I’d be worried about the performance of the rich kids whose parents hovered over every homework assignment, paid for special tutors and coaches at every turn and hired consultants for the college application process to get them into schools that would be beyond their reach.

Yes. I have listened to every episode of this, I first heard it when I was 17 oh so many years ago. “Petty Tyrant” is an amazing story, and “The Problem We All Live With” made me physically upset while I was listening to it.

You’re either severely dense or just disingenuous. If the partner goes along with it because they feel they have to in order to get their partner to leave them alone, it’s up to them how they feel about it. If they’re not thoroughly convinced but don’t care one way or the other, then they’re giving non-verbal but not…

Trying to get your partner in the mood =/= putting pressure on them. If it is, you’re doing it wrong. Getting your partner in the mood is called foreplay - touching, kissing, stroking, teasing or whatever and it can start before you’re even in bed. If they’re not responsive and you keep going anyway, then you’re 1)…

Except not every teenage boy has to pressure a girl into having sex. If you even remotely think that pressuring someone into having sex is normal or acceptable, maybe you need to take a step back and reconsider your life choices.

This is backed up by several research studies into self-awareness of rapists. Apparently, rapists will admit they are rapists as long as the word isn’t used in the questioning e.g ‘Have you ever had sexual intercourse with someone who did not want you to because they were too intoxicated to resist?’. Disturbingly,…

Well, duh. Rape is bad, rapists are bad, they call their mom on Mother’s Day, so they’re not bad, ergo what they do is not rape. /sarcasm

Thank you. I’m still working towards divorce, but I will get there.

That’s exactly what my rapist did. I tried to push him off me, but stopped struggling when he said he liked it. Months later, I told him he had raped me, and he told me he “didn’t see it that way.” He still has no idea why I’m so angry, or why I was so relieved when he finally said he wanted to divorce. He expected me…

I genuinely believe a lot of men/boys put “what I do” and rape into two different categories. Their idea of rape is so narrow that it’s easy to avoid wearing a ski mask and jumping a stranger in a dark alley. So whatever they’re doing isn’t rape! Add that to the whole cultural mix where we treat women’s bodies as…

I asked my coworker, Tim Brady, what he thought about Trump and his plans for Muslims, and he told me to get the fuck out of his cubicle. Also I’m not a reporter. Can I still have $100?

It needs a nickname, for sure. I predict he ends up being Stan (only in my dreams where a Kardashian grows up to be middle management at an Inland Empire office furniture distributor. I have strange dreams)

I can buy that the mom is frustrated, but I think taking it to Dear Prudie and bringing in threats is a bit past the line. They’ll probably both learn to develop a relationship that works for the two of them after the daughter gets used to living on her own. I’m guessing it will go more smoothly if the mom backs off a…

I agree - this post is way over the top. Barring some dysfunctional family backstory, the adult child owes the parents polite behavior (returning calls, being nice) just as much as the parents owe the adult child polite behavior. Unless the adult child wants to break away from her parents entirely - including…

I don’t know the situation but I think you are reading a lot into this. It sounds like a frustrated mom dealing with a major transition period in the relationship. The rest is just projection. Eta: and to add, young people also have to learn to have a relationship as an adult with their parents. It’s usually a mutual…

I went to Comic-Con, and waited in line to take a picture with her, and she had this pup with her then too! She was just so kind and sweet, she held my hand! and when she thought the photo didn’t turn out well, she asked the picture people to take a second one, and she was right, the first photo I had my eyes closed.…

I agree. I figured out some of his tweets that were posted here a while back saying random things were the first lines of every movie he’s done. Then he did allmymovies. This is probably some other artsy crap.

But what about this is adolescent and why? Do you think adults don’t feel the see emo feels or is it about the representation? Maybe older people feel this way but they’re not allowed to exhibit it or it’s not “cool” to?

I think he’s misspelling “sole,” which would give his request a whole new meaning.

and pretty sure they created a federal registry for big fertilizer purchases after OKC bombing.