Sometimes kids have an easier time talking to someone who isn’t their parent. I’ve already given my phone number to all of my kid’s friends that if they ever get into a bad/stupid/drunk driver situation, they can call me no questions asked, and I will drive them home. I’d rather be woken up at 2am then attend a…

Amen to that. Dating violence and the That’s not Love campaign need to be taught in schools over this Stranger Danger crap. The boogeyman (or woman) is usually known to you and not a stranger. Teaching kids what to look out for and when to run for the hills is so important.

And what’s not in the report but is a commonly known fact in sociology and criminology circles is that the #1 cause of death for pregnant women is homicide.

Another important statistic. A woman is more likely to be murdered in the two months before and after she ends a relationship than at any other time.

John McCain is one of those Senators that I feel most conflicted about. The guy went through shit and torture and for years was a moderate in the GOP but recently his devotion to Party Loyalty (seemingly thinking he’ll get something in return) has seen him hypercritically vote on bills for years now (similar to Ken…

That’s like, so three years ago. :D Mom jeans are 100% in with youths these days. Just, not, like, if you have a mom-body to go with them. *sigh*

Yeah, pretty much! If you think about it, most trends in fashion and media aren’t created by young people, they’re created by the people of those generations who have risen the ranks of their respective careers to tell their stories and dictate these trends. Younger people buy into it because it’s new and cutting edge…

This is the second time today that I have pointed someone towards their city services directory. It’s all there, people!

As somebody who used to write for Harlequin, I beg to differ. Nobody I knew wrote to a formula and I definitely didn’t. It’s been awhile since HQ was my publisher, but I would respectfully (truly, no sarcasm) ask that we not trash women writing in a female genre.

That’s because we’re forced to live in a world shaped and created by menfor their benefit but they’ve never had to live in ours. Similar to how it’s pretty easy for POC to write white characters while white authors usually struggle with writing POC characters. Because POC must live and adapt to the white world to be…

I’m convinced men are just, as a general rule, not good at writing from a female perspective. Female authors can write male narrators/main characters pretty deftly, but men so rarely consume media that forces them to identify with women and see the world through their eyes that they don’t pick up that skill.

If they’re describing women as 5'10" 120#, that’s a dead giveaway right there.

Nick’s tweet seems heartless and impersonal but as someone whose dealt with a loved one whose deep in addiction, I completely understand.

I think the problem is the headline. It is a fine meditative essay, but with a headline like ‘My Friends are Dead’ the reader expects to read the story of someone who has experienced an outsized number of deaths. What follows is a pretty pedestrian experience of a few people dying as life moves forward.

This was something said to me verbatim by my grandmother one day when I asked if she had seen any of her friends lately. The saddest part was that she was right. She outlived every one of her friends and her siblings—all her peers were gone. It was then that I realized she was ready to go. She lasted another 5 years…

I’ve never seen any of these films (my age and my unwillingness to be triggered has prevented me), but I really wish there were more movies that talked about diet culture and how it leads to EDs.

Well, if he’s that serious about emulating Napoleon, I’m up for sending Bannon to a desolate island to spend the rest of his life in the company of some scary green wallpaper.

Yes, dissatisfied seems to be my default setting at work, albeit for different reasons. I started this job fairly recently but I don’t have nearly enough to do and am bored a lot. When I do have work to do I’m bored a lot because the work itself is boring. I don’t get any personal satisfaction from it although I don’t…