sorry for jumping in the conversation, but IDK where to post it to be seen and I kinda can’t ask anywhere else.

Not true, at least for me. I’d be uncomfortable condemning anyone if the only evidence of wrongdoing was second and third-hand rumors, and if the supposed sources of those accusations started directly refuting them.

People are being such dicks to you and only proving your point about mental health stigma, I’m so sorry they’re doing that. You absolutely do not deserve to be treated as “toxic” unless you are abusing or bullying people, and it is clear here that people have jumped to harsh, inaccurate assumptions about you based…

For sure. In my experience, men who have diagnosed mental illnesses tend to get a free pass for shitty behaviour, while women’s diagnosed mental illnesses are downplayed and seen, if anything, as more evidence that they are ‘difficult’. I get the idea behind the whole ‘toxic people’ schtick - and there are some people…

Thank you SO MUCH for this article. I suffer from Borderline Personality Disorder and articles like this have led to so much stigma, self-righteous and sanctimonious lecturing and more consequences than you could imagine. I am not saying for one second we’re not difficult to be around but sick of people being told to…

This is a definite reach.

I don’t. Even as someone who has written (and lost) manuscripts in the past, I get it. She wanted to hurt Jo, and that was horrible, but it wasn’t unforgivable, as Jo learned when Amy went through the ice. It is possible to be furious with someone and still love them, and in this case, Jo needed to learn to rein in…

Because that pro-labor person would have beaten Trump about the head and face with the idea that he outsources his own jobs, proudly celebrates people getting fired, and really doesn’t give a damn about working-class americans. In an election where people are anxious about not having as good a life as their parents…

I got nervous when I never heard from her campaign. I live in a swing state, have been active in politics (including running a canvassing operation for Obama), and actually was a statewide delegate for Bernie. And yet I never got a single call from her campaign asking me to volunteer or even vote.

I was shocked that she lost, but upon reflection, two things stuck out to me:

When did y’all start to get the feeling that she could lose?

I suspect it’s mainly skincare.

Here’s an even easier definition (don’t know why you had to go dig up an obscure journal since it supposedly has “a clear definition”):

I take exception to Winter’s Bone. That’s set in grindingly hungry, filthy, agonizing poverty, not the blue-collar stratum. Some of the characters aspire to be blue-collar; others have simply given up.

Oh, Winter’s Bone is good.

She’s from a decidedly blue collar family—somewhat prosperous but still very much proletarian—and there’s some not-subtle comparison of the class distinction between her family and the adoptive parents’.

He did good things, but that also doesn’t negate the bad things he did either. He’s fair game to criticize. Drones, ending the shuttle program, taking until just before the 2012 election to come around to gay marriage publicly, negotiating ACA to benefit insurance companies, taking years to finally stop the Keystone…

Disappointingly Diplomatic Obama is the only Obama there’s ever been. I like the guy and he was a decent prez I voted for twice, but Jesus CHRIST I am disappointed with how he spent so much time trying to appease people who hated his guts by selling out supposed liberal positions before negotiations even started.

You just wrote a lot of words that I’m pretty sure Chris Pratt doesn’t even understand.

But a lot of people identify with their roots even if they’ve “made it.” I can’t fault the guy for still thinking in those terms if that is how he actually grew up.