Having lost 150 pounds and regained most of it, I’ve learned a few things about those that make the gym a religion. First of all, no matter what they looked like before, they will start to fat shame after the first 10lbs is off (“obesity doesn’t run in your family. The problem is no one runs in your family hardee har…

That’s not how we define mental illness and it’s not helpful. Maybe if we lived in a world where we accepted that mental health is like physical health and no one is 100% healthy all the time, then we could say things like “murdering people is a sign of mental illness” but we don’t. We live in a world where “mentally…

That’s not the argument. The argument is that white people can make crappy versions of black music and be successful, when talented black musicians would never get that radio play. Because white people find black music more palatable when it’s washed down by mediocre white people apparently. See: Meagan Trainor,…

Beat you, lock you up, sexually assault you, force you to work 18 hours a day instead of 12.

Oh, I see. We sent her there because she was smoking cigs in the parking lot and breaking curfew, not because she's a scissor sister!

They’d probably beat the shit out of you. They’d probably keep you locked up all by yourself for days on end. But yeah, easy being a tough guy when you’re typing away from the safety of your computer.

Considering what these places consider “treatment”? Torture. They’d torture you.

I’m certain the legal process they’re referring to is an attempt to emancipate her.

I would assume if the court rules that she can’t be kept at the “camp,” she would have grounds for emancipation from her parents. Hopefully they raise enough money that she can be set up sans asshole parents for a bit.