Yes. I spent January having a micro-meltdown and February helping my best friend deal with her father's death. 2014 and I are never going to be friends, I can already tell.

Boys. Sigh.

I'm so, so sorry you're going through this. If you think you might need it, store the Suicide Prevention Hotline number in your phone: 1-800-273-8255. There's always someone at the other end of the line ready and willing to talk to you; you shouldn't have to go through this alone.

OkCupid has done a lot of pretty thorough analysis of their users, and one of the data points they discovered is that highlighting your quirks is actually better for you than trying to cover them up. As other commenters have said, the person's going to see your teeth when you meet in person, so if it's a problem, why…

Thinking back on it, that was a once-in-a-lifetime chance to throw a glass of water in someone's face. And I wasted it. Wasted! *Shakes fist at sky*

I'm in a slightly similar situation, except the guy has latched onto the fact that I am a flaming LGBT ally (though not gay myself), and now seems to be going out of his way to say homophobic shit in front of me to rile me up. She's given me all the same excuses - "It's so strange that he says those things, because he…

Hope you're okay! Sorry to hear how bad it is down there. Anything you want to share? Not sure we in the States can do more than listen & bear witness at the moment. :(

Ugh, you just brought up a memory I wish I'd forgotten - my mom and I at a restaurant, seated next to a table of three, clearly a father-mother-daughter. I was the daughter's age.

Boo, sorry to hear it. Pizza eating, beer drinking, TV watching, and a little shameless sobbing are all perfectly valid tonight.

Do tell: what did you do for speed skating? I desperately want to steal this idea.

We(eeeeee!) are
Never
Ever
Ever
Getting warmer weather.

Yeah, I'm surprised that wasn't its own article, that's how jarring it was for me. I had to stop & rewind to be sure I'd heard right. I remember seeing their 2003 VMA performance with 50 chicks kissing each other and thinking, "Oh, this is okay in the mainstream now? Cool." Another commenter said upstream that their…

NO CHARACTER ARC. Bingo. Starts strong, ends strong, but never actually has to overcome an obstacle that can't be solved with strength = underwritten.

I think there's a difference between writing a "weak" woman and simply writing in a pair of talking tits with no backstory, motivation, or personality. "Strong" women can be just as underwritten as weak ones because the SW has become a stereotype of its own. How many action movies are there in which the women are all…

A ton of these threads are people saying that Ron's so sweet and loyal, blah blah blah, but in my mind he was basically a jerk to anyone who wasn't Harry or Hermione. (And sometimes to Harry. And sometimes to Hermione.) He's that "nice to you, but not nice to the waiter" guy, and that's the complete opposite of…

Does he think we get automatic paid maternity leave in the US? Because I don't get this logic at all:

I want a detailed examination of his "case studies", which may very well be...confessions of rape?

I'm having a hard time reading you. I don't know what you mean by "it's ironic" — are you saying the app is ironic (if so, again, I don't understand what about the app is ironic), or do you mean your initial statement was sarcastic?

I appreciate the responses. I do know that already; I was just trying to write a list of things the GOP would like to whitewash out of our collective history.

Sorry, it's been an exhausting day and I'm not going to read this in detail tonight. I do know the complexities of the Civil War, I was just trying to write a quick and dirty summary of all the problems I have with the GOP's educational reforms.