so this is the reporting form apparently. https://adobeformscentral.com/?f=6Ni-GQ9Hnkq…

I’d also like to add that otherwise my coaches - I swam from age 4 through college - were pretty fucking awesome. And I’ve coached myself. There are lots of good people in the swimming world.

Thanks for the feedback. He’s definitely a USA (so when I was a kid this was USS-seems like they’ve switched acronyms) coach. I’m not sure what I could actually report, though-? Like dude was kinda not-defineably sketchy and then tried to bang me when I was 19, which is legal, and also drunkenly admitted he gets off…

One of my swim coaches tried that with me when I was 19. He started hitting on me at his sister’s wedding and got me to give him a ride back to his hotel, got me to come up, you know. I sort of went along with it because it was really hard to say no to him until I just couldn’t go any further- it felt too gross and…

Definitely agreed that the MTV album speaks to lost potential, which is totally tragic. There’s so much chemistry on that album, like all the members of the band seems to be in such synch with each other, and if Cobain hadn’t died I could imagine that he’d’ve done great things either with Nirvana or going in his own…

The MTV live album is one of my all-time favorites. Cobain’s voice could be incredibly emotive, though I feel like there was only a specific context (the lyrics themselves, the peculiarities of the melodies) in which that could really shine. Adele, on the other hand, has a fucking set of pipes and her voice stands on…

What world do you live in? People get pissed. They shout. Sometimes they throw shit. This is not abuse, this is being human.

Netherlands. It’s a thing.

meh. when i was younger i was jealous as fuck of hair with ‘body’ (i.e. barbie, and/or anyone with curls; also it was the early 90s and everyone had a perm) and i hated the fact that my hair was limp and straight and boring. but you know what? i got older and realized what a profound cultural privilege my limp,…

Oh thank you for the kind response! glad I didn’t offend. Hugs to you to.

Ok so this is obviously a rhetorical question and the answer is misogyny. DUH. But the comments are so apologist I don’t even know what to do...

I haven’t logged in in a while; just wanted to say I didn’t mean to attack you, and sorry if it came off that way. Though early miscarriages are just not a realm that the government should be dealing with, on a personal level it *is* definitely sad if someone doesn’t have family or other support to help them deal with…

For American expats, Trump is the living embodiment of national shame, and a significant reason we try to avoid speaking English.

But it’s only sad in the sense that Indiana lawmakers have passed some insane legislation that forces women to treat a dead fetus like a fully developed dead human and pay for burial/cremation and a funeral, but of course hasn’t actually thought about the logistics of doing this, because they don’t actually give a…

If she really was having an early miscarriage, though, and it was a normal one (these are very, very common), she didn’t need medical treatment. What exactly would you expect the hospital to do? They could give her a script for some painkillers, but it would be pretty absurd to open up a bed for someone who’s…

There is NO WAY she actually eats like she says she does and remains that skinny, and it makes me sad that people aren’t smart enough to understand that.

I’m vegan and I never talk about it and I cannot stand people who talk about their diets or what other people ‘should’ eat or how they should exercise. It’s just so gross to me on multiple levels. Like, what’s more personal than what you put in your body? How could you think it’s your place to invade other people’s…

I really hope you never have to go through it! The comedown for him was definitely horrendous. I have major depressive disorder myself (which actually seems to be responding to treatment now, fingers crossed) so I have an inkling of what the comedown was like for him, though I’ve never had the added horrors of…

*friend, not fried. too late to edit.

I agree, especially as she was diagnosed with bipolar, which can be tricky to treat even when the person’s totally compliant with their meds. I had a fried whose meds just stopped working several times, and mania is no fucking joke. During his last episode he completely torpedoed his career through several weeks of…