Narcissism is a funny thing. It makes the sufferer desperately overcompensate for all the inadequacies they think they have, but doesn’t do anything about the ones of which they’re unaware. So the narcissist ends up being an odd mix of intensely defensive and utterly oblivious.

I think it’s weird he’s ashamed of something natural and out of his control - like being bald - but not ashamed of any of the actually horrible shit he says and does.

I wonder about that, too, but because my personal pattern shows a history of different types of abuse it’s important to determine why I sought out these type of relationships/situations. Some of the situations are isolated events, but many are not.

People who have experienced trauma tend to have the symptoms of trauma regardless of if they decide to categorize the experience as traumatic. For example, the number of women who actually call their rape “rape” is quite small compared to the number that report an incident that qualifies as rape. But categorizing the…

Jesus, this sounds like my story. At 46, I’ve also begun to unpack my sexual history and what I thought was consensual at 14 (losing my virginity to my friend’s 28 year old brother after doing cocaine one evening) was not. I was a child. It’s confusing and I’m interested to see how this film handles it.

No, but he pulled off being a nutsack really well.

Ben Franklin would take “air baths”. He would open his windows and stand naked basking in the night air for God and everyone to see.

We can’t even talk about all the white on white crime in these videos because of PC culture SMDH.

And the suggestive, vulgar, and violent lyrics of Country & Western music, I’ll tell you what. What with the “boots up your ass” and all of the day-drinking and bodies like backgrouds and such.

‘zactly. Deadbeat Chads.

I blame the absence of fathers in the white community. Where is the personal responsibility???

Never forget

Timberlake somehow manages to remain distinctly puncheable even to this day. He has that annoying “I don’t know what I’m doing wrong, I’m just trying to bring joy to the world” smug face of someone who very much knows why they’re a git but won’t just own up to it.

The whole Hanoi Jane thing was a setup. She was a pretty naive peace protester who jumped at the opportunity to show the North Vietnamese as human beings who wanted peace as much as people in the US did. The North Vietnamese exploited this by cajoling her to pose on a anti-aircraft gun.

LOL U

That’s a Russkiebot troll - he’s been bopping all over a bunch of the Splinter threads on immigration with his racism

McKayla Maroney has already filed suit (in December) against USAG and USOC for covering up the sexual abuse. Michigan State is also charged in the suit, but not for cover up.

The thing I find so confounding about the complicity of USAG/MSU/USOC is... why? Once the allegations started to surface, why keep him? Did this shitstain appear to offer anything special? Did he seem to possess unique skills above and beyond the average sports medicine practitioner? Or was it really just the purely…

I just want to thank Deadspin and Jezebel for giving this the frontline attention it needs and deserves. Other outlets are giving it so little attention relative to its importance it is very disheartening.  I listen to the radio in the morning on the way to work and you would have little idea this was happening if…

I’d rather date someone who is actually bitter and jaded as compared to someone who tries to come off like they are bitter and jaded but is really a lost, confused mess of a person who’s life hasn’t been half as hard as they think it has.