Totally.  Normally, if you’re unable to do your job, you’re fired.  If you’re unable to do your job in a way that adversely affects someone else’s health, you should be fired quickly, and possibly exposed to legal action.

I really want to get a job at one of these assholes’ churches, like as a preacher or something, and then just literally never show up because it’s against my beliefs. I’d send a stripper in my absence. 

WTF. This makes me so, so angry. If you cannot do your job because you have decided to make up rules about what women can do with their bodies based on some old myths, you don’t get to have that job.

This seems unnecessarily rude.

Marriage is hard enough without feeling like you are competing with the ghosts of relationships past. 

With this in mind, I think I Tilda Swinton was passed out drunk next to me on the train the other day.

Just out of curiosity are you describing Greenfield Village and Cedar Point? Halloween at Greenfield Village is a pretty magical time for my Tiny Time Bombs, so much so that when I mentioned maybe we’d give this year a pass they experienced heartbreak on a level that blindsided me. (they’re 8 &9 and we’re going)

I’ve never been in a haunted house, and I don’t have any really dark trauma in my past (just the normal amount, I’d say), but I am, like, a human woman. I would definitely need one of those necklaces. No way in hell would I sign up for strangers touching me without warning in any context, let alone for what is…

Same, I was an abused kid. And first time my older sibling took me to a haunted house they came at us with a real chainsaw (without a chain, but I didn’t know that being 7) I went right into survival, fight or flight mode and bolted for dear life. You couldn’t go back to get out due to the crowd and chainsaw guy was…

That sounds like a great idea. Wish we did that here, but the more historic local park is pretty good mixing the more grown up fun with the little person fun, and maintaining a level of expected behavior for all visitors.

There’s a couple of this type of haunted house attractions in my city, and they have very clear boundaries for the guests as to whether they’re down with physical contact or not: I think there’s actually a couple of tours specifically scheduled as No Touchy.

I don’t do it at all, because I have a very active self-defence mechanism from years of abuse that I decided I wasn’t going to experience ever. again.

Gotcha. You jump in my or a couple other ppl I know’s faces, you’ll get smacked. Then, unless the jumper was actually robbing someone, everyone feels bad.

Maybe I’m old or too much of a mom brain now but—haven’t we taken Halloween to enough of an extreme as a society? I love horror movies but I’d never willingly go to one of these things. They seem next level and this story seems to illustrate the NEXT level of that level. Similar vein: what is up with the horror story…

Ahhh I feel so sorry for the friend! Imagine the horror of realising you actually stabbed your friend! I’m just relieved her natural instinct was to stab his arm, and not plunge it into his gut, throat, chest etc.

I can’t even imagine being her, or anyone who has had to experience such horrible trauma. This is a personal attack against them and I am furious. And I’ve been furious and yet, outside my bubble no one else seems to be furious. I know my closest friends and I  are good to go. But I look around. I talk to people and a…

Two out of six men on the US Supreme Court are accused sexual predators. These men are supposed to be the best examples of men in the land, appointed to the highest court in the land. Yet Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas make up of a third of them. This a sorry state of affairs that even the #notallmen crowd should…

I am so utterly heartbroken. It feels like all we’ve done for the last two years is lose. I won't be able to take it if we lose November.

Any excuse!

agree.