I don’t think romantic relationships would be such a focus for me if my friends were more accessible. It’s really hard to hear the alternating, “You need to learn to be okay with being single,” and, “Just wait until you find someone” when your friends decline your invitations to hang out with their partners. I want…

That’s cool, if you want the exact same things that your aunt wants.

They have no context for YEARS of being single. I’ve had 20 years of nothing but free time. I have a million hobbies. I don’t need another fucking hobby. You reach a point where your “fabulous alone life” becomes a fortress that has no room for anyone else in it. People also don’t understand that Ummmmmmm I’m okay…

“I’d say that for someone who is open to the idea of love, it will turn up sooner or later”

What a lot of us are missing is the experiences that enable us to make the choice to be alone. Am I just supposed to....believe you? Why can’t I get married too?

When someone who always sings in English all of a sudden busts out with a song that includes one English word before veering off into a dialect that isn’t Spanish, French, Italian....I don’t think it’s unreasonable to quietly assume that she was just vibing it until you finally come across the real info. A lot of…

I wouldn’t say that’s true. Me, I don’t know any woman who cares about peeing next to another person who identifies as a woman. What we worry about is sharing bathrooms with self-identified men, and what could potentially happen if no one was allowed to monitor who used which bathroom. I have friends who’ve been…

s.e. has begun the transition to male (had top surgery, is taking male hormones, legally changed name to Simon) and yet somehow thinks they can still speak for women. It’s inappropriate and fucked up.

It’s honestly very frustrating that a male-identifying individual with autism is being allowed to act as the voice of socially conscious women. It tells me that women’s magazines value optics more than they want to be agents of potential change. The fight to maintain by rights is being treated like s.e.’s learning…

s.e. has been diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum. It absolutely explains why ou struggles with interpreting the words, actions, and unspoken intentions of other people, and it also explains why the rest of the xo staff is dancing around the issue.

I’m not sure you’ve been paying attention to the series. Dany is a great conqueror and warrior. I don’t think the show is setting her up to end up being queen, unless she teams up with Jon Snow or continues her alliance with Tyrion. She has dragons though, and she will certainly play a huge role in defeating the white…

That’s the same Teen Mom girl who got mad that her kid came home from his dad’s house with a “Latino” haircut. “Little white boys don’t wear their hair that way!” Except the kid is half Puerto Rican. Like obviously there are issues with a weekend (deadbeat) dad sending his kid home with a new haircut, but Kailynn’s…

I know we like to joke about the border wall, but do you realize that if Trump became president, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act would allow him to seize remittances to Mexico and use that money to build a wall?

I know we like to joke about the border wall, but do you realize that if Trump became president, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act would allow him to seize remittances to Mexico and use that money to build a wall.

When I told my friends that my ex went off his meds, became violent, and pointed a gun at me, they admonished me for not having more sympathy for the mentally ill.

The whole subtext of this piece is that he wants to keep freelancing instead of working on the books. He is most definitely under-reporting his income, and he’s probably not paying his taxes either.

Your wife will 100% understand why you bought 5 cans of something you always finish.

Your wife will 100% understand why you bought 5 cans of something you always finish.

I agree. Armchair diagnosis is largely pointless (we don’t know the person) and only serves to toss more bullshit out there, but I’d venture to say that MOST people who need serious mental healthcare only get it when the people in their lives realize that the person needs help. There is major value in keeping your…

ah yes, the guys my mom yells at on tv, when she’s not yelling at Jeopardy.

She’s beautiful!