It’s been a while since I commented, and like some sort of a moron, I decided that commenting on a thing about sexual assault would be a good thing for a rape survivor to do. But I’m also a man.

While I agree that rape and sex are fundamentally different, the whole “rape is always about power and control, and never about sexual desire” thing that has been accepted as a truism really goes too far.

is that their pez dispenser?

Okay, okay, I bow to the Star Wars fans in the audience.

60 is middle aged only if you expect to live to 120.

Granted, this is referring to the US and not the UK.

Let’s be real here: bad things don’t happen on TV with anything like the same frequency as they do in real life. They’re there not to reflect reality (especially not in a fantasy show about people disappearing suddenly) but because we find violence in general and sexual violence in particular to be entertaining.…

No, the TLC made it mandatory. When they say cab drivers will remove them at their own expense, they mean the fleet owners who own the cars or the cabbies that individually own their own cars, not the cabbies that work for a fleet.

Well, there goes like 1/4 of Jimmy Kimmel’s regular viewers.

Scene- My bedroom, 2 AM, after a bottle and a half of wine.
Players (In a theatre sense, not like, a gross way to say ‘lovers’ or whatever)- My husband and also my me.

We were young, early 20’s, shitty on wine, having laugh sex, where we sort of clumsily bounced around the bedroom, laughing and not totally putting all…

Ooo! I have a Museum one too! “Wow, you ladies are so put together and fashionable- It’s just not what I expected from museum workers!”

Oh God. Some people are just totally heartless. I’m not a native New Yorker, but I was 18 on 9/11 and living about an hour outside NYC. A lot of families on our street lost relatives. I had mentioned the upcoming anniversary of 9/11 to a coworker a few weeks ago, and he kind of brushed me off by saying, “Oh, that…

I love everything about this story. As a native New Yorker traumatized by 9/11, people acting like the hole in the ground was a massive tourist attraction enraged me to no end. So thank you for sending them to Brooklyn as punishment.

St. Paul’s Chapel serves that function nowadays. It was an important historical site before 911, when I worked at 25 Broadway and used it as my place for daily meditation. Now, it has a whole different vibe. I can’t really go in without crying.

Lived in NYC for years. Still back almost every month. I still won’t go downtown.

They never took a doggie bag home and they never touched Golem Jesus’s meal.

I was also 11, also a native New Yorker, also my first week of sixth grade.

I used to work a few blocks away from the Dakota building where John Lennon was shot to death and every. single. day. I would pass groups of tourists taking photos of themselves grinning hugely and throwing peace signs right where the murder took place (it’s happening right now, go check!). At first I’d walk by and…

I’m from the UK, but I was visiting people round NYC for a month a few years ago. I stayed with a family friend in Jersey City and would get the train in near Ground Zero. I was just so confused at families asking policemen to take photos of them with the gap in the background. I still don’t. Really didn’t seem like…

Good.for.you. I hate when frenzied tourists lack the self awareness as human beings to recognize that sites that have such violent human loss associated with them still affect the collective consciousness of people still living (like yourself) in that same area. Have some f’ing reverence for god’s sake.