just wanted to say thanks for this article, I've never read any thing like it, and as someone who was molested for 8 years by my mother's boyfriend, it's extremely important to hear another survivors voice. My situation was different as he was not my biological father, but the feelings you mention were the exactly…

Consent is a simple word that overlooks so much. When a parent asks their kid whether they want to have sex, does the answer matter? Isn't the question wherein the wrong lies?

Fun fact: the US and South Sudan are the only 2 UN members who have failed to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, a treaty with the sole purpose of protecting the rights and well being of children (Somolia, another hold out, finally caved). One of the things it prohibits is subjecting children (whose…

Take it from an old(ish) lady who was sexually and physically abused as a kid by family; and who was in a horribly abusive relationship for five years: you are *far* more likely to live happily and come to terms with whatever has happened to you (I don't mean by that that you should or will come to forgive or feel…

I've been praying non-stop for a sign from God if I myself am making a good choice on leaving my abusive boyfriend, at this very moment I'm packing my things hoping for a safe get away while he is at work, I am more scared then I've ever been, scared because I know he will come after me but also scared because I feel…

I too suffer from blonde eyelash syndrome. I also have very fair, skin which ensures that the morning bags under my eyes are purple if I don't put on concealer. Add in ponytail and throw a knit cap over the whole thing so you can't see my hair, and people look generally concerned about whether I can make it to my…

When I don't wear mascara people ask me if I'm dying of stage 4 cancer, so Uma, I feel yew heavy.

Sounds positively Canadian.

Government should be small enough to only fit in your bedroom.

OMG, I am your opposite twin! I have stick straight hair and my mom thought it would be cute to perm everything BUT my bangs. I had big ol' poodle hair with this weird curtain of flat bangs in front. Not cute.

When I was drunk at school, I used to tell the principal that the little shits were trying to poison me with hand sanitizer too.

Heh heh heh...

This is the kind of outside-the-box thinking that we should encourage in children.

Let me add to the chorus...

Kenna needs to slow the fuck down.

In 7th grade I was trying to catch up to my friend by our lockers, so I jogged over to her and shouted "Kenna, wait up!" As I did so, I rolled my ankle, and felt it crack. I was just wearing flip flops! (Not even those sky high Rocket Dog shoes that were popular at the time). Teachers had to carry me to the office,…

Righhhht. And if you rape someone, you're a rapist. Despite what you think you are or what you think you feel about women.

She had her back done.

I would like to objectify a lemon cake right now.

I once ate all the maraschino cherries at the bar and then threw them up in my grandma's bathtub.

You have hiked 500 miles to a car before too? I thought I was the only one.