Avril was about as punk as bread.  The band, I mean.  Bread.

I went off to boarding school at 15, at my insistence. It was absolutely necessary for me, but I guess I wasn’t as on my own as an emancipated child would be. Still, you couldn’t have kept me in that house in that podunk town one second longer.

Am I the only one who did leave the house at 15 and was ready? I came from a violent, poor and abusive home. I left and never looked back. Welfare cut me a cheque and I did my best. There is nothing more sobering than having zero safety net. 

Crazy Ex Girlfriend had a good abortion plotline IMHO. Not angsty or overdramatic, just a character trying to decide on what is right for her. She uses the pill, IIRC, and it’s pretty lowkey.

I was reading the comments recently on an article on a website generally aware/sensitive to prejudice and discrimination, and basically a handful of people were arguing that the american readers don’t get how racism against Black British people in the UK isn’t even ‘a thing’, so they’re just seeing racism when it…

Significantly less than 50% of the US population currently gets their period. Yet, lots of stores sell tampons.

So your attitude is that when there is an “open secret” about a sexually abusive person but no one is willing to go on the record about it, people should refuse to ask follow-up questions and everyone should just be silent and ignore it?

I’ve come to a point where I have decided to believe ALL rumors of sexual assault and harassment. I’d rather side with a victim and be proved wrong than leap to the defense of a predator in the name of lofty ideals like “fairness”, thereby making it more difficult for women to come forward. There is nothing fair about…

I don’t give a fuck about Louis C.K. and if he’s an asshole who goes down for asshole behavior great.

Anna, we know you’ve been working on this story for fucking ages and even through the NYTimes is breaking it, I’m sure your diligence and professionalism laid the groundwork. Just know that we see you and appreciate you.

A reply so smug, I feel for yours.

I have never dated anyone younger than 18. And, have never been attracted to anybody near the Half+7 rule above or below my age. Not even close. My spouse of 10 years is one year older than me. But thanks for the amateur profiling.

19-14 is a relationship between a college student and potentially a middle-schooler

Yes! Okay! It sucks ass, generally, and I’m glad I’m gone! But what about the wonderfully skeezy old mammiform Century Theaters adjacent to the aforesaid Mystery House? (Or have they been rehabilitated/demolished by now? I haven’t been back to California in, like, forever.) What about the Haunted Toys Backwards-R Us?…