I see myself as transcorporeal. This physical form is just an affectation of biological circumstance. I really identify as a ghost.

Could be she was bullied at school because she was bullied at home. Bullies sniff out and target underconfident people.

This. Suicide is a complex issue, and coverage of it has been - traditionally - as insensitive as the original remark. Kudos, Anna. More from the National Institute of Mental Health.

I was shocked how many commenters here loved that video of the dad shooting his daughter’s laptop after going on a 5 minute screed about how awful she is. That shit was twisted and violent.

Nope. Best practices for suicide reporting recommend not using “committed,” which sounds like a crime or, to religious communities, like a sin, and “kill yourself” is just insensitive, crude, and poorly phrased. “Died by suicide” is the phrasing recommended by mental health professionals and the American Foundation…

No, fuck that. There’s horror stories like this all over the news and internet these days. With all the resources at our command these days, I have very little tolerance for parents who would do this kind of shit.

My mom did that shit to me when I was a kid, on top of all sorts of other things. I’d come home to military school catalogs on the kitchen table. My heart breaks for this girl.

This shit that parents do is straight-up abuse. There’s no other word for it. All sorts of people will come out of the woodwork to, if not defend this dad (because the outcome is undeniably tragic), defend other parents who do other shaming forms of punishment, like make their kids stand on busy street corners with…

That is some disturbing shit.

That is what he wanted. To give her a hard time and put her on the spot. He knew she could be mocked and embarrassed at school. This is taking emotional abuse to the extreme.

She might be funny, but she’s funny in that way when you laugh uncomfortably at an acquaintance when they make an off-color joke. In that, this wasn’t actually funny, it was weird, and weirdly nasty. Lots of Cool Girl-isms, etc in this piece.

Haha! That sounds sooo scary. I'm gonna stick with my house cats. Sometimes they try to kill me but so far they've been very bad at it.

I have a tiger rescue center nearby, and you can do a tour in the twilight during the summer months, and the tigers and other big cats are pretty active. Nothing quite gets the hairs on the back of your neck up like realizing that the tiger is watching you. And only you.

I'll take 'Last thing the White Witch saw for 1000 Alex"

Holy goddamn shit. It's easy to look at lions and not fear them, we're mostly so disconnected and at a safe distance. When most of our images are of them at rest, lounging about, like a feline Buddah, it's easy to forget how utterly fearsome they are. But this image, it's spectacular. That's a creature to be feared…

Which lion face are you looking at?!

Disagree. Lion's face is full on "GTFO I KILL YOU NOW!" There is 0% "friendly" going on here.

I think you're supposed your hands up, act timid and say "I am not resisting arrest."

The second coming was a much more intense experience in Narnia.