Like his marriage? The whole “I’m going to marry the embodiment of sex, remake her image, and then demand that she change her look entirely because I had a spiritual awakening” thing really rankles me. 

That was my immediate thought: stop talking about how you killed him like a dog, as that blast also killed children and you are disrespecting their short lives. There is a way to celebrate the defeat of an objectively bad person while honoring the innocent lives that were lost. Granted, this president isn’t the person…

This was the issue I had with my ex when he was promoted to be my boss (so completely aboveboard in all respects). We worked at a restaurant and he was so afraid of being accused of playing favorites that he deliberately rigged contests so I wouldn’t win and sided with others in any disputes. It infuriated me, but he…

When I asked my mom what a “blow job” was, she said “it’s a dirty way nasty people have sex”. I still feel bad for my dad...

I got a UTI after losing my virginity, but we also went at it like rabbits over a 3-day period and I am UTI-prone. I definitely don’t believe my experience is typical.

My parents “saved themselves” for their wedding night and Mom was very open with me about how they struggled and she had constant UTIs. Basically, her system was just super sensitive and took a long time to acclimate to sex. This led to a lot of really awkward conversations leading up to my wedding, including her…

Not Mormon, but was raised super-conservative Christian with the same taboos. I never understood how a ceremony and a piece of paper turned an act that destined you for Hell into God’s gift to humans. As a self-described kinky slut, I still struggle with internalizing the things I was taught. When you are raised that…

Yep, she totally owned that it was all for looks, not necessarily for health.

It’s also jarring to notice how thin all of the women (expecially Cox) are, in contrast to Matthew Perry’s fluctuating weight (you can easily tell when he was sober vs. using drugs). After the first season, the women kept getting tinier while the men gained or maintained. I can’t imagine the tabloid reaction had any…

One of the most refreshing interviews I have ever read was with Gwen Stefani, maybe a decade ago. She confessed to being constantly starving and doing painful workouts to maintain her physique. I appreciated her brutal honesty and wish more celebrities would do the same instead of “oh, I drink lots of water and get…

Just... how? How is one so completely unaware of the world and their own life to say this? Is there a word for proactive hypocrisy? If not, I’m coining “Trumping”.

I am 100% stealing this for future use.

I have a firm belief that we never know what we would do in any situation until we are in it. I always thought I would fight off a rapist; I froze. I don’t own a gun because I am not confident I could use it in an emergency, but that’s not to say that I absolutely couldn’t. If someone threatened my niece, for…

Why are we guessing at the identity of a victim who, if outed, could be held legally liable? I get it, it’s a juicy story and adds further credence to Lauer being a predator, but trying to figure out who the victim is seems wrong. It’s what I see on blind item sites, not what I read Jezebel for. 

But what if you don’t actually know the person? I’m a petite woman who doesn’t have a gun... knocking on a stranger’s door, asking if they are okay, is likely to end in something bad happening to me, in addition to not being particularly helpful to the person I’m checking on. I once shared a wall with a couple who had…

I don’t know the names, let alone the numbers, of any of my neighbors. I couldn’t even pick most of them out of a lineup. I don’t know anyone who lives in a city and has the phone numbers of their neighbors (unless they have kids who play with said neighbors). I also don’t answer my phone for unknown numbers and don’t…

So you take away Splinter, making Barf Bag the only place I can go for a quick rundown of political news... and now the comments aren’t showing on this article. Thanks. Now I have to actually do work at work...

It makes me think of the Matt Lauer (I know, ew) line in The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: “I’m always amazed at what women will do because they are afraid of being rude.”

*hugs*

I had consensual sex with my rapist the next day. It was my way of normalizing the encounter and trying to rewrite history. It is, to this day, one of the things I have the most internalized shame about in my life. I am extremely open about my assault but have only told a couple of people about this detail because it…