OH, ELDERCARE ISN'T A REAL JOB? Let me inform my nursing friends that they spend 60 hours a week doing volunteer work.

Really, I was fully expecting a, "what about the menz!" post. I don't get people. If you care about prison rape with men, write a post about it, I would love to read it. But when it is about a trans woman being raped in a men's prison, it is time to talk about trans issues, not men's issues.... Why is this so hard?

Letter Writer #2:

Um, the second letter writer's guy is a piece of shit. Caring for someone with ALS is spectacularly and singularly difficult, physically and emotionally. Never waste another minute of your life interacting with that man, and do look into a visiting nurse. You need time for yourself, whether it feels like it or not.

A woman was put in "protective custody" with a male registered sex offender. Yes it matters that she is a woman (IS a woman). You don't understand how not only was she allowed to come to harm while in protective custody but she was callously put in harm's way?
The way you speak of her "presenting as a woman" is just…

Oh, Carrie. Shut up.

As Testa mentions in her piece, trans inmates are 13 times more likely to get raped in prison than non trans inmates.

Lol, this reminds me of my wedding. Apparently, there was RAMPANT pot smoking going on in my extremely nice and not-smoking-friendly wedding venue, but I was completely clueless to it until after the event. All I noticed was that a third of the guests (all groom's family) kept disappearing, and I had no idea where…

I feel like if you have to make a point of asking that your friends and family 'not do more than kissing' at your wedding, you should get new friends and family.

I was an event coordinator and was witness to a bunch of taffeta draped train wrecks.

I went to a family member's daughter's wedding out of obligation. Not one of us (besides the bride's mom) liked the person marrying her 18 year old daughter. The wedding was held at a local church and the lighting was awful. I'm a hobbyist and I brought my camera. I went over to check with the photog to ensure I…

Hat-Themed wedding.

This is a wedding my parents went to, but it is hands down the most cringe-worthy wedding tale I know. My parents were invited to the wedding as friends of the groom's parents. The groom's family was pretty prominent in the local business community, so it was a big wedding - like at least 250+ people.

C-section.... I'm a guy and my abs were clenching in horror and feel like my spine wants to pop out and run away.

This is more about after the wedding than the wedding itself, but...

The 5 day wedding "weekend" in which the bride handed me a grocery sack and ordered me to collect 250 perfectly shaped river rocks.

Now, recover from your vaginal wince and ready your typing fingers for stories of weddings that did not go well.

Sometimes a girl needs some Smarmy Bullshit to have a good cry. The Notebook is enough for me...but all the actors in it are personal faves of mine as well—not sure if I would love it without Gosling/Adams and Garner/Rowlands.

Me on Friday Sept 5 at 12:35 AM: "I wonder what Nicholas Sparks is like to have sex with"

I don't blame him. If you have a phobia, it's really not okay to scare someone with that phobia—especially after promising them that you won't do so.