To quote Eminem, "Ooh, yeah, girl, run that game."

The audacity of folk tryna lecture Black people about the "complexities" of race. I can't.

Cape Verdeans are black. And culturally she definitely lives as a black American woman. there are plenty of black americans and in fact most of us are mutts. We come in every color and if you are descended from slaves and really wanted to parse it all out, we would list the same ethnicities in our backgrounds as she…

She's black. Just like I'm black even though white people want to call me "African-American."

I don't know anything about her parents dissing her wedding, but it is possible for black people to be prejudiced against other blacks, you know? Especially when factoring in colorism and/or xenophobia.

I was thinking that about her story as well as the trend she says she observed in the boomers. Being too lazy to google any of the woman's work, I wonder if she actually interviewed the family members who cut off the parents or is she jumping to the conclusion that the kids are narcissists based solely on the story…

I actually signed up for a Kinja account because of this comment. It is exactly right - what you said, "heart-wrenching, not natural and very hard," is completely true.

Or my personal favorite:

I have some experience dealing with someone (not a parent) who is so willfully disconnected from reality that they just don't understaaaaaand why you're upseetttttt what did they do wronnnnng can't we talk about it? And fine, you summon your backbone and your patience and you explain it clearly and simply. And your…

As the child of a narcissist (my father- thankfully my mother raised me) I can guarantee that grown children do not cut off ties with their parents because the parent did too good a job at building the child's self-esteem or because the parent won't support the view that the child has of themselves. Not talking to a…

My mother has a lot of mental health issues (bipolar depression and borderline personality disorder) and she doesn't process guilt at all well. So she denies things so aggressively and persistently that you start to wonder if they ever really happened. I am (mostly) estranged from her because she was emotionally…

"They accuse me of being a terrible person, but won't elaborate about exactly what I've done. Well, sometimes they do, but it doesn't make sense, at least to me."

I think sometimes abusive parents have a tendency to believe the lies they've told themselves about how wonderful their children's childhoods were. Particularly if their children turned out to be decent adults.

I'm in construction so I cringe at folks who see being hurt at work as some kind of badge of honor.

AMEN. PREACH. This is just one of many reasons why the food service industry's workforce needs strong and mobilized unions— or at the very least, some form of reasonable oversight with regard to workplace safety. Kitchens are seriously dangerous places.

You make a good point. I was too busy crushing on this female Rambo to think it through to that logical extension, myself, but now that I see it spelled out, I do agree.

Yes, I agree with you, actually. It's not humane. Sure, they were in the middle of nowhere and she has the right to do whatever she pleases to her own arm, but any responsible boss/manager/whatever, would have driven her to the nearest hospital right after either the injury or her cauterization of the injury. I do not…

I understand what the INTENT was. That's pretty clear. I have zero problem with the intent. I'm saying that the "meat" of this joke is that Bill Cosby probably raped Sleeping Beauty. And that's... not funny. The idea of Bill Cosby preying on someone else isn't funny to me. A joke that slammed Cosby would have been…

I mean.... it was still a joke about a woman getting raped though... that's not... quite where I think they wanted that one to land....

When I grow up I want to be like you.