You will catch shit from a bunch of insecure people, here. They want so bad to be bad.

Thank you, BurnerWhore. I do truly appreciate you for standing up for correctness of grammar and lexicon. It would seem that Strunk and White and a decent thesaurus are a thing of the past.

Ugh. So. Gonna complain here because it's a pretty safe space. Long, sorry.

So my abusive mother passed away almost two months ago, and quite frankly, I do miss her, but I am glad she is not alive to inflict pain on me ever again.

I'm so very sorry to hear that. :( I am discovering the truth in the sentiment that women get labeled as psycho, bitches, etc. just because they have feelings or opinions that are inconvenient. I'm not sure why I expected better from someone who is a member of the political party that typically works against women…

Sad and full of self pity (aka don't read before having had some alcohol). Also it's 1am my time, so I'll read answers (if any) when I wake up: I split ca. 2-3 months ago from my psycho/relationship and I feel very very very lonely. I can't wrap my head around the fact that so many men seem to prefer the "cute but not…

I went on a good job interview Friday. I think I got it (I got think that but I do too). It's been a rough severs years - I separated, moved cross country with my son and haven't been able to get on my feet personal or professionally. I think I could with this job. I liked the vibes in the office. So I'm asking for…

DAMN, lady. I agree with you in principle, though in this case I think the "snitching" phrase is useful shorthand approximating the cross-pressures on health workers (I haven't clicked through for the full piece because I am already familiar with the situation - my work covers this subject area).

Thank you for mentioning this. The execution of your fellow Brazilian and 5 others was featured in US news outlets today and I'm glad that you brought it up. Although, guilty, the executions were still atrocious.

In 1996, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions stated explicitly that the death penalty should be eliminated for drug-related offenses.

"Long condemned by human rights agitators, the country shows no signs of stopping the gruesome practice." I do not approve the use of the word 'agitator' in this case.

I am 100% against the death penalty in any and all cases. That said, the idea that beheading is "barbaric" is just western racism.

Disgusting. I hope, a few hundred years from now, the world looks on our era's tolerance of the barbarity toward women in heavily Islamic countries the way we look at the centuries of the slave trade today. It's the greatest human rights catastrophe since then, that's for damn sure. This kind of thing, which the world…

You, and people like you regarding different pieces of media, are missing the point. We're not saying that men can't write media featuring women, but the main point is thatalmost every time women are featured in media in general, their characters are written from a man's point of view. Their characters constantly…

I think a lot of this is that people who are close with their family don't understand the concept of not being close with your family. My parents weren't abusive, and I don't actively dislike them or anything, but...I just don't want to be around them. Like, almost ever. I have one or two things in common with my…

Agree completely. It's unbelievably rich to hear Boomers accuse other generations of narcissism considering they're the most narcissistic generation America has yet produced. Millennials have NOTHING on Boomers. These are the people who broke the country, tried to hand it to us, and when we went "uh, hey, this…

This is such a function of selective memory, too. They don't remember when they were shitty, so they try to make you prove they were shitty, but unless you're WAY more organized than me, you're not going to keep a journal ready of the exact dates and times they were shitty.

Considering the two generations of shitty people which surround us, I say we let in anyone on the cusp who wants to identify as GenX. To deny them membership would be cruel.

Clearly you know my mother and brother. They were both especially good at victim-blaming:

Literally my whole life was feeling responsible for my parent's feelings. It's horrible and it's only in the past year that I've been able to actually disengage from it, but it's guilt like no other.