Heck, I’m one of those people who really like the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I know that they are disgusting, sexist, mean pigs, and I still enjoy listening to some of their music. I think that understanding that the thing you like is problematic, being aware of it, and finding ways to distance yourself when you need it…

Yeah, I’ve found that the harassment has really lowered for me (I’m almost 26), now that I just have RBF all the time, and that I will yell at the person being a jerk out in public. You wanna be gross? Well, I’m gonna let everyone in this place know. In every detail. And that I am sick of it. Heck, my friends just…

Well, good on your for calling out the behavior!

Yeah. Super common. We as people think the best of the people we surround ourselves with. We don’t want to think our bestie is a perv. That is the problem though, when we act as if everyone we know is fine and perfect, we miss out on seeing realistic imperfections, and the missing stair idea happens.

I had friends who did that with me.

This is all I’ve got to say.

I’ve told members of my family that they cannot die of mysterious circumstances, because I would be considered the suspect. I don’t cry when it comes to natural disasters, deaths of family members, etc. But I’ll cry over a broken cup and spilled contents. I’m a very strange one.

It just feels so strange. I’m not good at making friends, and this really hurt. I thought I had sort of found my tribe of sorts. Now I know that it isn’t the case, but it seems so impossible. Like I said I would have never believed that this would have happened about a year ago. I’m working on accepting this, but I…

Thanks for the internet hugs. I just feel so mad, sad, and super foolish. I just can’t believe I didn’t see it coming. I try to be so aware of this nonsense, and I didn’t even see it coming.

“going to show* me what I wanted”

Hey all,

My friend and I were talking about the same thing today. CO is so wonderful, and I’m sick of seeing it being shot up every few years by people with agendas. Schools, doctors offices and theaters just seem to be less and less safe. I know people who still do not go to theatres because they worked the Aurora Theatre…

I am very late to this, but most embarrassing moment of crying was at grad school. I recently graduated, but my grad school was not a god fit. Awful in fact. I won’t name places, but I felt like I was in a mix of Game of Thrones and Mean Girls. Every. Day.

I’m so sorry that you are experiencing this. My stalking is sort of being resolved, but I don’t ever feel safe either. I fear that he will follow me home, follow me to places I may work at (I’m on the hunt for jobs), or that I won’t make it home and he will be the reason. It is hard to explain to others who aren’t in…

Yuuusssss. That would have been perfect. I also love plays on words, so that would have added even more justified rage for me.

For a second, I thought I was being trolled with the first sentence! Then I kept reading! Not a troll at all!

^This.

I get where you are going with this, however, I think you are missing the point. As consumers of media and “the present,” we need to be aware and cognizant of attitudes that were in the past, so that we can improve and be socially conscious. We as people can say, “Huh, this thing that people seem to really like right…

Yeah. 12 seems to be a magic number for people trying to take advantage of young girls. I was sexually assaulted at the age of 12. It is already a confusing time, and I just can’t even. I think it is a certain point where people see this child as somehow sexually available, and also trusting enough to get them alone.…

Either that, or a sidewalk made of d4’s Those things are literally the worst, and you are a literal monster if you leave them on the floor. Any tabletop gamer knows the anguish that happens when you dare to step on one of these creatures. I almost spit out an epithet of expletives stepping on one of these in the…