I’m just so fucking glad I’m never going to be a bridesmaid ever again.

Goddammit, just when I thought I could be proud of my state.

When I was young, cheese hadn’t been invented yet. We drank our milk sour and we liked it that way.

#whitepeopleproblems

There was a movie that came out sometime in the last 10 years (probably; I’m bad at pop culture) where no one in the world could lie, ever. And then one day the protagonist learned to lie and shit got weird. I remember the marriage vows in that world being like “to have and to hold, to yadda and to yadda, for as long…

I’m a full-time grad student in a really intense program (less than six months, y’all). Between class, homework, and my practicum, I work seven days a week. Once or twice a semester I take a complete day off everything. No homework, no housework, no anything. Even though the next day I have that much more work to do,…

I would bet several internet dollars that the wings story is a D/s thing whereby Dudebro was paying his ladyfriend to humiliate him for sex reasons.

Which does not excuse any of their actions BTW because like the number one rule of BDSM is not involving people without their consent.

I’m so glad this is coming up during the week of Trans Day of Remembrance.

I must be An Old, because I have lost the ability to be shocked by any of this stuff anymore. *shrug*

The most recent one that comes to mind was last week. I’m a social work grad student and I’ve been in my practicum for almost 6 months. I finally had a chance to go to a staff meeting and be all professional and stuff, but only a few days before that I found out that one of my supervisors had been fired abruptly and…

After a traumatic accident close to Thanksgiving in 2006, I stopped celebrating altogether. It’s weird when people ask what you’re doing for the holiday and you say, Oh, I’m just staying home and catching up on my reading, and then have to repeatedly turn down offers to be their guests.

Last year I finally decided I…

All of Boyfriend’s friends are married. A few months ago Boyfriend, one of his BFFs, and I all went to a baseball game a few hours away together. BFF and I had about half an hour alone in the stands together at one point, and discovered to our mutual delights that we quite enjoy each other’s company. Because BFF has…

Well that’s some backwards bullshit right there.

I used to know a couple whose children called them Mommy and Mama. I felt bad because I could never remember which parent had which name.

Okay look. In some states, divorces, even uncomplicated ones, take FOREVER. I met my partner four months after he and his former spouse legally separated, and their divorce wasn’t finalized for sixteen more months. No kids, no shared property, no real controversy, our state just sucks. In the meanwhile, we’ve moved in…

I tried Tinder but freaked out after some dude whose profile consisted entirely of pictures of him performing oral sex on other women showed up as nearby while I was working at a medical school. That was oh around minute 29?

I’m glad I met my boyfriend the old-fashioned way, when he introduced himself to me on OkCupid…

Two stories come to mind.

One night I was working a crazy busy takeout counter at a pizza place. A youngish guy called and asked if we could make a pizza in the shape of a heart and if we could write a message on the box - he wanted to ask a girl to a dance. I told my manager (a young woman) and we got totally into it.…

I dunno, makes sense to me. In my experience I can tolerate most things, but the things that are intolerable are INFUCKINGTOLERABLE.

I hope I never have to date again, but if I did, there’s no way in hell I’d ever even agree to meet someone who didn’t have a four-year degree, a steady career path, and ambition. I’m…

I’m very very firmly anti-death penalty, but cases like this sorely tempt me to change my mind.

This isn’t a restaurant story, but Holly Samuels’ story immediately brought this to mind:

About 9 years ago I worked for a city-run event space in California. Because we were right off the main drag, a lot of people came in looking for just general information about the area. We were told that we needed to help…