Doctors have always had a problem with telling fat patients that all their problems are a result of their fatty-fat-fatness. But now, rather than being a problem of shitty doctors who can't overcome their personal biases even in the face of science and research that completely contradicts their stupid shitty opinion…
Mike Wise is a white guy. Like most white guys, he is of the opinion that his opinion on everything matters all the time. Unlike most white guys, he is followed by 22,000 people on Twitter and is paid to write about sports for a living (OK, so that's not that uncommon).
In News That Will Shock Nobody But Will Never Stop Being Appalling, FOX Sports' Kevin Vaughn reports that Tallahassee Police Department reports on the alleged rape were given to Tim Jansen, either by TPD or the university. According to Vaughn, TPD gave case files to the University in November 2013, once they learned…
You shouldn't accept yourself if you're obese. You shouldn't find that beautiful. The majority of this country doesn't have a gland problem, they're not big boned, their thyroid is not set to "small moon", they're Fat...I know it hurts but the simple fact is obesity is going to kill your ass. I hope the fact they…
9 months ago, I weighed 167 and wore a 8/10 or size 29/30 jeans. 5 years earlier, back in 2008, I weighed 182 and I wore a 10/12 and a size 32 jeans... Now, I weigh 138, wear a size 2 or 26 in jeans. I am gobsmacked every single time I put on a pair of pants and that say "2" and they fit. The weight didn't come off…
I was at the grocery store yesterday, trying to decide what to have for dinner. I'd eaten a big breakfast and skipped lunch, and I was a little bit hungry, but I couldn't for the life of me decide on something to eat for dinner. I decided to go home and wait until I actually wanted something. The only thing I knew I…
Today in Hilariously Ironic Name News, a man in Australia named Peter Sheather was arrested for sending text messages to eight people depicting "nudity and lewd acts."
The Pop Culture Version of Abortion tends to go something like this: A woman finds out she's pregnant; she agonizes over the decision to have an abortion; she sits in the clinic, watching the terribly sad people thinking about the terrible thing they're doing; audio fades during the painful and terrifying procedure;…
Some people prefer to fuck thin people. Some people prefer to fuck fat people. Many other people place no importance on the size of the people that they fuck. All of these are valid choices, but we only pretend that one is abnormal. Chubby chasing is bullshit.
As a white man, I'm well-aware of our propensity for destroying everything we touch. From rock and roll to just about every group of indigenous people on the planet, we love nothing more than stealing things, wrecking them, and then telling everyone that it was like that when we got here and we made it anyway, so fuck…
My best friend, Richie (not his real name), is one of the sweetest guys you'll ever meet. He's kind, caring, and as insistent upon consent as anyone I know. I would drop everything to help him at a moment's notice and I've never known him to be anything but entirely honest. To my knowledge, Richie has never been…
We're a couple of years from another presidential election, but it's always political season in the U.S. Midterm primaries are coming and so is summer, so let's get things heated up by counting down the 44 hottest male presidents this great nation has had to offer. Do we like their politics? Who cares, when we can…
In the last few weeks, I've been interested in expanding things beyond compiling Depression Stories. There's a great deal of value in these stories, and I'm more than proud to tell them, but I don't want the good they're doing to end once there are no more stories in my inbox.
Three members of the University of Oregon basketball team have been suspended following a sexual assault investigation that resulted in the district attorney declining to press charges. The allegations are absolutely horrific.
Here in America, we have an interesting outlook on most things economic. We (as a nation) like to think of this as the land of opportunity, where the only thing separating the single mother working at Starbucks from Bill Gates is some good decision-making and a bunch of hard work. This is, of course, laughably naïve …
It's a rough world out there. There's war, famine, hate, and The Golden Girls isn't available streaming anywhere. But to listen to most millennials – yeah, I'm turning curmudgeon and putting it on us, millennials – there's a far more sinister scourge in the world, threatening to invade and destroy our livelihoods, or…
Riley McCanna, of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, took his own life on April 14th. He was 15 years old. Since then, his family, friends and community are working to make sure that people understand the reality of depression and how to ask for and find help.
First, I want to thank you for Depression Stories. No matter how much you learn about mental illness, or how much you may know intellectually that countless others are suffering from the same things, the nature of depression is so isolating, that when you read a first-hand account, that familiarity is striking. You…
I used to be able to pull myself out of it years ago. But as I've aged it's become increasingly difficult. I'm a single parent. I tried meds a few years ago but they didn't help much. I love my career. It keeps me sane and gives me a sense of accomplishment. But there are days when I can barely handle my life. On…
My freshman year of college was everything that I had hoped it would be. I had a scholarship to a decent, albeit unknown, liberal arts college. I made the Dean's list while taking upper-level classes. I made friends with people that I respected and were interesting, but also spontaneous and fun. I was one of three…
