My ex is black and I made the conscious decision to drive if we were ever headed to campus through Martinsville after dark for this very reason. I'm honestly surprised we never got pulled over to be questioned if I was there against my will or something.

When I was at IU, I once had an FBDB yell out his window in broad daylight, “You wanna get raped tonight?!” The frat culture in B-Town is the worst. I went to a small school my freshman year where 50% of the students pledged and the culture was very different.

I worked at the Papa John’s in Bloomington. The Martinsville location was in our franchise and my black manager refused to work there at night because Martinsville is basically stuck in the 1960's when it comes to race relations.

Everyone makes fun of me for watching ID until they get sucked into a show I’m watching. Then, it doesn’t matter how many times I’ve seen this show and how much I want to watch something on Netflix, they just HAVE TO see how it ends.

My roommate plopped down on the coach less than two feet away from me a couple months ago and began clipping her toenails. I about lost my shit. I’m less weird about feet than I used to be (I think my hatred stems from my dad’s side of them family all having NASTY feet), but it seriously took everything I had to not…

I have one of the nicer IKEA bedroom sets. The frame of the dresser is solid wood and the drawers are particle board (?). It’s very sturdy and well-made. It also came with anchors. This isn’t about “flimsy” furniture. I had heirloom furniture growing up and those dressers were probably more prone to tipping because…

This could happen to any furniture manufacturer. I have had many dressers over the years and my IKEA dresser is no more likely to tip than the others. The difference? IKEA actually included a warning and instructions for anchoring. By their very nature, tall pieces of furniture are a tipping hazard.

THIS. I have an IKEA bedroom set and chose not to anchor my dresser to the wall. I kept the anchor for future use, but I don’t feel it’s necessary since I don’t have kids. If I did, and I still chose not to anchor the furniture, that would be my fault, not IKEA’s. They make it explicitly clear in the instructions for…

And if she is seeing a stylist and a salon for the tan, how far out did she have to drive to find someone who wouldn't know she was parading as a black woman/would keep their mouth shut?

My first thought when I saw this was “How the hell is that even possible?!” I can't even get a spiral without the weight of my hair reducing it to waves in a month, much less that kind of texture...

I’m quite disappointed that no one has mentioned meeting John Mellencamp. Here in his home state of Indiana, it seems that everyone knows at least one person who has met him in some capacity or another and confirmed that he is a giant asshole. Just awful.

I’m awake therefore I horn.

I explained below, but I do think it’s both. Just a different brand of mental illness than I had initially assumed.

Of course you're right. I had just assumed that she was of the variety of crazy that had delusions of grandeur and thought she had fabricated this well-educated persona as a result of mental illness, so I was surprised to learn that I was able to find evidence that she was telling the truth. I have no doubt that there…

As crazy as this woman sounds, I have found corroborating evidence for her life story, as told by her website and Facebook pages. She really did graduate high school with honors and was an IB student. She went to Spelman college and was in Glee Club there. I’m starting to wonder if she’s not really off her rocker at…

I was talking to this kid in my show choir that never liked me, and because it was 2007, I repeated back something he said with an added “your mom” (i.e.: “That’s stupid.” “Your mom’s STUPID!!!!” lololol). It took about 2 seconds for me to remember his mom had died the summer before. I turned beet red and apologized…

Already did and shared on social media. Living in Indiana, I've got a stake in this. I'm terrified for my female friends and family.

Trust me, there are a lot of us weathering the bullshit storm, but it's disheartening when the people in office are more concerned with power and maintaining the Republican status quo in this state than actually doing what the citizens want them to do. Their current objective is to effectively strip our Democrat state…