Same here. It’s like a carbon offset.

That’s disgusting. The government presents this sparkly clean image of the handsome/beautiful PC volunteer smiling as they help “third world” brown children drink water. THEN they send their women to areas of the world with high levels of gender violence, and basically hold them accountable bc they “knew” the risks.…

People are attacking volunteers because they know they won’t be punished. Look at how they were laughing at her. The Peace Corps are acting like they have no power. Well they do. To stop the programs. Kicking it Roman style means just that - you can’t override local laws but you can let it be known that attacks…

I had been working for about two years at Jimmy Johns. While it can be tedious at times, it was by far the easiest job I’ve ever had. They literally tell you exactly how to make the sandwiches in training and then you proceed to do that. A lot. I came in for my shift one day and the manager pulled me aside and asked…

People are looking at me funny because I’m silently laughing and crying at my desk.

Jamie Allmeyer’s story reminds me of my checkered history of ordering drinks in Utah. There’s the time I was told the wine special was “peanut gringo.” There’s the time my wife and I ordered two margaritas and had four individual glasses delivered to our table (Cuz, y’know, we each wanted two margaritas a piece. At…

I was raped by my highschool boyfriend, right after consensual sex too. Needless to say, the couple of friends I told were completely unsupportive because “if you’re already having sex with someone then why would he rape you? How could he rape you? You’re just looking for attention.” Fuck them—though it was a…

True. Asking for protection is too much. Totally outrageous. We should simply stop providing assistance in those countries for as long as their traditions include rape. The peace corp and all other American volunteer organizations should withdraw, if they are unable to protect their volunteers because that is a…

This was my story, also. It was my boyfriend, the person I’d had consensual sex with on other occasions. It can’t be rape - he loves me, I’ve slept with him willingly lots of times. I must be be mistaken because sometimes I enjoy some non-vanilla sex. I didn’t fight enough for it to be rape-rape; it was just a…

So I was ashamed that I didn’t feel grateful.

He was my husband - who also didn’t understand the proper meaning of no. I spent so many showers crying after. But honestly - that comment was the straw that broke the marriage.

Unfortunately, for the trendsetters, it can’t be about the results. It’s about the action. You did everything you could do to make the Peace Corp, and the government of Burkina Faso look at your case. It was miserable because it was first.

It will be a little easier for the second, who will make it easier for the…

Well, in other parts of the world a woman is no longer considered marriageable if she is not a virgin. Rape is only rape when you’re damaging another man’s property.

I thought about applying to the Peace Corps, and when I was younger I thought about enlisting in the military. For the military, I decided against it for a multitude of reasons before I was as aware of the sexual assault issues in the military. For the Peace Corps, the high risk of rape and assault was a major reason…

I’m writing this because I want to know why we don’t want to talk about rape when it happens to us. Why my best friend of 22 years only told me a few months ago that she was raped in high school.

That was heart-breaking... And this stood out to me

Fave editor’s note of the series.

popular chain restaurant that rhymes with “Crapplebees.” (Editor’s Note: Oh for fuck’s sake)

I can’t believe I’m becoming that person, but: I totally would have made that mistake. I live in Maine and I’ve never heard them be called ‘lobster crackers’. they are nut crackers or claw crackers. My brain would have jumped to oyster crackers, too. That being said, THAT’S WHY YOU ASK. All of these today (not knowing…

Jamie Layton’s story reminds me of a famous story I heard when I was working at a regional theater festival.