Yet you still like Hootie and the Blowfish, which is so wrong. ; )

And you are looking for real scientists on....jezebel?

ZZoooooooooooommmmmm! (Did you see that? That was the bullet you dodged. It was a life destroyer.)

A lecherous man grabbed your ass and then you felt threatened by him because you are transgender? An angry man also = dead ciswoman.

"the schoolground bully"

The chance that all of the 12+ allegations are false is soooo slim that mentioning that is pretty much gaslighting.

I hate to +1 this, and I am only doing so not because I support the hell you're living in right now, but that someone in those dark places may see your final paragraph and get the help they need.

She wasn't in the wall. She'd slipped back into her native tenth dimension for further instructions and training, as all cats do from time to time.

Cosigned. I realize I'm especially sensitive about this issue because I just had Tyler Perry's Temptation on (hadn't seen it, on Amazon Prime, now regret watching it) and I am just sickened by the narrative that a woman owes her relationship something. Not owes the other person, but that women as a whole should…

Absolutely agree. If people weren't pressured to value monogamous relationships over non-monogamous relationships or being single and having casual, nonexclusive things, there would be less cheating. But there would still be some garbage people who like to cheat because they like the power trip of having a partner…

Sometimes I think that in another universe where there isn't so much cultural pressure to push people toward monogamy, many of these poachers and poachees would just be free-lovin' hippies who never did relationships. Maybe they're not cut out for monogamy and that's why they're miserable in their original…

Okay okay let's do the non scary story.

I think that's a good takeaway.... I rented an apartment in Seattle that was also probably a good $400 less than anything event semi-comparable at the time. I loved it the second I saw it - It was a huge corner unit... High, coved ceilings with crown molding... Original wood floors... Walk-in Closet in the bedroom...…

We had a friendly ghost too! We called her Mary, which was the name of both the wife and the daughter of the Victorian man who built the house. Once we started calling her by this name, she stopped being so spooky and instead became really interactive. She would tuck me in as child when I woke up in the middle of the…

I've joked before about starting a business called "Specter Inspectors," where I would rent small kids and / or dogs to would-be house buyers. If the dog barked at a wall or corner or closet for no good reason, or if the kid walked around and then said "There's a little girl in the bathroom whose feet don't touch the…

My dad and I are die hard skeptics but we've learned to never ignore my mom's gut feelings. When my bf and I were buying a house we brought her to one we just adored at a great price but she refused to set foot in it. She said she had a nightmare when she took a nap after seeing that house. We didn't buy it, lost out…

I too lived in a murder house. Ours had been the owner of the house before our landlords bought it, and she was murdered by her daughter's boyfriend, according to our neighbors. And because the post office will keep sending you mail long after you'd died, we even knew her name: Alice. And, strangely enough, there…

Keep in mind, not all haunted houses are bad. When I was about 12, my parents bought an old Federal style house (1850-ish) and the guy they bought it from told them over drinks about how his wife, who lived in Italy would not stay the night there. She said there were too many "dead souls". He loved the house, but…

First, really excited my story got picked!

Really impressed by Tara Babcock's story.