I went to UVA and I just want to reinforce the obvious: whether Jackie's story was straight up fiction or just had minor discrepancies, the depiction of how Virginia handles rape cases was absolutely, terrifyingly accurate. The way that people are already using this to discredit rape survivors and give the school a…

marble mouth getting taken out by an angel is all well and good, but can we please talk about THE GREATEST ED SHEERAN PHOTO OF ALL TIME:

Fuck it, we're starting a Male Ass Appreciation Thread.

I got divorced after one month. We were together four years, we lived together, we did everything right. Unfortunately after the ring went on he decided to get mean. Really mean. And when he hit me, I left, and it was embarrassing, and painful and still one of the best choices that I ever made.

You can go ahead and file that under "Things you shouldn't say to a recent divorcee"...but, from personal experience (divorced after a year and change, and witness to many good friends' failed marriages), I can tell you that some people wait until they are married to reveal their true colors...it's as if once they are…

I hope you realize that you just said, "I did it this way and look how it's worked out so obviously people who did it a different way are stupid" or whatever. Like, gratz dude I'm glad it's going well. Tell us all your secrets to marriage.

1. Stop judging. Rude.

I was married at 22, divorced by 24 (I wrote 25 in another reply, sorry it was right around my birthday) and I will be remarried at 28. And oh my lord, I am getting some reallll awkward comments from people, and so much side-eye. But it's not the people that really know me.

Okay, I might just be young and naive here, but one of my good friends recently went through this (married at 23, divorced at 25). I found that there is only one appropriate thing to say, which is "I'm here to support you. Let me know whenever you need me." And what followed were a lot of nights around a bottle of…

I can't speak for anyone else but personally I have five go-to meals that happen fast with a minimum of prep work:

I honestly don't know how families with two busier earners even make dinner. We could do it, but damn. I think a lot of the weekend would be spent prepping for the week's meals.

I co-sign everything you've said with the exception of "can't". I submit that with all the brouhaha about "manly man roles" that they've been both consciously and unconsciously socialized around but can't articulate, and the institutional refusal to make workplaces more egalitarian for pretty much the same reasons,…

I thought I needed to do this. With five children I was looking at part time work so I could continue to do everything at home as well. But part time work is hard to come by and you hardly ever get to choose what *kind* of work you do if the hours are paramount.

Single mom here, with a perhaps unpopular opinion. My life is actually easier post-divorce. My ex thought he did enough of the house work and child care, but to him that meant giving the baby a bath maybe once a week, doing the dishes once in a blue moon, and running to the store when we ran out of something. I find…

Wow...If we were at a bar, I would be going on and on about my current situation; wondering how my optimistic high-achiever feminist 21 year-old self turned into a bitter, sad 40-something housewife. Right now I am trying to draft an email turning down an very interesting position that is, alas, full-time. It has…

All of these problems can be avoided by discussing with your partner what's going to happen when kids come before you get married and before you're expecting. AS LONG AS BOTH PARTIES THEN ACT ACCORDINGLY AFTER THE MARRIAGE AND THE KIDS COME. I see this all the time in comments sections. Ugh. Wow, all you people who…

When I was a student there, if you spoke publicly about your rape the case was dropped by the school board. That's how a friend ended up graduating two seats away from her rapist. She spoke up at Take Back the Night.

Or when you are any woman at all nearing the end of pregnancy.

Unattainable standards of buttne.

If you were a member of the Dale family, we'd have demanded to see it over Christmas dinner, or asked for a thorough description of the color and consistency of its contents.