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I completely agree, with one small caveat... or not even that, just more of a comment on how this plays into a larger context... as a woman, I find that if I appear more unkempt, I am treated as if I am not capable or intelligent or able to perform my job as well. Thus, I frequently find myself having to choose

Oh, good, your single anecdote must mean that people with severe behavioral health issues don't actually have extreme difficulty achieving success at their jobs. Hooray!

I am a server. I average 25-30% tips on the weekdays and 18-25% on the weekends. If I make below 20% on average for a night, I get upset, because I work my ASS off - I will literally run through the restaurant in order to get to everything as quickly as possible, I am essential in helping to maintain the restaurant's

Please remember that:

There have been. A lot. This is about bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. They are not the same thing. People with severe schizophrenia do NOT tend to become CEOs, nor do people with severe bipolar disorder - they cannot hide their symptoms enough to get that far ahead, for the most part.

People keep commenting about psychopaths and the careers that appeal to and work for them... but this is NOT ABOUT PSYCHOPATHY. This is about bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Totally different ballgame. Yes, bipolar can mimic psychopathy at times, but they are not the same thing.

I like to think that being a totally crazy freak whose IUD has caused my menstrual cycle to stop is my way of dispelling such stereotypes!

Sorry, I'm booked for not-anal-sex for several months.

Thank you! I'm so sick of having partners act like it's just inconceivable that I wouldn't enjoy having something stuck up my ass. Like, yes... a little finger/tongue play can be fun, if the other person really wants to I'm not going to say no although I never ask for it... but that is NOT the same thing as having an

I used to have some stuff like this on my walls. In high school, I spent a lot of time researching human rights and genocide and racism, and participated in trips to a variety of concentration in camps in Europe, was offered a potential college internship at the ICC, saw trials at the Hague, met with survivors of the

Thanks! You know, I've occasionally thought "maybe I should have a career in the sex industry somehow" and maybe I should go write a sex advice column.

Also, you have no idea what patriarchy means, or what feminist means. Go to do some research.

You really don't get it... I have no respect for your opinion. Not because you're a man, but because you clearly are trying to cover up for the fact that you made a nasty, stupid reply in the first place, that was solely intended to denigrate feminism and feminists and lumped women together as a whole into your

You know, that was actually my first impression. But then I thought about it for a moment... as queenhobart said, it's not uncommon for people that repressed to really not know such things. Also, have you ever tried Googling something extremely basic? You get a BILLION pages that all say different things, and the

But that has nothing to do with what you wrote in your first reply. So, why did you write what you did? Seriously, what you wrote before in NO WAY indicates what you're saying here. Also, the concept of "women are awesome and can do no wrong" (which is not something that people here believe, but whatever, let's just

I work as a waitress, so while there's plenty of other women working in my field and in my restaurant, it's extreeeeemely expected that the ladies are all super flirty and want lots of male attention. I have confounded many of them by being pretty, dressing a bit provocatively, and not flirting with them. I'm not

Also, seriously... this lady is ridiculous. The last post before the one about her Jezebel thing is about going on tour and having to deal with places in the southwest where people eat processed foods, and she makes a nasty comment about people staring at her and her (black) tour companion not because they were

OK, so this will be unseen by most but in case the people who wrote in for advice are reading, here are some actual, helpful answers:

Yep yep. I refused to entertain the idea of meds, or that I even had a problem, despite my mom being a therapist and having very good proof that I was in fact a child with a severe ADHD problem. Finally in college I went on Adderall... changed my life. If I had started younger, I would have figured out a lot of skills

You're a better person than I am at this point... I was 14 when I was raped, still plenty traumatic but at an age where I was at least better able to process it and understand what it was... and I hope somebody assaults him with his own severed bits. If he'd shown any remorse by this point, I would feel otherwise,