get drunk is a good one. You did a major disservice to this point by leading with rag dolls and jism receptacles. However, if we make an effort to step in before predators take advantage of drunk women, if we teach men that an inert body is not a sexual body, and…

Your post is dripping with disdain.You clearly see these victims as making it worse for all women. What you don't see is that this mindset IS rape culture.
No fucking shit it's a bad idea to get obliterated. Do not derail a conversation about rape by making it a conversation about drinking. The only reason those two…

If you look in a mirror in a dark room and say "Joshua Calvert" 3 times, an energizer bunny wearing a fedora will appear and never leave. Some days I wish this site would be renamed "Do not acknowledge Joshua Calvert".

Exactly. Though I know "I'd fuck the accent right out of" somebody is not a less-lofty sentiment than some I've expressed about famous people, I have never actually contacted these famous people to tell them about my important dirty thoughts/jokes. That's shit you say to your friends when the person comes up in…

Well that's actually interesting. As I said before, I am interested in examining how the realities kids are growing up in affect their health. The conversation you're starting is one that is useful, unlike talking about how people screw up their kids based mostly on info gleaned from trend pieces and occasional…

And how many kids were hospitalized because their parents had no idea about their severe allergies? I know a lot of adult friends who have only recently realized that they have some of those allergies to a nonlethal extent, and now spend a lot less time with stomach problems and feeling fatigued. I am as leery of the…

As a childless person who doesn't even live in the US anymore, this...sounds true enough. But do you really have a vantage point from which to observe how kids spend their time? I'm not saying you don't, but a lot of people have opinions on other people's parenting and I think it hurts the dialogue.

As a childless person who doesn't even live in the US anymore, this...sounds true enough. But do you really have a vantage point from which to observe how kids spend their time? I'm not saying you don't, but a lot of people have opinions on other people's parenting and I think it hurts the dialogue.

Awareness of more cases of depression does not necessarily mean depression itself has become more common. Yes, it's important to examine how the day to day realities kids face might influence their mental health, but there's no real need to ask "Why are kids today so much more depressed than when I was a kid?"

I've read through it now and I still feel that Mr.Coffin would benefit from writing from multiple perspectives. As I read through, the weakest parts were the ones where he spoke for what JT or others were thinking as they spoke. He might describe their body language, but then he would make a large mental leap to what…

My husband and I have a running joke that even if you have ten shopping bags, you have not actually been grocery shopping if there's no baguette poking out of the bag. It's not just ads. Movies, TV shows, cartoons. You can't unsee it!

I will give it another try. I think the writer has real talent, and I do want to give it a fair try. However, when I share my writing I am hoping for honest feedback and if Mr. Coffin is reading these comments I hope he finds mine constructive.

I think it was original labeled fiction because it reads like fanfiction. About himself. "This could change everything." "I've got to do this on my own"? How about "It sounds cool." and "They are only giving me one ticket, sorry."?
I can't lie, I didn't finish. The tone is so off-puttingly self-aggrandizing, and so…

Yes, you're right, women's breasts don't embarrassingly and visibly change size frequently over the course of their lives. Instead, they grow pretty rapidly most cases and then stay like that. Sounds pretty awesome to you I'm sure, but no matter what size your breasts are, and no matter how gradually they grew or how…

Please refer to the inspiration for your own awesome username. That's a crazy huge generalization and it is, as has been pointed out, super duper wrong.

I am 100% confident in the awesomeness of the Santigold song. Do we really have to wait till November?

I am sort of replying to this whole thread, because I find it very interesting that with so many responses, not one of them is "I cry on purpose sometimes to get what I want". There's a fair amount of "I know someone who totally does that", but that's just an assumption. It proves nothing. Unless someone has told you…

It's hilarious that he just came out and said in the interview that the was only apologizing to avoid hurting book sales and his teaching rep, when to an outsider like me he clearly deserves to lose both. That interview he gave is screamingly tone deaf. While trying to defend himself against accusations of sexism, he…