After Serial I didn’t know what to think, except that the trial was clearly not fair and should be re-done. But then I listened to Undisclosed, which is hosted by 3 lawyers including Rabia from Serial. After that, I don’t think he did it and I *know* his trial was bogus. Undisclosed gets into the nitty gritty details…

Everyone has bias, and these 3 all clearly came into the podcast believing that, at minimum, Adnan’s trial was not fair. That said, I thought they did a really stellar job of presenting facts and common sense throughout the podcast.

That’s typical teenage behavior, though. Teens lie, especially if they want to do stuff they know their parents won’t approve of, like have sex and smoke pot. I was a very well-behaved “good” kid, and I lied to my parents a lot when I was a teenager in part to maintain adults’ perception of me as a “good kid.”…

After Serial, I was totally on the fence about Adnan’s guilt, but it was VERY clear that the state had not proven his guilt in court. To me, that’s the bigger point, because if the system fails then we never get to be sure of the results of that system. 

Totally agree! Serial did an entertaining job of introducing and doing an overview of the case, but Undisclosed does an amazing job of answering the most interesting questions that Serial doesn’t. The most frustrating part of Serial for me was Jay and the question of WHY he would implicate Adnan if it wasn’t true, why…

Thank you! <3

Thank you <3

Thank you so much, this was honestly really helpful. I’m sorry it’s been hard for you as well, but from all of these replies it seems like this is a super normal (if uncomfortable) experience for a LOT of people. <3 

Sending you the best vibes and hoping everything goes well. 

Thank you <3 

That This American Life episode was SO GOOD. 

Yeah ... I heard an interview with her on This American Life where she talks about how she wrote an article about being fat and then he wrote an article about it in response ... it sounds a *lot* like what Annie’s editor does in Shrill. 

I’m struggling. I was fired from a brand new job in February - long story, but ~80% not my fault (I’ll take 20% of the blame). Since then I have had ZERO luck finding decent work, even jobs I am *so* qualified for. Worse, employers keep ghosting me, even after a final interview! They’ll say “We’ll let you know by x…

THIS. They’re nerdy musical theater kids who MADE IT doing music. They’re campy and glammed up and over-the-top because they’re MUSICAL THEATER NERDS! What do they have to be embarrassed of?!

I used to work at a pizza place that did this. It was the worst, there was always dough on the floor after that table left, squished into everything. 

I feel like there are 2 different levels of cheating. There’s a stupid-mistake-that-you-immediately-regret-and-confess-to, and there’s serial, long-term cheating that involves sneaking around and lying over and over. The former, I feel, is a human mistake that has the potential to be forgiven. People do dumb, selfish,…

I doubt he knows Egypt is in Africa. 

I am 5'10" and quite thin. I also have teeeny tiny breasts. When I was a horribly insecure teen/early adult I used to buy their insane “adds two cup sizes!” bras in hopes of pretending I had tits, but they were SO incredibly uncomfortable. All underwire and padding and straps digging in weird places. And also like…

And cue all the “feminists” calling a mom crazy and stupid for doing what she wants with her placenta! 

Polls also said an easy victory for Hillary. Polls ain’t shit.