My other thought is, if she had access to affordable day care, maybe she would have gotten away from that sick bastard more easily as well.

Are we twins? I typically just answer "melanin" and walk away.

Same. I get the "you are SO tan what is your secret?" "Being birthed from a brown lady" is usually my response.

I'm just going to share this story from last Saturday. A good money-making night- the restaurant is packed, we're trying to turn over tables. Of course half of them are fucking campers. So when another 8 top of 40 something year olds roll in, I'm begging my manager to give them to me. Bright eyed and with an imaginary…

I feel like that crazy Coffee Latte story needs to be a Hyperbole and a Half blog post, it needs Allie's glorious illustrations to depict that woman's rage.

You know how some people listen and some people simply wait to talk? Lena Dunham waits to talk. You can see her using every last iota of self control to prevent her mouth from opening while Kaling was speaking.

It happens because some staff at prisons think that even the visitors should be treated as non human pieces of garbage. I've never had something so terrible happen as this poor woman but I've been thoroughly disrespected and sneered at by guards while visiting my relative in a state prison. Fuck these officers and I…

What really really extra terrifies me about this story is that this was the treatment given to a visitor. If this kind of inhuman, misogynist fuckery was allowed with a visitor I can't even begin to fathom the shit that some of the female prisoners go through on a daily basis, above and beyond serving time.

This was my question! If my boss came up to me and said "say, can you take that stranger into the ladies room and make sure her vulva is bloody?" I'd quietly pull off my badge and whistle as I walked away.

And the security risk of carrying a pad if you are not actually menstruating is.....?

Preemptive shout-at to anyone who'd use that bullshit line: People in prison have families. It's punishment enough that their families can't be with their father/brother/husband, etc. — but to be straight-up afraid to visit them because of the guards? What the fuck?? And hell.. what's to stop them from doing this to a…

Doe says the guard squatted at the level of her pelvic area and looked at her until she was satisfied that she was menstruating.

I would have stuck my fingers in my vagina and painted fuck you with period blood on the wall, but I'm an animal.

I also think that any ire with fire would be read as a biased speaker blindly sticking up for her friend, if not an Angry Black Woman and a coven of bystanders beating up on bubbly, affable, Hucka-Bubba (I actually got the sense that she was really .... holding back).

Anecdotal evidence says yes, this is true:

She is 91 years old and retired from the LAPD. She married three cops four times (the last guy twice because she "hadn't learned her lesson the first time around," she likes to say). She was a total slut and a raging alcoholic. She adopted me when I was three because my parents were into drugs and we've never looked…

My story isn't too original: I pawned my ring.

My fiance and I broke up on reasonable terms and she gave the ring back to me. I still have it! I had bought it at a discount by taking a "no returns" deal. "She'll say yes," they assured me.

I've tried to sell it twice. The first time was to a pawn shop where the guy took the ring in the back to "examine" it, then…

Counterpoint: Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn.

I think it's a sign of serious character defect for a person to habitually and only date people much younger than them. You know when being 20 years younger is one of their requirements.