ugh. I’m both happy you had that, and sad you ever knew what it felt like. :( It took me a while to work out wtf had even happened, I was so deep in it when we broke up. I’ve stayed scared of nothing concrete for quite a while, and I’m still not sure I’m back to trusting myself (because if I’ll let myself get into…

oh. my. god.

This gave me actual shivers. Jesus. So disgusting and exactly right. I both hate myself for having lived like this and *hate* that I hate myself for it, because I know I shouldn’t. But god, the person I was all the time... ugh. You’re so, so right about not even having time to think of it as abuse, because that’s…

(Oh, I know - just amusing to me that even in his ‘this is totes fair!’ alternate universe, it’d be framed that way.)

omg, literal exact thought. thank you for being me, when I was asleep on the job!

Don’t be ridiculous - he’s not advocating for *equal.*

Of COURSE they can. He’s talking about the *women* at his work. Totally different issue!

Dude, this entire dog thread has been balm for my beleaguered psyche. I 100% wish every story about politics took a ‘stories about my pets’ turn, at some point. The people need this [I am comfortable speaking for all of us].

buh-buh... Accountable bosses? Dogs mating with cats? Up is down? What kind of crazy alternate universe are you describing?

Perfect comment is perfect.

So much this. And far more recently than 2010. The treatment of the Romani people in Central and Eastern Europe is beyond appalling, and somehow almost never reported on outside local news. Western Europe is horrible, too, but no one seems to care. The romanticized synonym for ‘free spirit’ that I grew up hearing from…

wait, are you telling me that men don’t even have a safe space to express their rage in hip hop???
End times.

“but I just CAN’T write this hardcore song now that BEYONCE released LEMONADE!”

Seriously! That would not have occurred to me, but now: Riff Raff much?

(fwiw, I believe with every fiber of my being that Fiona Apple would buy you a house if she could *[’could’ meaning so many more obstacles than having the money, because: Fiona].)

(I’m not sure which post you’re replying to, so forgive if it’s a troll-y one, but if it’s the one I’m thinking of, it was more about how people unwittingly respond to cues that seem to convey authority and reliability. I’m probably conflating a couple of posts up there [sorry], but so much of it has nothing to do…

“Have you ever accidentally killed a pet?”

“The lack of cause and effect reasoning is just astounding to me- and I have ADHD, so like, mine is supposed to be clinically bad, and even I can figure this shit out.”
This is very, very far from true, and I hope you’re just making a joke of some kind. If you’re actually talking about how ADHD manifests in your…

damn. I was kinda meh on actually getting around to seeing WW, (I rarely ever see movies these days and action’s not really my thing), but that just sold me.

Pretty much my exact takeaway - the desire for such a thing to exist is understandable and relatable; the branding is eye-rollingly stupid and retrogressive. I don’t think the patients deserve any of the ridicule (unless this article were a collection of quotes from men demanding dr’s offices that were ‘man caves’…