When she says lifestyle, she means immutable characteristic.

I am sure that she is alright with the KKK, after all that’s the way they were raised.

Respectful?

Stop smoking crack. A parent’s behavior informs and molds you more than anything he or she says, especially if it’s hypocritical. You have to walk the talk or you have no place to bitch. Ever. It's deeply disrespectful to young humans to insist otherwise.

A) This has nothing to do with “allowed.” It has to do with Johnny Depp blaming Vanessa Paradis because their daughter is imitating behavior he has demonstrated for years.

Only on this white feminist website would you get people advocating for colonialism instead of actually showing sympathy with the victims.

Eh. I have Chihuahuas, and they are short haired. As a breed they are not well suited to cold temperatures, so coats and/or sweaters can actually be helpful for them. If it’s even misty outside they sometimes refuse to go out unless they are wearing a coat.

Mental illness is not license to hurt others without consequence. You don’t have to be “responsible” for your actions in order for the people you’re hurting to be justified in protecting themselves by avoiding you.

You hoping you don’t offend anyone doesn’t actually prevent you from offending anyone. Being considerate of other peoples feelings is much more likely to prevent you from offending someone.

Clio, Of course you’re right! People with mental illness are just puppets to their prescriptions. If we act like total bitches, it’s the drugs/the brain chemicals. If we are loving, spiritual, kind, whatever - same thing. We have no power over our actions, no will towards the moral good, we are Zombie people.

Why the asterisks? C*ntface is no more or less offensive than cuntface. The letter u is not the issue with that word.

God, that friend sounds awful. She was terrible, and you or your husband did nothing wrong, as far as I can tell from the article written by you. It’s not like you did anything mean to her, like wrote an article about what a cuntface she is so thousands of people can know.

If you haven’t seen the doc Pink Ribbons Inc, I highly recommend it. I really appreciated that they emphasized how destructive forced positive thinking can be when someone is terminally ill. How dare anyone tell someone who is fighting for their life to be more positive and gracious. Like you said, there’s nothing…

11 or 12 years ago, my very good “spiritual” friend looked disgusted when she came with me to visit my dying aunt - like she would catch the plague - and told me if I meditated enough I could save her and my grandfathers life. When my grandfather died she said it wasn’t too late for my aunt. She died because she had…

Sounds like the bitch I worked with fifteen years ago who told me that she didn’t want me near her when I finally came out (she was convinced I would give her AIDS). Only the second time in my life I had ever wanted to hit a woman (so very glad I didn’t). I did, however, shit in her handbag.

Hate to break it to you, but you’re both shitty friends. This article is nothing more than revenge trying to disguise itself as a ‘thoughtful meditation’ on the end of the friendship. As you said, there’s a part of you (I’d suspect a large part) that is upset that you were the dumpee. So you took to the internet to…

Every time I think I want friends, I read something like this and realize that there are worse things than being alone.

Dear gods, is this perfect timing. This past summer, my best friend suddenly became hostile and unfriendly; no warning, no explanation, no anything. Then I found out that she had been excluding me from activities we used to do with two other gfs, and then posting their fun on Facebook for me to see. This put the other…

“Spirituality” has made some of the most monumentously selfish people evangelically selfish. Selfishness as a religious experience. I’m all for self care and self love and no one loves a good boundry like I do. But if the road to your own bliss bisects the highway to Assholeville drive right by me

It’s in the book! Or on the dvd, I forget, because I needed to forget because DAFUQ.