The gossip and tabloid treatment of Bruce’s transition has pissed me off from the first. I’ve refused to click any links or participate in speculation. Here’s why:

Do hippie festivals count as concerts? If so*, then the time I accidentally ate shrooms while on acid at this small-ish festival. Don’t remember the name of the festival. Barely remember any of the bands that were there. This was early 2000’s. I went with about 10 friends and we camped for two nights. First night, we…

Read headline & came here immediately just to say:

[TW: Intimate partner violence/domestic abuse.]

Same! #NoShame. Also I’m getting hitched this summer and we’re hoping for enough $ for a decently relaxing honeymoon, so gauging my own reactions and expectations of sex quantity on possible honeymoon as I read...

Hi Congress! Please pass this bill and, while you’re at it, subsidize tampons. Thanks!

I agree wholeheartedly with the general sentiment! However, I admit sheepishly that there are two subreddits I have bookmarked—Unresolved Mysteries and Lets Not Meet—and visit on the reg. The former’s title is self-explanatory, it’s well-moderated, and it has good posting and commenting rules; the latter is made up of…

Okay, so I live up on top of a hill in the woods. It’s residential but heavily wooded. The road I live on is a double dead end with homes only on one side (IOW, when I walk out my front door and look across the street, I see forest), and the dead ends both connect to a well traveled trail system. Being situated where…

I think mine would be a mixture of pleased, intrigued, and disappointed. Pleased that I made it to 35 and moved away from home; intrigued to find out how I ended up a queer femi-nazi scholar activist; disappointed to discover I’m not a super successful Broadway star. #CantWinEmAll

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For fuck’s sake, the shit women are forced to put up with. State-sanctioned revictimization. Like, “Nah brah, we’ll let you continue manipulating and attempting to control her; you can still hold on to some semblance of power over her. You just gotta do it in front of a judge and stuff and follow these other rules…

^^This.

“I personally believe that life is special, that human life is special and there’s a sanctity — that we’re more than just clay and dirt,” he said.

Ugh, so basically he's trying to be all manipulative and shift the blame. His thought process is basically, "You weren't giving me enough attention/staying in the proverbial spotlight, so I cheated and we split up, and now all love and marriage ever are doomed forever because, like, you started it when you stopped…

I’m a hopeless mess. Crying within the first minute. Love her.

Had a history prof in college (specialized in slavery and reconstruction) who was from the midwest, spent years teaching in Mississippi, married a Texan, and was living in WNY by the time I was taking his classes. He used to say that “southern hospitality” is real but shallow—a largely superficial thing that enables…

So I don’t have the same diagnosis, but I am dealing with PTSD from a combination of factors (past abuse, significant injury & recovery), and I feel like we’re in similar places. As far as clinical treatment, I’m on an SSRI and see a therapist biweekly. As far as dealing with this shit in my everyday life, here are…

I'm just as guilty as anyone here: despite frequently commenting on how ridiculous the entire concept of bottled water is, I've definitely bought bottled water at rest stops and not really thought twice about it.

What about a water cooler service? My in-laws use one for their drinking (and ice-making and coffee-making) water. Saves money compared to bottled and reduces the waste.

If corporations have the legal status of persons, then they are most definitely sociopathic. Profit (money) is to corporations as water is to humans (and like all other animals); without it, they cannot survive. Corporations will do what they need to do, including taking actions that knowingly hurt actually breathing…