Every casting director’s dentist’s assistant is like this in the entertainment field, it’s going to be a very long reckoning and I fear the fatigue that’s going to set in as the endless poisonous stories (hopefully) come out.

Aww, thanks, he’s a good kid. I value kindness above all things and I think it rubbed off a bit. 

White women who don’t know this is a thing obviously have no black friends and certainly don’t follow any black women on social media. For example, white women’s reactions to Roxane Gay saying she does not hug always blow my freaking mind. Where did the expectation you can touch people come from? Yeah, the absolutely…

This is why I barely comment on any Jezebel sites anymore. The grey thing. I’ve been here forever, had tons of my comments get likes, but I know most people don’t even read what I write because I’m grey. Sick of hearing about “the greys” and the snotty comments from people who aren’t. It’s a shitty system that feels…

Absolutely correct. My gay son has not only taken his girlfriends to planned parenthood for the pill and condoms, and the Gay and Lesbian Center for STD testing, he’s had to explain issues of consent and urge them to report abuse. The parents of these girls are highly educated executives, lawyers, etc. But they have…

I took a class once offered by someone who worked with the FBI on internet abuse and the stories about grooming children were TERRIFYING. (They literally showed us conversations and I realized how quickly I would have been pulled in...) Parents hand their young children these computers and phones without filters or…

Was I the only one thinking she put the poison IN the eyedrops?

Mine were too, and that is why I would have been such fodder for a grown man telling me things I desperately wanted to hear. I’m so sorry you had to deal with that and I hope you have experienced some healing.

I am SO HAPPY I grew up without the internet as I would have been such fodder for men like this. I was so insecure and shy, and yet so willing to take huge chances- I was perfect prey. We have to educate our children about the dangers. I talk to teens my son’s age who have NO internet awareness and it’s scary as hell.

Why am I not surprised that the comments here are already a steaming garbage fire. Stories like this, about horror show men, whistle on the frequency of other horror show men, so do us all a favor and don’t answer them or bring them out of the grey. Yeah, I know I am grey, but I try.

wI had a hard time with the mom friends mostly because of differing parenting philosophies. The last straw was a playdate when my son was small and mom was present. Kid is hitting my kid over the head with a truck, I gently take the truck and say, “You can bang on THIS if you want to bang something!” and mom told me…

I finally worked up the courage to tell my therapist, “You know, I don’t really like people all that much.” She’s going to be so proud of me that I can write it here. I love people in the abstract. I read books all day about people, I love my family, I work with children with Autism with no problem. (Except the…

I grew up on a farm and it annoys me to death that people don’t’ get the HARDCORE NEVERENDING WORK involved. There are no days off. Cows have to be milked at the same time every day, horse/cow/Etc. stalls have to be cleaned every day, you can’t skip any of this. Weeding is backbreaking, when it is time to sow its…

So proud of you and Ireland right now. Sláinte, hon, have a pint for me!

My husband is Irish and I cannot tell you how he feels and I feel about his country right now. They have thrown out the last vestiges of the evil church that ruled everything there for so long. It is incredible to talk to his father about how “bleak” (his word) the country used to be and how much this change means. He…

This absolutely delights me as I just went to a fancy dress up Royal wedding party and realized halfway through that I had left the thrift shop tags on the fancypants jacket I was wearing. I have also been known to leave the house with my clothes inside out, so there you go.

I lost my muscles eating mussels. Yeah. I’ll show myself out.

I am seeing them this weekend with War and I can’t even tell you how excited I am. Medical mari on the ready.

It must be so incredibly rage-inducing to suffer sexual abuse by your father and then be told it wasn’t real and your mom coached you. It’s in all the court documents, they did not prosecute ONLY because of Dylan’s mental state. Woody Allen had custody of his children taken away (Not just Dylan, but Ronan too!)-which…

I’m doing BBC too. I love the history of all the pageantry, which they do very well, plus, I can pretend I am there!!