I still wasn't very good at it at 27. It takes practice at the best of times, and dealing with a sexually aggressive semi-famous guy is not what I would call the best of times.

Ironic, that the Greens would not be so green... *sigh*

Yeah...I agree with the 50 Shades parallel being a red flag, but no need to knock on 50 year olds.

The _correct_ way? Heaven forfend.

Jesus. I hope your daughter doesn't emulate her friend.

The best lies are half-truth, as the saying goes...

Could be both. "She's too young to be trustworthy, and look at the tail I can pull." Ugh, I feel gross just typing that :/

Didn't she used to be a Tory advisor?

I don't think it's about older women needing ego cookies at all. When I was 20, I did not have the spine to stand up against a guy who was abusive to me. I shudder to think what I would have accepted had he been semi-famous. Obviously #notallwomen, but it's not easy when you're younger and still figuring shit out to…

"She found sympathetic ears"...they were just lying on the ground, near the subway station. It was a really lucky score.

Yyyyyeah...fuck Amanda Palmer. She's shown her ass a number of times in recent years and I cannot believe that people still hold her up as someone to follow. She's not.

Oh man, yes. It's great to see his claim disassembled by someone who clearly understands kink. Thank you for sharing this link!

To my understanding Robert Kirkman wanted to make sure that the comics and the show weren't identical, because it'd get boring, so he had the writers go in some pretty different directions after the first season. The whole thing about going to Atlanta and the scientist blowing up the building didn't happen in the…

Starring for "martyrbation". Awesome portmanteau.

The tainted meat may be a bit of a holdover from the comics...iirc, the comic never said anything about everyone essentially being a ticking time bomb of walkerhood. But that scene was awesome in the comics. I cheered—yeah, you ate the guy and he's screwed, but so are you, sucker!

Oh damn. That is a really bad attitude to have. Better to be alone :(

Not the fault of the diamond that the guy was a lump of coal ;)

I'm sorry for your loss. I can't imagine losing a partner.

I was engaged to an abusive guy who had given me his grandmother's ring. It was a beautiful ring with a lovely history of a 40 year marriage behind it, and when I finally got up the nerve to end the relationship, it was difficult to give it back because I knew he was just going to pawn it like he had most everything…

Sorry, eh. Sometimes, we fuck it up proper.