Oh my god remind me never to come to you when I am sixteen and experiencing some kind of emotional breakdown.

Oh I think privileging the smart kids in school is a pretty okay thing to do. I mean, isn't that what school is about? Getting smarter?

"Sometimes, people who know less than you do will have power over you, and you will have to take their shit."

YEP. My mom used to do radio news and voiceover work and that kind of thing, and she always tells me "Honey I'm sorry you're sick, but on the bright side your voice sounds great!"

My mom says it's an Irish-Catholic thing. I've been trying to tell her, no, it's a manipulative thing. She says they are often one in the same.

THIS. The number of times my mom has said to me "Well, doing [xyz] with my mom is one of my favorite memories of her, and SHE'S DEAD NOW..."

I also had that thought. Another possibility is Bipolar Disorder - mania can come with paranoia and delusions, even if it otherwise looks like you're doing well.

My depression makes me hilarious on my own terms. See also: Hyperbole and a Half.

I agree with you I think. We go around thinking we know what "bad guys" look like, and we don't.

teens need space though. They're at a developmental stage where it's important to bitch about their parents (it is known as "identity formation"). If you get all up in their grill on Facebook, they will find a different place to be surly hooligans, be it tumblr or Instagram or the pool hall down the street (with a…

When that CNN comic hit, my friend started a Millennial Rage Reading Room group on facebook to catalog all these articles. So far there's been a new one every day.

I think Flynn just does that. I've read three of her books, and I've loved all of them, but not one has had a non-annoying protagonist.

'GANSETT.

What I want to see on a magazine cover: Some trendy starlet wearing a big baggy t-shirt with holes cut out over her nipples, regina-george style. Sans bra. That's what I want to see. NIPPLE ONLY.

I feel like the very concept of a "pick-up artist" is a very shady concept. If you want to be good at making people like you, that's fine! That's probably pretty normal!

Absolutely rightly so!

Yeah - I had a similar situation and ended up getting my mom to call. I had a totally crazy roommate and had put in an official room transfer request, I'd talked to my RAs, I'd pestered the people at ResLife myself, and nothing was happening (meanwhile I was basically living in my boyfriend's double and taking showers…

I wonder how much of this is societal influence and how much of this is just based on how annoying it is to have to actually eat food every time you do a take of a scene.

You mean Marilyn Manson did something wildly sensational and inappropriate? What??!

Shout out to WUBBAPPELLA, the world's only collegiate all-dubstep a cappella group. They're from Brown :)