In my defense, I've been drinking.

Sorry. Here is a photo of a kitten in a pile of marshmallows to make up for it.

Over at Cosmopolitan, Rebecca Rose (who?)

Oh, Lord. The updated story is So. Much. Worse.

You’re telling me. I had posted something a month ago about a woman who escaped her boyfriend who put her in a box. Whelp, he’s been on the run and murdered her Wednesday night / Thursday morning. I’ve been rage stroking all fucking day.

WE would be horribly awesome, yes. Their current roster is just horrible.

Are you a KC Jezzie?!

Step 3: Reality show on TLC to replace the 9,000 other shows they can’t air anymore because the stars are horrible people.

I don’t even recognize Alfie Allen out of costume/hair.

Christ on a cracker.

Shit. I’ll drive from Kansas to help make this happen. And, sadly, these are only the ones we hear about. For every gross family on TV, there are many more out there in the universe. How children as a cohort survive adult to make it to adulthood baffles me.

Thank you for the clarification. I thought his statement said that he went to his parents and they took him to the police. Apparently, I have reading comprehension issues (and really didn’t want to read that garbage a second time). ETA: I realize now they did take him to one officer, who did not do his duty to…

TLC was fun when it was What Not To Wear and some of that other stuff 10-15 years ago (still under the name “The Learning Channel”). Now it’s just pure, voyeuristic trash that to me helps aid in the abuse (or if not abuse the gross manipulation) of children.

Do the same rules apply to juvenile sex offenders as they do adult sex offenders? Obviously there were no charges because the victims, the family and apparently the police/DA declined to pursue them, so he wouldn’t be on a registry anyway. But are teenagers under 16 or so put on the registry like actual adults?

Thank you for sharing, and I am so sorry for what you have had to endure, and for what you have had to do to prevent yourself from enduring even more.

That’s an amazing take. I kind of love you.

fuck anyone who thinks Maggie couldn’t be a love interest.

The only saving grace about being 22 was I was too stupid to realize how stupid I was.

It’s so freaking hard. You don’t want to be vain, but you don’t want to be invisible. You don’t want street harrassment and to be valued only for your looks, but you at least want to be noticed. I try to tell myself it is better to be ignored because of my age and looks than valued only for them, but I don’t really…

I’m 32 and because of my age and lack of “hotness,” I am practically invisible. The ad with Mindy Kaling going through the grocery store eating ice cream could be my life. (Edited b/c my grammar is terrible before the first cup of coffee/tea.)