SO sorry you went through that. Unfortunately, loads of women do, and we're all pretty much fucked from Monday through Sunday for decades later; good luck eliciting sympathy; the college grads at Jez are often the worst for "shut up" "that would never have happened at my school, you went to the wrong school" and/or…

I don't think that telling the stories of women who have been assaulted on college campuses and then had hellish experiences with the administration counts as unfair generalization. I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that rape and the way it's handled on college campuses is a near-universal problem.

Thanks - in a very round about way I think this —and unfortunately a few other instances of sexual abuse afterwards — made me a stronger person. I was incredibly sheltered growing up and that was a tough thing to go through my first time being away from home. My mother was supportive and did everything she could to…

God.

Can we talk about how shitty the care is for survivors after they've reported, esp confidentially? I mean, yes, we MUST do all we can to end it, but in the meantime, can we make universities be more accountable to the people who have suffered (likely as a result of their shitty policies)? I am just hoping (selfishly)…

I've been telling people this for years. Colleges don't give a flying fuck about the safety of their students. They care about attracting high schools kids to come to school there and give them money. Point blank period end of discussion.

Try a little reading next time—- many promising studies are being done that are tying certain genetic mutations to autism, and while we're not yet at the stage where this can be done in utero (which would allow mothers to abort those fetuses if they choose to, just as 90% of women are doing when diagnosed with a fetus…

Well, one thing that I think contributed to me changing my mind was the fact that I worked exclusively with people who were in their late thirties and older. This means that I worked with people who were about to or had lost their parents. They all had siblings that were heavily involved in their care. (If they…

By 2022, 1 in 9 children is projected to be on the autism spectrum. That's the silent pandemic operating in the background of the rapidly-failing human genome that nobody seems to want to talk about, and it relates to the very tough decisions would-be mothers need to make. Because suddenly it's not just about, "Can I…

OMG. WUT? That's the only birth control I need.

Well then I stand corrected and as a result just lost the will to live because some blogger has an opinion about having kids.

Wellllllllll.....since half of Americans read at an eighth grade reading level or lower, this sounds about right.

Insert: "But it takes a viiiiiilllllagge to raise a child" mixed with a backbeat of "But notttt MY CHILD who is a saint and would NEVER endanger a driver and fellow bus passengers with his/her behavior, putting all their lives at risk! Leave MYYY child alone! Only OTHER PEOPLE'S CHILDREN should be raised by the…

Ah, you must be new here. At Jezebel, questions of decenting opinion are neither appretiated or answered.

My school bus was heinous and I was in fights daily. Mostly, I fought kids who picked on other kids because I couldn't stand the craziness.

I'm sorry, but sometimes elderly people can be horrible. They know you have to show them respect because of their age, and will absolutely abuse you because of it. I used to be in a line of work where I almost exclusively worked with elderly people. So many were behind sweet and kind, but those horrible racist ones…

And dads, stop commenting on your daughter's physical features. Absolutely off bounds.

My dad started calling me fat when I gained weight in my 20s. I told him that if he continued treating me in such a mean, uncaring way, like a stranger, I would be forced to curse him out and possibly assault him like I would a stranger who spoke to me that way. He stopped. However, when I finally flipped out on my…

My mother just died because no one took her complaints about severe bubbling/uncomfortable gurgling in her upper tummy plus nausea and sudden lack of appetite seriously; they put her in the "heart problems" profile instead of looking for GI problems until she bled out from an undiagnosed ulcer.

I've published humor material (online, in mags, in newspapers) under my real (female) name and a male pen name.