I am, cheers, Pibber. I thick it’s easy for people to forget that this stuff happens anywhere and everywhere, and that it won’t ever stop unless people speak up when they see something is wrong. People are more than happy to call the police because they hear a man telling his wife he loves her on the phone because…

*Might be a TW for some:* When I was around 11 or so, my family lived in rural New England, in a town where everyone’s house was a good 3 or 4 acres away from the next. One early evening, my parents discovered I had eaten a bag of potato chips and started beating me as punishment.

I could see out of the corner of my…

I feel like the act of writing it out here, rather than my nagging suspicions in the back of my mind solidified all the warning signs more cohesively. There’s something about ALL off it, rather than the one-ofs that make it so obvious that I should call CPS.

Thank you Aimee for not focusing on the financial side of this story. I’ve read coverage of this from several outlets and they all spend five paragraphs discussing how the parents only sold their daughter because of their financial difficulties at the hands of the Amish church. As if that makes this somehow…

There just isn’t a level of hell too deep for all the adults involved in this story. And what all the fucks. At what point to abandon your humanity like this? I just can’t.

Also, I’m exhausted from reading stories where my mouth hangs open in horror from the opening salvo. Ye gods.

The best proof that there is intelligent life in the universe is that they stay far away from humanity.

Just start calling it “Atwood’s Law”. Get it up there with Godwin, Rule 34...etc.

My husband and I were on a whale watching day cruise and we saw a boat called ‘Rum Jubilance’ or some such nonsense so we started naming our hypothetical future boat (he wants a catamaran) with the combinations of type of alcohol + emotion. We finally decided our boat will be called Scotch Fury.

Please note that in 2001, 390000 of us listed our religion as Jedi on a census form for shits and giggles.

It might be like how one girl is targeted as “slutty” even though she doesn’t have any more sexual experience then other girls in her school, or somebody with actually pretty mild acne gets ragged as a pizza face. Sometimes you only have to be a half step behind for the pack to turn on you, and it’s really easy to…

If you had told me I’d enjoy an ANT-MAN movie more than a Superman film even just five years ago, I’d have laughed.

I find a lot of characters are easier to deal with if I pretend they are played by Nathan Fillion.

As I understand it — and as a white male, I struggle sometimes — reverse racism is not racism because it is correcting a long history of racism. It is bias, but bias by itself is not racism. Sometimes bias is good, because it fixes wrongs from the past. Bias that reinforces past wrongs is bad.

Whatta bunch of nercs.

Cuts through ice as well as it cuts through bullshit.

I believe Malala Yusafsai was entirely correct when she told Obama that investing in education for girls would have been far more of an efficient method of combating terrorism than the drone program, or the support of rival fighter groups. Preventative or restorative investments in civil society and infrastructure are…

I think the joke is that she doesn’t believe in Hollywood diversity and her installment would be the compromise - one black person who is completely OK with there not being any others.

It’s the face you make when someone accidentally drops a sexual innuendo in a super-serious office meeting and you want to laugh but you look around the room and realize you might be the only one who picked up on it... From here on out can we just call that the Stacy Dash?

Whey is great but there are some differences between the one from straining yogurt and the one from making whole-milk ricotta.