People always want an explanation of why it happened. The why exists in the mind of the suicidal person.

This is the perspective that’s so often missing from discussions like this. You’ve articulated it perfectly. This letter writer should never have been in the position they were in. Our parent’s marriages are not our responsibility and, to a much greater extent than many people are capable of recognizing, they’re often…

You were not responsible for your parent’s marriage. You were not responsible for your dad’s affair. You were not appointed, nor expected to be, your parent’s marriage counselor. You are their CHILD, not an unbiased professional. You are not responsible for your father failing to reach to your mother because that was…

For once, I agree with Fuck-Up here. You are not an oracle; you can’t predict the future. You can’t know that anything you might have said or done would have done anything at all.

I say this as someone who battles lifelong major depression and has attempted suicide. This is not your fault. It’s easy to fall into that thinking in your grief. People always want an explanation of why it happened. The why exists in the mind of the suicidal person. You have no way of knowing that, had your father…

About a year ago my dad died of suicide.

This is not, was not, will never be your fault, LW.

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 800-273-8255

From what I’ve seen, it sounds like she was a nightmare underminer of her academic colleagues, but: I saw at least one professor who’d made Fugitive Modernities a central text in a course they’re teaching in this brand-new semester and is now saying “what the hell do I do”—which is to say, she clearly had the academic…

We always say this, but she could have been an excellent and highly-respective African studies professor who just happened to be Jewish and from suburban Kansas City.

People did question her. Multiple Black women in her field found her suspicious. They weren’t listened to. The GWU hiring committee, and the department who gave her tenure, should be SO embarrassed at falling for this pathetic ruse.

Are people reading Marie Claire for journalistic insight?  

I’m not crying, you’re crying. Also, I’m crying.

YES.

Honestly, the only reason they have even 0.01% of my attention is because they make the Imperial racists so angry and I am petty.

Cakes, good.

There’s also a big difference between doing a gender reveal via a cake and starting a forest fire.

Party goers attest that other than a chunk of nannan’s skull landing in the punch bowl the party was an absolute blast!

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Oh, the plight of the pretty white woman.