Yeah, it’s honestly hard for me to come to terms with because we’ve been a group for a while and I don’t think they’re malicious but I have to be real with what I’ve been noticing. At least college will make a “breakup” easier so this happened at a good time.

I’m so glad this thread is here. I feel so much of this stuff and I feel we all have our own experiences with it that we can share our perspective from.

Really sorry to keep commenting but you and I are SOOOO YOOUUNNGG. I feel what you are feeling so much but don’t lose hope. I’m honestly feeling validated knowing I’m not the only one.

I just want to thank you again for your advice to me when I made a similar comment.

Sorry to keep commenting but so much of this resonates with me. I did a summer program a couple years back where we created a really unique and great community and leaving was really tough. For a while, I craved the exact same environment/community but gradually it got less desperate. I won’t lie, we kept in contact…

Yes, as a person in the same boat, this is good advice. My shyness has been my worst enemy in the process of trying to find a person to be with romantically. You just have to go for it. Of course, as she’s a woman, some will see her “going for it” as her being desperate/slutty but those people are assholes anyway and…

Hey, I’m a dude on the verge of graduating from high school and I recently posted about being in the same boat (never kissed, never had any sexual encounter, no “Best friend”, loneliness, etc.)

Starting to realize my friends aren’t the greatest people. Between not including me in conversations and things for no reason, a lot of mean “jokes” and never being very supportive and now fretting about including our mutual friend in things because he’s not “part of our group” while one of my mutual friends…

But where would that leave black men like Ternece Crutcher, even if that’s true? And I think if black women made the laws, they’d be more partial to my idea than yours.

Yeah, I was just thinking about how no one ever assumes a girl being shitty to another girl could be doing it because of romantic feelings for them. Or boy-boy. It’s insane to me that it ever became a thing, much less that we tell our kids when it’s bothering them.

I don’t agree with you about Franken or the apologies (I thought the first was ok but subsequent ones weak) but that is a fair position to take.

That may be true, but white women have also shown their racism and shown they are a threat to black people so they can’t be trusted with them.

My thoughts exactly. Just what I think about Franken. Why keep a guy like that in office when women in the state have fought for progressive values as well and aren’t gropey assholes?

You liked Franken’s response? If I remember right, wasn’t it rather weak? (I didn’t remember the events that way.)

Apparently, people feel Babe.net treated him unfairly or something. I thought they pretty accurately explained what happened, its affect on Grace, and the conflict between the persona Aziz portrays in his comedy, the fact that he of all people should know about romantic signals and when a person is into it since he…

What did they do that was so wrong? It’s been a while since I read it, but I thought they simply characterized how his actions made “Grace” feel.

I’m surprised that some seem so defensive of Ansari. Would you feel different if you knew that he literally intensively studied romance and what people, including women want before writing a book on it?

I must say, I don’t understand why what Ansari did is considered so much tamer than what CK did. In my mind, chasing a woman around a room, continuing to initiate sexual acts after she said she wouldn’t like to engage in any on this date and shoving your fingers down someone’s throat without their consent, literally…

How about just black women.

This is exactly my thought! I feel like no one wants to bring up the possibility of their kid turning out shitty.