Fun! Here's mine:

Ugh, this is horrible. I live in MA, but we get news for NH all the time and this is just horrible. The police genuinely do seem to be taking it seriously, thank god. Weirdly, in the first reports I heard a day or so ago, they said he turned himself in. How does turning yourself in and then pleading not guilty work, I…

The very best part of the letter is that she directs her anger at the right people. Too many adults don't understand that. Remember how many jags directed their anger at low-level employees at Chik-Fil-A, Hobby Lobby, etc.? But McKenna's all, "The staff are friendly and kind, whereas the company can suck a bag of..."

I know. And someone's going to jump in here about how statistically unlikely this is to happen to us by whatever random guy is harassing us on the street, and I'm like WE DON'T FUCKING KNOW. Then it's like, if we get raped or hurt or killed, we are blamed for being alone on that street, or putting ourselves in a…

Urgh. Me too, now. Who wants to bet, right now, on the approaches to character assassination of the dead woman that emerge if he ever does come to trial? minor criminal record/"She said yes til her boyfriend showed up"/"she was drunk"/"she looked like she might be a sex worker/had once been a sex worker/knew someone…

The fact that we published this on the same night as the "No Means Yes" frat sign bullshit is sort of haunting me right now.

But wait, I thought men said that if we would just be nicer we wouldn't have to deal with verbal abuse from men on the street?

#yesallwomen

I mean, I pretty much assumed all eggs were served scrambled when I was 4, because that's how I always ate them. Even seeing pictures of sunny side up didn't really clue me in that people ate them that way.

Jesus, this is the stupidest fucking argument ever, and I have seen some stupid fucking arguments. If you walk through life til the age of 25 in the United States not knowing that there are multiple ways to prepare eggs, you have to be almost willfully stupid or have a severe mental deficit.

Gonna say tgis now, my seven year old daughter is allergic to egg and even she knows the different ways eggs can be cooked.

Hi! So the story you're commenting about was mine.

I know the But Free Speech brigade aren't known for thinking things through, but I don't know how anyone can think that free speech constitutes yelling abuse at someone.

Rape threats over the design of a bank note. I keep repeating this fact to myself; I see the Tweet. Yet my brain keeps sending back this news bite, stamped "WTF?" I think it's because I had no idea how low the threshold could be for a man to feel his status threatened. If something as impersonal as a bank note can…

I was a waitress at a restaurant. I was fairly new at the time of the incident described below.

On the wine:

Just the other day a commenter on here thought I was "trolling" either about having been a server, having been homeless for a year, or that I'm now a lawyer... not sure why, but when I looked at her/his comment history it became immediately clear she/he was just one of those scary people that like to scream and yell…

GAH, that story brought back so many bad memories about losing money on a table because they didn't believe in tipping. I waited tables on 6th street in Austin, and so rarely had the chance for any revenge since we had so many tourists. I must think of the happy memory when this absolutely delightful 16 top rang up a…

Story #2 needs to elaborate!