"Actually, I was texting a friend from church." Dude. WTF? How does who you are texting make any difference? Like I'm supposed to say, "Oh, your CHRISTIAN! That makes your inability to take responsibility for your own actions make PERFECT SENSE."
@SuperMeels urban cookie collective: I think that Lauren Slater's books and Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted are better members of the genre. Nell Casey's anthology, Unholy Ghost has some excellent pieces; Martha Manning's Undercurrents is good. Manning is a psychologist, as is Slater. If you want other works by health…
@SuperMeels urban cookie collective: Otherwise, I thought the book was stunningly mediocre. As in William Styron's much-vaunted (but in my opinion loathsome and craptastic) Darkness Visible, Jamison's work seems more like a paean to how successful the author is than an actual description of a deadly disease. Both…
When I read Kay Redfield Jamison's self-congratulatory An Unquiet Mind I got to the part where—in attempting to convey how bad off she was—she said, "I occasionally slept in the same clothes I had worn during the day." Since, at that time, I was frequently sleeping in the same clothes I had worn during the day, then…
@Snugglecat: Well done! I call this "Nice Guy" act "Impersonating a Sensitive Guy."
@Kiva_Vargas: If the source of the light is unknown, then speculating on its origin is Totally Normal. Speculating that it's ALIENS is weird, but, seriously, you speculated on the unknown in your comment (i.e. guvmint crap), at the same time you're chiding others for, oh, I don't know, speculating. What gives?
@GunwallsLizzie: I don't know. I personally burned 6 million Jews in my feminist oven.
@je suis prest: Like being able to raise her arm when she can't? Those rules? The rules that don't accept any person might have mobility issues or handicaps of any kind? Oh, okay. That's a totally great idea!
Shouldn't it be parfumeuse?
Oh, Moriarty, if only you had studied "baritsu."
@mbprice: I have no knowledge of the neuroanatomy of PTSD. When I was 15, my first boyfriend broke up with me. This triggered my first psychotic break, which led to others, until I was finally properly diagnosed and medicated at the age of 32. So, my question would be, what WAS the neuroanatomy of that situation? If …
The reason I am not angry about the topic is because my ideas are not about my personhood. I just happen to be correct in this instance, and you happen to be incorrect because unless you have a Ph.D. in linguistics you actually DO NOT KNOW MORE about this topic than I do. Anyway, I hope you start using the word "rape"…
@ThePieHole: I was not nor am I emotionally invested in this topic. Your assumption that I am is like telling my that I'm angry, i.e. calculated to MAKE me angry. Therefore, I am not going to read your no doubt borderline-illiterate reply, because, you know what, I have wasted enough time on you and your lack of basic…
@ThePieHole: And to bring the whole thing back to the original point of the article: using rape as a metaphor is meant to make the thing you are comparing to rape seems as awful as rape is. But in doing so, you diminish rape by yoking it in a metaphor to something like outing a restaurant critic. It's a. a poor…
@ThePieHole: Okay. You could have left well enough alone. But you didn't. Instead you did the "I hope it'll help you be less angry" thing, which is the internet equivalent of going around with a name tag that reads, "Hello! I'm passive-aggressive!"
@ThePieHole: *Sigh*
@want-to-be-in-LA: I would think traveling together before marriage might—as a whole—bring an end to the institution. Except that people seem to have such a high threshold for misery, which is the reason I will not set foot in a restaurant on Valentine's Day: some happy couples, and then a bunch of miserable people…
@ThePieHole: I don't "agree to disagree." I think—despite your more substantive and closely reason arguments here—you are Entirely Missing the Point I personally have been trying to make. "Agreeing to disagree" is, in fact, a cop-out. So, in the interest of not copping out, I will not agree to disagree; instead I will…
@ThePieHole: Not understanding? Also a cheap cop-out. I stopped replying to you because you either a. have reading comprehension issues or b. are willfully misunderstanding everything everyone who is arguing with you is saying. You are the one unwilling to engage in debate, in that you refuse to understand another…