Weird. My brother filmed this. I never NEVER thought I’d see anything associated with my brother on Jezebel. That sounds bad...

She is who she is. She has Borderline Personality Disorder so mostly I have learned to protect myself. I love her but I have to have strong boundaries. I have amazing friends in my life so I do feel lucky in that respect.

Back in 1997, in Boise, Idaho, the cops used to kill citizens on the regular for shit like not using a signal. That all ended (at least overtly) when they gunned down 2 young men from out of town for failing to use a turn signal. It was a terrifying moment when you knew it was open season on minorities and youth. I…

You learn to trust yourself more. When I was raped, my mother blamed me. I ended up pregnant and my mother had pro life organizations calling me. I had to trust my decisions and trust that getting as far away from that shit as I can would help. Now after years of therapy, I still find it hard to trust people but I…

It depends where you live. My teen years were in Idaho and they treated anyone who identified as Hispanic as garbage. My half Mexican brother has blue eyes and light skin and he was harassed all the time. Even if you spoke Spanish and were white, you got shit. Some places aren’t concerned with just skin color a much…

She said its up to me but suggested buying or making a blank /plain card and just writing, “happy Mother’s Day". I think you're probably right that it may have repercussions.

Oops I replied to you to another persons comment.

I’m reading the book “Stop Walking on Eggshells” which is both comforting and depressing. I can accept that my mom is empty but I feel ashamed when I have to explain this to others.

I haven’t spoken to my mom in several months and I’ve been dreading this day. I asked my therapist if I should buy my toxic mom a card, if only to show that I’m ok. (She likes to tell herself I’ll fall apart without her constant overbearing behavior). There isn’t a card for, “our relationship sucks but there’s this…

I was propositioned many times working the front desk at a hotel. I never once slept with any guests as I just wasn’t into it.

I'm currently involved in one of these dramas. My sibling who long ago learned to stop talking to our mother had a child and the child's baptism is coming up. My mother has decided NOT to come. Sounds like a good thing but since she couldn't convince me that my sibling's sig. other is a horrible person, thus…

You should have a feature for crazy hotel guest experiences from the employee perspective. I guarantee they're just as crazy. I worked at a few hotels in various capacities and those motherfuckers are insane!!!!!!!! Plus sex is involved many times.

I work at a teaching hospital and the med students have no rights to invite anyone anywhere. The lead physician is in charge. Also, as many have pointed out, medical students are not invited into abortion procedures. Woman actually have privacy rights. This dude is seriously embarrassingly bad at lying. There is…

Maybe the whole reason you and your ilk are anti-choice is that you're dumb enough to believe that scissors in brain is a thing. It makes sense now.

I read that stupid article at NPR and became so irritated. It could have been written by my mother. She IS the narcissist!!!! I seek solace in a group on reddit called "raised by narcissists". I feel alone all the time because few people understand the mental hoops you have to go through to try to have a…

We need to establish a system of taking teens out of Alabama to states that allow legal abortions. Kidnapping schpidmapping.

My mother set out to make sure that me and my brothers did not, under any circumstance believe in Santa BECAUSE she believed in Santa and said that when she found out he was not real, she felt an intense sense of betrayal. She said that her parents and family went to such great lengths to make her believe that she…

If my life is generalizable to any segment of the population at large, rape is not rare at all. I was first assaulted a fucking Foo Fighters show (they weren't yet huge but were almost there). I had heard that Dave Grohl had a band but nothing had been released yet so my friends and I went to the show (Spearhead…

My former project director told this ridiculous story about how on the website Nextdoor, a neighbor posted a warning about seeing "Mexicans" in the neighborhood and that they were likely up to no good. This neighborhood was where I live and I'm Mexican so I was like... "why is she telling me this"? I asked her…