Is there a reason you're all over this article shitting on people? Who hurt you? What is your life like that you spend it being rude to folks online?

Not necessarily. And sometimes I just don’t have the spoons, and for various reasons can’t/don’t want to discuss it with someone.

i was emotionally abused by someone who would not respect my attempts to draw boundaries around her constantly dumping her extreme meltdowns on me. i want people to know that that is not ok. i felt like my entire purpose in life was to be a sponge for her emotions.

All human relationships require work, and the people who don’t recognise that are probably letting other people do most of it.

“ In the past few years, the concept of emotional labor has gone mainstream on social media and in articles that revive and expand the idea, with the term moving out of the workplace and insidiously into our homes.”

Yes, that sometimes happens with words in a language. A word that started with a particular definition…

That’s not the point at all. It’s that all of us are already carrying a certain amount of emotional burden on any given day. There is nothing narcissistic to recognize their are moments in which we don’t have the bandwidth to safely carry other people’s.

Relationships are work, though. Not all work is paid, nor does it necessarily make sense to change that. But they are work, and they do involve labor. Being there for someone to rant to, providing them emotional support and/or advise, scheduling future get-togethers, figuring out how to communicate with different…

hot take

I don’t disagree that the term emotional labour is somewhat overused, but I wholly disagree with the idea that it’s antithetical to friendship to suggest that it involves a form of work. Friendships do take work, and in turn bestow value (in the form of personal fulfillment, not money). I love supporting my friends,…

Sometimes I get sad after sex because dude won’t leave.

Sometimes I get sad after sex because I am no longer having sex.

Yeah, Jesus wtf is that? I can imagine it was genuinely hard for some of these men to speak about this exactly because of the eye-rolling jerk-off-motion response of some people, I just assumed those people would be dudebros. 

about which I am really trying to muster some freaking empathy.

Fair play to her. And a hex on all those obstructionist gobshites who refused to allow Obama his nominee and another hex on all those hateful fuckheads who voted for Trump and a third hex on all those self-righteous gombeens who didn’t vote for Clinton either because she wasn’t ~pure~ enough or because they thought…

The American Psychological Association has seen reportedly seen a noted five percent increase in political anxiety since the 2016 election,

Every day I read the news and want to grab the american people by their collar and yell “how could you let this happen?!?! Make it stop!! For the love of god, MAKE IT STOP!!!!” I am so angry at america for inflicting this on the world. Even those that didn’t vote for him are complicit because they didn’t do enough to…

FYI, as much as Trudeau is better than Trump, he’s still very centrist. If you’re crushing on Trudeau, well get your smelling salts and your folding fans, ladies, and meet Jagmeet Singh: the 39 year old, socially progressive, activist lawyer; hipster-before-it-was-cool (see the video I posted, after the photos), and th…

When the EU starts violating human rights by kidnapping children of immigrants, then you can criticize how they’re handling the migrant crisis.

Simpleton.

You are a complete cunt of a human being. Hope your death is slow and painful and I’d say that to your face.