agreed. it always somehow comes back to being the woman’s fault.

I purposefully did not respond to that because I felt like he might actually be trolling, but it made me so angry! Dude, the worst thing that happened to you was a slightly awkward social interaction, and not even one where you had to make conversation with the other person. That’s pretty damn far from being “treated…

Man, Pittsburgh never makes it onto Jez for anything good.

“Playing hard to get” and the notion that you can wear a woman down with harassment - sorry- “win her over” are extremely toxic and dangerous tropes. In the real world, when you show up at her door at 2 a.m. soaking wet and on a tirade about how the two of you are meant to be together, it’s not happily ever after;…

I met a guy at a party recently. He kept striking up a conversation with me even though it was clear (to me) that I wasn’t interested. At first, he said “wow - you’re a tough nut to crack!”, then “you seem so reserved - it must be difficult to get to know you, but I want to try! Say, Tuesday night?” (I said no). A…

EXACTLY! I’m not leading you on, being coy, or playing hard to get. I’m Afraid!!

“Why can’t women just be direct and honest if they don’t want to go out with you?!”

I liked those books, especially Dicey’s Song.

Everything will be okay. The mother had a nervous breakdown because the father died. The kids will wander from place to place trying to find an aunt that lives in Connecticut. The aunt isn’t very nice and makes them work and stuff. But then the kids will meet a really nice stranger hippy sort who will take them in for…

Mark, let me kiss you, you beautiful man! Thank you for listening to my plea, you’ve made me the happiest juvenile delinquent in Baltimore.

People are the worst, but here is a cat hugging a toy.

I don’t understand the human mind well enough, correction, the minds of partiularly brave and contented people, who, when faced with the prospect of almost certain death, can decide to die peacefully and with dignity. I don’t know if I could do it. I hope I could, if it were me. But I think of Dylan Thomas and Raging…

We moved when I was 7 years old, and in the midst of schlepping things out of the U-Haul and into the house, my father lined up, made his approach, and rolled his bowling ball across the front lawn of the new house.

He then turned to me and said “I’ve always wanted to do that.”

“Forgive me please, but that’s what you get when you play with people’s emotions.”

“She was going to be killed by this guy some day, somehow. She didn’t have to die that night.”

Hey, your friendly neighborhood ex-bouncer and security person here.

Thank you. I get so tired of hearing adults bag on teenagers. Yes, they can be exasperating, but most of the time they come by that honestly, because they're terribly anxious, and lack the life experience to know that they can survive how they feel, and that it can change. They're flailing, while trying to cover up…

ok my friend majored in art history and these were literally the same pictures she took during her semester abroad in Italy

Wow, you really have all the problems with being female all figured out. You would make a great woman.

Cool story, bro.