Since the lack of change following Sandy Hook, I’ve felt the exact same. Being a queer person, Orlando did hit me in a particular place, but I can never feel anything other than a sad sense of “of course it happened” whenever a shooting is reported. If the mass-murder of children didn’t make us change, I honestly…

This. I honestly can’t fathom what it will take to change anything if Sandy Hook didn’t make a lick of difference.

I just started reading her book last night, and the stuff about how uncommon blackouts are was really eye-opening for me. I’m on my fourth month sober, but when drinking, I deliberately did it to the point of blacking out or passing out to “cope” (ha!) with my debilitating depression at the time, so I knew it wasn’t a…

Yeah, I’ve never been to an AA meeting myself, but after reading the literature available online, that’s what I had a large problem with: we know addiction is a disease, so why is the main prescribed treatment a spiritual program? I know folks who AA has worked great for, but it’s personally not for me for that and a…

Good lord, this is just a continuing shitstorm of terrible people being more terrible to other terrible people.

This poor girl. Thank god the rest of her family has actual feelings and common sense.

I’m so sorry you’ve got so many people close to you pressuring you to drink when you’ve just gotten to a point where you’re successfully cutting back. That’s so difficult to deal with. I just passed four months sober, but before I’d fully accepted my drinking problem, I’d at least tried to cut out liquor and shots, as…

* I found NA less intimidating than AA. Typing fail.

Thank you so much for this, Sarah.

Help, I made the mistake of looking at the comments on her instagram photos of the abuse, please someone help restore my faith in humanity.

YUP. He frequently went after younger women (tried to go after a freshman the year after he graduated and was back in town, wtf), or those who were emotionally vulnerable, and so on. And I know his bullshit tactics from both secondhand and firsthand experience, given that he only ever got in touch with me or wanted to…

On the one hand, I hate that women have to look out for each other like this, but on the other, GODDAMN I LOVE OUR UNCONDITIONAL PROTECTION AND LOVE FOR ONE ANOTHER. ;_;

THIS. SO HARD. A guy I’ve known since college is a Grade A textbook example of an emotional abuser. I’ve watched him manipulate and hurt I don’t know HOW many friends of mine. His behavior was pretty much common knowledge among everyone in our department, but because he was “usually” so nice and charming, he kept…

So, clearly I need to quit my job and start a career of yelling at children on YouTube.

... it’s not illegal.

So happy to hear this! Babeland is one of the few things about NYC I miss after having moved away. I’ve yet to find any local shops as welcoming and non-skeevy as them, so I always just buy toys online from them now.

What a fucking toolbag.

Yeah, I’m all about ~sexy photos~, but just a picture of someone’s dick (or boobs or vulva, for that matter)? Meh. Just doesn’t do anything for me. I’ve slept with one dude who I legit thought had a beautiful dick, but still, if he’d ever sent me a pic of just that, it’d have been something of a turn off. Gimmie a…

Fucking FINALLY. I don’t believe for a goddamn second that Heff wouldn’t have known about something like that happening in the Mansion.

The “can’t have kids and is wrecked by it” trope makes me want to hurl. If I ever found out I was infertile, I’d be high-fiving nature for saving me the tubal later on in life.