Your last paragraph is offensive and shows a lack of understanding about alcoholism. The options aren't black and white: you don't A) experience a full recovery or B) die of liver failure. There are people at every end of that spectrum, in various stages of recovery, including people who have tried AA, disliked it,…

I feel awful for the families of the three victims and I know it's going to be a difficult slog to rebuild after flooding. But I'm genuinely confused: Why is Canada's flood being covered on Jez and not the flooding in northern India, where 1000 people have died, thousands more are still missing, and 40,000 people are…

Oh my god. I was reading through responses thinking, "I guess I haven't really done anything like this?" But your post reminded me of two years of college: going to my crush's dorm, finding out he was mid-Halo-binge, and sticking around for an hour to watch. Not even pretending to be impressed as a grab for his…

Helplessly LOLing.

I love this argument for all the reasons you summarized. There are a minor handful of people who believe in no-abortions-even-for-rape-or-incest, but the majority of Americans support an R&I exemption, which means to me that they really don't understand what they're objecting to.

Careful when choosing your Gollum quotes, though. "We likes it raw, and WRIGGLING!" might actually backfire on you.

Okay, I used to have this problem with a roommate, not a lover. She's the kind of person who finds the silent treatment absolute torture, whereas I would rather not speak for a week than get into an argument. Her reason is that during the silence, she's imagining the worst possible thing I could be thinking about her…

Last year I was waiting on the Metro platform when a guy tried to start a conversation with me. His body movements and conversational gambits were setting off every creepmeter imaginable, so I took out my headphones and told him I wanted to listen to a podcast. He started going on about poor old him, how hard it was…

Take a look at another article that recently appeared on this site, in which Vice magazine published pictures of women committing suicide as a fashion spread. The general consensus of the comment thread there was that the pictures themselves might have been beautiful if they had been intended to convey something about…

Please don't worry about it! We all have our bad days, even those of us who are waaaaaaay over 17. :)

Hi missmeow,

I was going to post this upthread in response to andreabanadrea, but since you're trying to understand some of the issues, I figured I'd post it here. This is a longish video, but you can skip to 3:30 to watch a very straightforward Q&A.

I know it's not the point of this article, but that NBCLA video is terrible. I thought something was wrong with my computer at first. Then I realized that no, two videos weren't playing simultaneously, they had just layered News Anchor Summarizing Interview over Actual Interviewees Giving Interview. I'm going to…

People who think buying champagne is a prelude to sex, probably.

To be honest, that was my reaction too. That nose pinching one especially, but the others too when I really looked at them. I don't want to be the snarky internet asshole who says, "If she was being choked she would fight back!" because so many commenters above have said it reminds them of abuse they've witnessed…

A-fucking-men. A friend of mine has a terrible deadbeat dad (who is most certainly NOT going to attend her wedding, even if I have to spend the entire ceremony standing watch at the door). She's already announced that she plans to have her dog walk her down the aisle.

Amen. Also really hard: explaining to your family that they are dysfunctional.

This comment is an excellent example of privilege. I don't mean that in a putting-you-down way; I think it's a great observation. But it is exactly how privilege works: the privileged side assumes their life experiences are normal and anything that doesn't align with their experience is "other." As Trike said, you get…

Yay for toes in the water! Good for you for taking the plunge (and by plunge obviously I mean a slow and careful entrance made while fiercely gripping the ladder/side of the pool while wearing an inner tube and floaty wings, if the idea of a true plunge is too much). I agree, filtering out the baddies is the worst.…

That paragraph was the least convincing / most problematic for me. I'm having trouble nailing down why, but I think it's because he comes down on the side of "women feel like rape culture exists and I respect their feelings."