My husband gets annoyed with my habit of immediately locking the door behind me, as it’s resulted in him being temporarily locked out for a few moments if he lagged behind to check the mail or move the trash can or something. He’s generally an ally, but he doesn’t quite understand that, while it’s a temporary…

I literally cried reading this. Having to walk around a world where almost 50% of the population are bombs, ready to explode lest you touch it wrong is a horrible way to live and we as a society should not tolerate it. As a male, the female experience is totally foreign. Male socialization is the exact opposite…

After Christmas, I went to pick up my car from the body shop. As I was waiting, I asked my service rep (early 40s white dude) how was his holiday. He said horrible. He proceeded to tell me that he found out his grandfather molested his aunt (his grandfather’s stepdaughter) and his other aunt (the grandfather’s bio…

Holy Granola. There are so many people commenting on this article saying “maybe you just shouldn’t be so hypervigilant”. I guess they did not bother to read to the part where the author says she has PTSD and hypervigilance is a symptom of PTSD.

I used to bartend and on several occasions I stopped intoxicated women from leaving with men they clearly didn’t know. I would get the women a cab home and send the men away. “You’re mean” one guy said to me, to which I just replied, “Yep.”

I hate that this is a truth of being a woman.

My vigilance and suspicion isn’t based on an experience but an assumption that it’s only a matter of time. How depressing.

Before I even start reading—shout out to Hanna Barczyk for the illustration. Really striking.

Thanks for writing this. I was assaulted by an acquaintance who mistook my basic friendliness as reason enough to break into my bedroom in the middle of the night. For a long time after, I was worried about being the kind of girl who “led boys on.” Everything I tried to be growing up as a shy child - kind, friendly,…

Exactly. The protesters were clearly in the balcony above the legislators, so both literally and figuratively, this went over their heads.

The backwordsness of the whole thing is what boggles me. You’d think that the sort of older conservatives that elected Trump would be the first to line up against “those damn commies”. Then again, I thought that the christian wing would have a pretty big problem supporting a guy who keeps ordering wives out of a…

Watching this video gives me the exact same feeling as watching my four-year-old do anything that requires basic fine motor skills.

There are some lessons that are fun to teach with role-playing. Things like “Have A Constitutional Convention” or a “Lincoln-Douglas Debate.”

Congrats! Meanwhile, since my original post I’ve had a miscarriage and a baby, she is 6 weeks old today!

SPOILERS

As someone who took 7 days off of class when I gave birth to my son in my first semester of law school FUCK THIS FUCKING BITCH RIGHT IN HIS UNLUBED ASSHOLE.

I wish we could get Tea Leoni to be SOS. I figure just from filming almost three seasons of Madam Secretary has given her more experience and skill in diplomacy and dealing with world leaders than this assclown piece of shit

That made me tear up.

Thank you for writing this. My first child was stillborn at full term. Following her death, my ex and I tried to have another baby for 3 extremely painful years which included 1 miscarriage. I wish I had words to explain how hard it was to not only lose our baby, but to then deal with the awfulness that is…

My wife and I were on the same ship as you, then this little nugget of joy came around this past June.