Ugh. The one time I was raped in college the guy invited himself into my room to give me a massage. I was so drunk I was like “Sure, I don’t want to have sex though”. Next thing I remember he was on top of me. So icky.

Well, it sounded like some of these people did tell their agents, and some employees spoke to higher ups at the company. And nothing happened.

Holy crap. That teacher sounds super, extra creepy.

In classifying yourself as “crazy and needy” I think it would be interesting to know if this is the consensus among guys you date (in which case you are just dating crappy guys) or if this is a consensus among some well-meaning and well-adjusted female friends. Either way, you are who you are and pretending to be…

Growing up I really don’t remember so many Confederate flags in New England, but I also didn’t spend as much time in rural areas. Over the course of my lifetime the conservative/liberal divide has become much less regional and much more urban v. rural. So, rural New Englanders associate the Confederate flag with…

This guy is younger than my dad, so I am not really buying his Mad Men excuses. Also, if I were to buy them, maybe I would accept him calling someone “sweets” or asking his female coworkers to bring him coffee. Rape and other assorted harassment, that’s just ‘cause he wants to.

Whaaaaahhh?

For some reason up until a few years ago I thought Sasha Frere-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates were the same person and I was realllllly confused. I think the hyphen threw me. Anyways, Coates is brilliant.

Yeah, I associate Tom Petty so strongly with my suburban junior high experience that I can’t really listen to it. But, I have found in the last few years that I have rediscovered some of his songs and they hold up well.

Except all the brown people would have to go too.

Thank you for making me guffaw during this shitty news cycle.

I think the Western leftists who even care enough to write think pieces about Syria are a pretty narrow group. I think the rest are just bewildered about who to support. Everyone I know is anti-Assad and anti ISIS, but the prospects for somehow supporting the non-ISIS rebels successfully seem slimmer each day. Do…

That’s why there is an exception for rape. If a good woman gets raped, it doesn’t matter if the fetus feels pain and is murdered. I think?

I have a pair of Cole Haan kitten heels that I have worn for work presentations for at least 10 years. Super comfy and stable. Some kitten heels seem really precarious because they are too tiny.

Thank you. I was confused.

That sucks. I have anxiety but manage to keep it mostly in my head with issues around my kids. My sister-in-law unfortunately has alienated a lot of the extended family with her stress and behavior about her kids. Basically every single interaction she has is about how you are going to kill her child and what you…

Exactly. Or imagining that all your classmates are writing down racist justifications.

That is the tricky part of trying to assess hate crimes and terrorism based on intent rather than impact. I am not sure whether or not the other students these guys were fighting with at the beginning were black or not. I would bet they would have beat up anyone who tried to interfere, regardless of race. But…

My best friend who has sadly gone further down the hole of mental illness became a TERF for a while after she was dumped by a lesbian woman who was in the middle of discovering and transitioning to a trans man. I understand that there is a somewhat real tension between radical feminism ideology and trans identity (in…

Yeah. We had a bouncy castle and a babysitter at our wedding for the kids.