Shia. Dude. Why?

Unsolicited recommendation for ppl who find solace and strength in online support forums: Out of the Fog is a great place if you are or have been in an unchosen relationship (ie—child or sibling) with someone who has a personality disorder (or even just some of the abusive behaviors/tendencies that come along with…

Your comment is the straw that broke the camel’s back, where the proverbial camel’s back = my attempts not to cry while reading this post & its comments. xo

For totally different reasons from OP, I needed to hear this, so ty <3

I also think the general public works with a pretty superficial definition of “mental illness” and “mentally ill.” My whole life has basically been a case study in the vastness and complexity of that category... One of my older siblings is schizophrenic; he was always the kindest and the least violent of my brothers.…

eliminationist i think?

This news brought out the radfem trolls. Some of the most virulent transphobia and trans hate comes from self-professed “radical feminists” who want to retain some biologically based separatist definition of “woman” or “female” (idk?). It’s idiotic and it pisses me off that there are women out there who hurt and…

Ew. This is hateful anti-feminist transphobic rhetoric. Anyone who conflates “biological” sex that a medical doctor assigns at birth based on the external appearance of a fucking newborn’s genitalia with the gender identity and/or gender expression of a fully formed individual human being just has a totally shallow…

Unfortunately, yes, WW2 education is that bad here. I teach writing to college freshmen, and they really like to mention Hitler, Nazis, and/or the Holocaust in their papers. Some students attempt to actually explain how it relates to their claim, but most just drop it randomly into a sentence and assume it will…

Slow clap. Seriously. I like your style.

This was my favorite part, you know, in case you were wondering:

Right? My most recent ex, who I was with for almost ten years, was emotionally abusive. After I told her we were over, I moved in with a family member temporarily so that I did have to live with her while we divided our stuff, split up our finances, etc. After we’d taken care of the business-y stuff, I told her we…

Approximately 3 minutes after I broke up with my high school boyfriend in the basement of his parents’ house, as he was crying and asking “why” and I was sitting there kinda stony because I was emotionally bankrupt as a teenager and didn’t really know why other than “things have changed,” I felt an intense pain in my…

I’m getting hitched in a couple months, so I’ve been doing TONS of online browsing & shopping. When I see stuff like this, my first thought is, can I repurpose this? Can I make it into a pretty belt? Can I tear it apart and use pieces of it as decoration? Can it be a centerpiece? Can I put it in my hair?

Didn’t think I could love FLOTUS any more than I already do, but then she said, “When kids get their licenses,” and I swooned. Correct grammatical agreement, even when speaking. She is rare one, that Michelle O.

I’ve just been sitting here, a mixture rage and sorrow, with the comment pane open for like 15 minutes, trying to find the right/best/adequate words. There are really three things, I guess, I wanna say:

um, i maybe want to have his babies now?

I’m a teacher. I was also once an adolescent girl. And this is fucking reprehensible. Like... I feel physically ill. I mean, yes, the poster itself is disgusting, but in a public school?? NO. Girls and women have this shit flying at them from every direction, all the time, in just about every social space (often…

Plates of my youth!

I agree that there’s nothing inherently wrong about speculating (I certainly noted changes in Bruce’s appearance and made my own assumptions; his image was splashed all over People and US Weekly and my grocery store never has enough lanes open, so...), but I do think when we speculate about marginalized groups to…