Congratulations to your mother and aunt for their sobriety, and you sound like a wonderful and supportive relative. I have been able to stay sober for nearly a year through AA, along with my Dad, Aunt, and Uncle (who have been in the program much longer). We all watched my grandfather, the meanest man I've ever met,…

Totally agreed, textbook description of a relapse, and actually having written it might end up becoming an important part of his personal journey; something to look back on and realize how delusional he was. I just wish Buzzfeed and now Jezebel weren't giving they guy a platform to spread his delusions to people who…

I'm sorry, but could you not point people to that Buzzfeed article? It was a how-to guide on rationalization. Moderation is great for some people (well most people in fact, because most people are not alcoholics), but that Joe fellow doesn't seem to be one of them. Anyone who obsesses about alcohol as much as he does…

I was about to make the same comment, "did his mother have him do that growing up?" I've met so many men that do this! They don't live with their mothers anymore, but still leave the dishes for "someone" to finish later.

Key and Peele are always better :) This bit works because it's making fun of white people telling black people how to pronounce their own names rather than making fun of anyone's actual name. (Explanation not for you lemon lyman, but for any "reverse racism" enthusiasts out there.)

Now I want the accompanying stats on who actually is faking it more!

Sorry that happened to you, what a shitty reason to break up with someone you care about. I had not seen that video, but it made me really sad. Great, so you begrudgingly admitted that you would date a bisexual lady if she were super awesome and perfect. Maybe. Ugh. There is a chance that anyone could leave you in any…

Hey, yeah it can be really frustrating. The worst for me is that even some of the "safe spaces" are judgmental. A lot of people in the LGBT organization when I was in college, for example, had the attitude that I was a straight girl "experimenting." I'm not sure how they didn't understand that having other people try…

I think this thread has been dismissed? So not sure if it is worth replying, but your comment is what I was getting at too. I'm not trying to hide my sexuality. If I am dating someone I want to bring them around and out with my friends (and acquaintances, since not all social gatherings are strictly limited to…

I doubt that HermioneStranger goes around announcing "I'm bisexual" to anyone who will listen. Relationships come up as a part of normal conversation (and for celebrities as specific questions in interviews). I have had acquaintances and classmates accuse me of the same even when we weren't having a conversation about…

If guyinblackshirt wants to stop feeling oppressed (in case you didn't know, guys in black shirts have faced historic and systematic oppression and violence on Jezebel) he could always take his opinions on over to Gawker. There are some people already on his bandwagon over there (though I would also warn him that he…

Sometimes you can offend someone completely accidentally. You apologize and move on. They will probably understand ("completely accidentally" assumes that you really had no idea that your actions would be upsetting—say you dressed up as a flight attendant and a family member of theirs had recently died in a plane…

"Micro-aggressions" is such a perfect term for how a lot of prejudice and racism happens. I wish it wasn't mostly stuck being academic-speak.

comeonpoppet19, I agree! I have also been having to have way too many conversations about privilege IRL lately. Nobody wants to admit to privilege because it is embarrassing. It means that maybe you didn't earn everything you have. It also doesn't mean you earned nothing. People, please just a bit more awareness…

I never said I was outraged. I think that my comment was extremely calm. I believe that dressing up as a member of a marginalized and oppressed race through the use of blackface (which has a history of being used to mock and further marginalize people of color) is offensive. I believe that you have the right to…

Dress up as their character without painting your face. For Crazy Eyes she could have just done the hairdo and given everyone crazed looks all night. She was with that OITNB group costume so people would have gotten it. If you absolutely cannot be recognizable as a certain character without doing blackface then…

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