One thing I’ve learned from my dealings with my father is that having PTSD doesn’t preclude being an asshole, and, well, vice versa. My father would love to just yell “PTSD!” and have the world at his feet, but as I told my aunt, “It’s important to give credit where credit is due. I know he’s mentally ill, but he’s…

She has done and said so many stupid things but until now I hadn’t really found myself enraged by her. I considered her a nuisance and a side show attraction.

I agree, but a lot of people are unwilling to consider that they might take that step until they actually are taking that step. They are insulted at the idea that someone thinks they can't handle gun ownership. Think how older people feel when they have to give up driving. It's similar.

Meanwhile, Obama has done so much for vets during his presidency.

Must there always be a “blame”. A bad thing happened. I’m sure her friends feel guilty as fuck.

They’re not responsible for her death, but most of them will probably be living with a helluva lot of guilt for not going after her.

I agree. Also, it’s safe to assume that her friends were also highly intoxicated and probably not thinking quite as clearly as hindsight commenters on the internet.

It was absolutely a stupid thing to do, and drunk or sober she should have known better. That said, we have all done stupid things and she could have survived this and hopefully learned a lesson if she had had better friends.

She did a stupid thing, or at least a probably very drunk thing, and that is “on her.” (Do you feel she was suitably punished?)

Fighting or no, when a friend goes out like that, you follow and bring them back. Or at least take them a coat if you can’t get them back in.

*sigh* Winter in the Midwest you don't ever assume "someone picked her up" you call and freaking check! Mad at you or not, you keep calling.

Me too. That has to be one of the more senseless ways to die.

I live in Maine. I often marvel at the women in Portland that wear exactly such warm-weather clothing (shorts, stockings, tank tops, skirts, etc) on nights with exactly such chilly weather conditions.

This is really fucking heartbreaking to me.

I am a woman. I have listened to a few of Tucker Max’s Mating Grounds podcast, a dating podcast geared toward men, as I thought it would give an interesting perspective on dating.

While he has grown wiser, he is still an asshole. With no shame at all, he refers to a period of his life when he was dirt poor and dated…

Does anyone realize that most of Tucker Max’s stories weren’t actually his? He would take stories from his friends and ones he heard and just set them up as his own. A buddy of mine ran in the same circles as Max through a mutual friend. Always said he was a complete butt plug of a person but not nearly as outlandish…

Eh, I’ve dated a lot of very different people in my life. Besides hygiene, the appearance thing only matters if the relationship is purely physical. I’ve been with men that I didn’t find physically attractive at first but ended up finding the person as a whole attractive after I got to know them and men that I found…

Well, I think everyone acknowledges that getting men to settle down isn’t an easy thing lol

Walking with my best friend and her newish boyfriend and we start discussing our friend’s new guy. I think we said he treats her nice, he has a job, and seems like a good person. Her boyfriend stops looks at us both and says, “Holy shit seriously that’s it? That’s all you want?”

I read The Game a few years ago. One of my Dude Roommates had it, and was like “read this shit, it will definitely piss you off and also I know you and your sister are obsessed with the VH1 show The Pickup Artist.”